Stepping out : London dreams
I realize that I can't think science in isolation from the world around, that is the society, to be precise. It has sometimes made me feel that maybe I'm not that good at science. In college, while I observed my peers continuously striving to talk about some difficult sum or concept, I felt poked inside what happens to the world and the people out there. I can never turn away from contextualizing everything I learn to things happening around me. It sometimes feels like an overwhelm not to be able to stick to just what I do as work. But then it is this exact thing that brings me happiness, that brings me joy. To be able to connect the dots which not many are connecting. This weekend, I could have just gone out to eat or for a day trip. Read say a few papers in my research area, watch Netflix, cook and prepare for the week and go back to work on Monday like an obedient student. But what I happened to do is travel to London to attend a panel discussion by the eminent historian Vij...