Nikola Tesla - The unsung HERO

I love to teach electromagnetism and I teach it fairly well (or so do I think (?)). When I reach a section of introducing Electro-Magnetic Induction (EMI - as it is popularly known at HSC level) and when I start talking about DC and AC - EVERY TIME and I mean EVERY TIME - I have goose bumps when I talk about that great Serbian-American GEEK called Nikola Tesla. I still feel he should be talked about from school days. Films should be shown. He is in the league of extraordinary gentlemen (READ PHYSICISTS) who probably has NOT got his due in the history of science - or may be the masses do not know him as they do the likes of Sir Issac Newton and Albert Einstein. The guy was a GENIUS. I would rate him among the top in the pantheon of physicists - at par with the likes of Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell. The IDEAS he proposed changed the way we live. Many of those were probably ahead of time - IDEAS whose time probably had not come.

The web is filled with information about him so I would not copy/paste the information about him here.
Here are two sites you might want to go through to get a first feel about the MAN HIMSELF.

Website: 1. Nikola Tesla
                2.Things you didn't know about Nikola Tesla

There is a wonderful documentary by the BBC which you SHOULD WATCH
WebSite: 1. The Story of Electricity

The story of electricity Part - 2 tells us about the great war of currents fought between Thomas Edison and Westinghouse (Tesla). It is an amazing/chilling story of the two great men at war.

The story also reveals the human side of Tesla when in order to help Westinghouse, Tesla sells his shares. Tesla died in a hotel room in New York. A tragic death.

But HE continues to live with us through the GENIUS of his inventions. All the students of science must know his history and his GENIUS.

Even if one of the students reads the articles and watches the film and gets informed, I have done my job in spreading the gospel about the MAN - NIKOLA TESLA.

Knowledge Sharing

Date: 31 March, 2017, Friday
Place: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Time: 23:20 Hrs

Where do I begin? The title of the blog is "Knowledge Sharing" . First thought. Title appears esoteric. hmmm....

What is Knowledge? I am thinking. Zillion thoughts come and go. Is knowledge a positive realization of ignorance? Is it the process of perpetual learning?  Is it the experience one gains while living on this planet earth? Or is it certificate given by the system as a quality check for having attended (?) certain lectures  (of the so called teachers) for a fixed period of time and clearing - some thing called EXAM - so that society recognizes you as respected person.

I do not know. Its a personal choice. The idea of knowledge just keeps on narrowing and becomes more and more suffocating when you start discussing it in the context of certain regions of the world - in this case India, Maharashtra, Pune.

To me knowledge is positive realization of ignorance. I learn, grow as a person every single day. Its all about liking what I do and do what I like. Learn and teach and share.

Holy COW Ninad!!! What about Money? That is the crux. The crap I gave - Will it give me money? Monies is the essence of life. It gives me "the" choice. TRUE. We dive into a deeper question - Are we learning to earn money or to be happy to gain knowledge. Personal choice again. But the experience that I have had tells me that if one enjoys what one does then money follows. Philosophical CRAP!!! Yeah.... But that is my experience. As a young blood I didn't believe it either when my GOD mother Mrs. Hemalata Honwad told me.I started believing it when I started doing what I really love - TEACHING. And many things followed or are following.

I, of course had to pass through the process - Buddhist teaching or learning process - if you want to call it that way. But yeah.... it has been a fantastic journey. Academics is the area I want to live, breathe and die for.

I have had the fortune of meeting and befriending some of the best young minds till date. Vaishnavi, Kunal, Trupti, Sharvi, Rohan, Sonali, Maitreyi, Manasi, Shivani, Ronak, Rohit, Adeesh, Raj, Akshay, Warke and the list goes on.......Amazing SOULS.....Learning from them...Sharing my knowledge....growing with every lecture....

I look forward to many more - the likes of Manas, Ishan, Swarangi, Sharwari......

I want to learn more and share my knowledge with all humility.

Cheers to LearnAc.

Hello World !!

Welcome to my blog. To begin with, I do not intend to distribute "GYAN" here. I would honestly like to share my experiences, pieces of information and knowledge that I gain on a daily basis as I teach in the classroom. Some anecdotes are worth sharing.

The things that I share will not be bounded by topics related to physics. This would be a very general blog.

So here's the first thought that's coming my way. I am remembering a poem by Dr. Hariwanshrai Bacchan.

अग्निपथ

अग्निपथ, अग्निपथ, अग्निपथ,

वृक्ष हो भले घने, हो घने, हो बड़े,

एक पत छाँव की मांग मत, मांग मत, मांग मत,

अग्निपथ, अग्निपथ, अग्निपथ

तू ना थकेगा कभी, तू ना थमेगा कभी, तू ना मुडेगा कभी,

कर शपथ, कर शपथ, कर शपथ,

अग्निपथ, अग्निपथ, अग्निपथ

यह महान दृश्य है, चल रहा मनुष्य है,

आश्रू श्वेत रक्त से लथपथ, लथपथ, लथपथ,

अग्निपथ, अग्निपथ, अग्निपथ