Looking Back

Abstract

My entry to the professional world of academics was more of straying into it when I had been trying to find a suitable profession where I could spend my life without boredom. Continuing studies till Ph.D. was partly due to inertia and partly due to the enjoyment of a carefree student life. After completing Ph.D. only two options were available – joining research laboratories or higher academic institutions of teaching and research. Initially, I joined research laboratories and soon I was tired of listening everyday to the frustrations of my colleagues and their dissatisfaction with their bosses. The possibility of spending my life in such an environment started to haunt me and I was afraid to become one of them eventually. I decided to jump out of it and join the academic world of higher education. I got fascinated by this environment, which has an ever-changing component of student community, which helps one to remain young in mind. The academic world also has its share of negativities. But one has the freedom of creating an insulated space where you may do your academic work happily along with your students and collaborators and build a barrier outside