In a million years, I could have never guessed that a career military man would be a match for me.

No sooner had I landed in Cairo after four long years of absence than I discovered my watch broke.

...feelings of failure are physical. I threw up my dinner that night, I could not stop crying, and my body would not stop trembling.

Failure in research is essential. If you fear failure it could distort the way you choose projects and ultimately impede science progress.

"As you are about to graduate from college and go into society, we’d like to give you some suggestions."

"Distress as we may be in, we should hold more firmly to our integrity and never abandon our lofty aspiration."

In February 2013, I participated in the World Soybean Research Conference in Durban, South Africa.

The three of us set off from Indore for a three-hour car trip to the ancient city of Maheshwar on the Narmada riverbank.

Idealists gather and scatter as their ideals would take them; opportunists come together but fall out during the fight for their own gain.

Why wasn’t the small plant afraid of the gale when the sturdy tree couldn’t withstand it?