Here I am, back. I apologize to my readers (again, if there exist any). In my second post, I said, “We now begin in earnest…” and promptly disappeared. Hope to catch up again. This summer has been interesting. For starters, I won the Shankar Subramaniam Award at the Systems Biology Consortium meeting held at Penn State. And boy did that come with money! A postdoc could wish for nothing more. And some research progress too! And everything mixed in with a job search.

Anyways, back to the business of the BLOG. I have been thinking for some time about inviting people from different countries to write about how they received science education, and what they think are the flaws and merits of their ‘system’. Ideally, I would like to present two opposite views about a system, but let me see what response I get first. I definitely know my fellow Indians will have a lot of say!

I have also been thinking for some time about tackling the elephant in the room- religion, the rise of creationism and attributing biological events to a divine power. Whatever religion you are, you know you have a couple of ‘those kind of people’ from your faith around. But of course, this will not be focus of this BLOG. There are plenty others that represent both sides of the argument (not that I believe there are two sides), and readers are free to make up their minds.

And finally, if you have suggestions or comments, do pass them on. I noticed that a lot of people have added me to their network; hopefully they might have something interesting to share!

Cheerio!