Quest For Knowledge

This interview featured in the In Vivo magazine, an in house magazine published annually by the Department of Bioengineering in SASTRA Deemed University. I was in my final year of integrated Masters in Medical Nanotechnology, when my juniors approached me for this interview. I hope I did some justice to the honour bestowed upon me. Do let me know in the comments!  The link to the magazine can be found here .    1. You are right now working on systems biology. What would you say, are your areas of interest along with it? My areas of interest lie in an interwoven web spun by evolution, development of organisms and the study of holistic interactions that occur amongst them. There is a fascinating background behind my motivation to work in these areas. It started with this book written by Dan Brown named  Origin  which raised some interesting questions related to humans’ origin and evolution. A scientist in the plot comes up with a solution in the form of an algorit...

I never thought this would be something I admit in public, but I guess, the incidents that have the most impact in one’s life are unprecedented. So a brief introduction to me - I am a 22 year old Masters student, living what I consider to be a good life. I have all the reasons to be perfectly contented - I study something I actually like, have a beautiful family, and friends who are truly family. To an outsider, my life seems perfect. Hell, it should seem perfect to me. But there’s this saying in one of my most favourite Hindi movies  Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham , “When you look from the outside, all you see is happiness. But the closer you come, the harder will the unfulfillment hit you” So coming to the point - I have been diagnosed with depression and I have been taking antidepressants for over a year now. Countless times have I asked myself the question  Why?  It’s not a  Why me?  It’s more like a restlessness, a despair -  What happened that pushed me over...