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One of the thousands of students I had the good luck to teach, Arunachalam Kumar was the best researcher who followed my advice that knowledge advances not by repeating known things but by refuting false dogmas.
He was a junior teacher in Anatomy, but the best, and the students loved him. Incidentally, he was labelled a poor student as he had failed in some MBBS subjects many times over! That was because he was a thinker and did not relish repeating known things, which is the hallmark of our learning and conventional science research based on grants, paper-writing and citation index — the usual yardsticks for teacher promotions in universities where the powers-that-be have no clue what research is. Dr. Kumar couldn’t care less. When I spotted his brilliance and promoted him there were some disgruntled voices. He was a non-conformist even in his personal life and marriage. He took life as a challenge and faced it.
He was a junior teacher in Anatomy, but the best, and the students loved him. Incidentally, he was labelled a poor student as he had failed in some MBBS subjects many times over! That was because he was a thinker and did not relish repeating known things, which is the hallmark of our learning and conventional science research based on grants, paper-writing and citation index — the usual yardsticks for teacher promotions in universities where the powers-that-be have no clue what research is. Dr. Kumar couldn’t care less. When I spotted his brilliance and promoted him there were some disgruntled voices. He was a non-conformist even in his personal life and marriage. He took life as a challenge and faced it.
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