Daily writing is a hobby and habit .It
developed as a result of daily reading of the English newspaper --(mostly “The Hindu”
and “The Indian Express”two wonderful newspapers of south India )-- for last sixty years or more in our family.
It helped me to develop taste for good English and interest in global news.
There is another type of reading habit in me.
It is reading of college and high school
text books of physical sciences (in a
glancing manner) and also reading journals of science and technology. Reading science books is like an unquenchable thirst in me . My interest in physics and
chemistry was so intense. Though a
physics graduate I joined a commercial accounting job in government with a vague plan that I would change to a
science job after an year. But I continued in it for three and half decades .My choosing a
commercial job did immense good to me.
(a) It brought me greatest happiness
in my personal life
(b)I could serve the simple adorable rural
folks of India (living examples of our great Ramayan-Mahabharath culture)
( c ) I could also acquire the best
of friendships only in my commercial job and could grow from the state of a
bookworm to state of an alert world citizen.
My interest in science only deepened
tenfold though I stayed in the non-science job. I decided I should become a popular science writer and started perfecting my science knowledge
by glancing through every page of college physics and chemistry text books and reading
the wonderful science articles in online encyclopedias written by erudite
university proffessors .I felt really thrilled as if joined an international
science university of the air or university of Internet.
In science it is really no glancing but
quite detailed and repeated reading. Since I was not reading for any
examination I read leisurely. I purchased fine college text books on Earth Science
, Electronics and Computer science, Industrial Chemistry, Newtonian Mechanics, Nuclear
Physics etc and went through almost every page of them . I purchased Indian reprints
of some great popular science paperbacks of USA.I purchased Indian reprints of
some famed American university text books in physics,earth science and
electronics,some great Indian college science books written in simple style by celebrated
Indian proffessors . I also purchased intermediate level books on physics, chemistry
and mathematics now followed in India by hundreds of thousands of students. Now and then I enjoyed copying “worked
out examples” of Physics and Higher Mathematics
. soon I purchased Desktop Micro computer,
created small science articles and “uploaded” to Internet and was thrilled to
see them published in the Net .
l learnt a little of C language (all
by myself because I was a physics graduate) and copied some”worked out”programs
from standard text books and saw them appear in the blue screens of C. I always
enjoy detailed reading of Physics and Chemistry
theories bypassing the mathematical work.I also greatly enjoy reading the basic theories of modern electronic computers.I wonder at the vast
achievements of science in every field.
I read science (mainly physics and
chemistry of John Dalton times) and also enjoy reading simple articles on philosophy(
both Western and Eastern) from the
poetic and art angle. I also have great
interest in world geography, old English literature etc.To cut my narration
short, I may say that my interest is
only in old physics and chemistry of pre –electronics and pre-Ein stein days.
This is to make my popular science articles very simple thatcan be read by a
general enthusiastic reader. So my articles are generally about
----old thermometers, barometers, telescopes, Bunsen
burners, calorimeters, concave and convex lenses ,spectrometers, Acids, Hydroxides
and Salts and litmus papers
---- fundamentals of organic
chemistry , simple theories of old respected John Dalton, Avagadro,Joseph Priestly
You are very much interested in learning new things and your english language is laudable.
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU,SIR.
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