Roopa's own new book, From Leeches to Slug Glue: 25 Explosive Ideas that Made (and Are Making) Modern Medicine (Puffin) takes her back to the world of science, narrating the history of medicine for kids.
A computer engineer from Bengaluru, married to an IIT-IIM graduateand having travelled and lived around the world with him – from Delhi and Mumbai to New York, London and Orlando – the last thing Roopa Pai would have imagined in her youth was becoming an authority on the Bhagavad Gita, Vedas and Upanishads, and writing books about them.She dismisses modern-day debates on who the Aryans were. “How does it matter? Those who are secure about the truth have no need to argue. Studying the scriptures has changed me. It’s made me
A computer engineer from Bengaluru, married to an IIT-IIM graduateand having travelled and lived around the world with him – from Delhi and Mumbai to New York, London and Orlando – the last thing Roopa Pai would have imagined in her youth was becoming an authority on the Bhagavad Gita, Vedas and Upanishads, and writing books about them.She dismisses modern-day debates on who the Aryans were. “How does it matter? Those who are secure about the truth have no need to argue. Studying the scriptures has changed me. It’s made me
less judgemental, and more at peace with diverse ideas and viewpoints.
Instead, I keep asking myself,
Instead, I keep asking myself,
who am I?”
Mindfulness is a quality one must work on, avers Roopa,
but it is one that also comes with a caveat. “Yes, it’s empowering
to be aware of your actions, but it’s also terrifying because now
you must take responsibility for all the consequences as well,”
she explains.
but it is one that also comes with a caveat. “Yes, it’s empowering
to be aware of your actions, but it’s also terrifying because now
you must take responsibility for all the consequences as well,”
she explains.
Our religion is certainly not for the faint of heart.
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