Anish's Insight

For a scientific researcher it is always advisable to differentiate their job from other fixed patterned jobs such as banking, accounting, corporate managing, marketing etc. Their job is researching, which always deals with the fundamental rules of the nature. From the very starting of a research carrier it should always be remembered by a researcher that what he/she will be doing as a job will be modulated by some universal regulations nature created. Actually research is nothing but discovering and applying the rule of the nature, which is called science. Therefore, learning is the most important part of this carrier. I am not saying that other jobs do not need learning skills, of course they do, but for a researcher sometimes learning is the only job for which he/she is getting paid. A researcher learns from the nature through experimenting and analyzing the data and teaches the world through a research article, through a talk or through teaching in the classroom. Hence, a researche...

  Talks about money: a social taboo ‘Talking about finance is not suitable for an academician’ or ‘You are an academician, why should you talk about a shallow topic like money?” Did you ever hear this kind of sentences from others, for examples, from your neighbors, friends or relatives? Did you ever notice snobbery of the so called educated or cultured people about talking finance?   Most of us born and brought up in a society or family where talking on money or finance are always a taboo. During our childhood or teenage most of us experience that adults or our guardians do not talk about financial matters in front of us, as that is a distasteful matter to destroy the child’s mentality, while the truth is something different. It is always the biggest matter to talk about money or finance since it connects everything we have or want to have including our home, food, education, job, marriage, parenthood, retirement and even death. You can connect finance with all the object...

  Patience is the greatest policy.  If you sow a seed of mango in the soil how much time it will take to grow the mango tree to harvest the ripen mango? You will say ‘a long time…may be one year, may be two years, and may be more than that.’   That depends on how much effort you are putting to nurture the seedling. Success in every field of life is just like that. For cultivating a good quality mango tree in order to harvest good quality of mangoes needs good quality of soil, sufficient water, sufficient care and above all ‘patience’. If someone will ask me ‘what is the greatest policy of human being according to you?’, without spending a second I must reply ‘patience’. I shall not say ‘honesty’ because according to me if you lose patience, in a certain point you will also lose honesty, as to make the thing unnecessarily faster you may be attracted to do some tricks, which may not be the honest way. Therefore, patience and honesty are strongly correlated. This is also...

       Statistical analysis is not only for statistician but for every researcher. Science always deals with the truth or facts and truth can be revealed only if adequate amount of information is available. Now, it is not always necessary that all the information you acquire are needed to be true. Then how will you decide that whether the information you get is true or not? Here, knowledge of statistics comes. Statistics can obviously help you to identify truth and falsity. In science, information is popularly known as ‘Data’. With experiments you may collect sufficient amount of data, but it is also important to be alert and accurate during collection of the data. I have already discussed on this topic of data collection in a separate article titled ‘How to Manage Data to Manage Your Scientific Career?” in this blog. You may read it if you intend. In brief, maintaining the purity in data collection is very important if you really want to uncover the truth throug...