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Education is not just preparing for life; education is life itself. Being an educationist for more than three decades, my main objective in life has been developing novel methods and skills of teaching. Education should focus on developing physical, mental and spiritual facades of an individual. I constantly kept on experimenting, improving and redesigning my teaching methods; sometimes failing and sometimes succeeding. Soon after completing my Post Graduation in Botany from Mysore University, I joined St. Joseph’s College (Now called St. Joseph’s University) Bengaluru in 1990 and since then I am working in the same college as an Associate Professor. Fortunately, I had the opportunity to work with knowledgeable people like Late Rev. Fr. Cecil Saldanha, blessings of holy men, support of all my principals and a fostering environment at St. Joseph’s College. I am teaching botany, bioinformatics, and biostatistics at both UG and PG levels. Working as a teacher is not just a job for me. It’s a passion, it’s a pleasure, it’s desire and it’s a choice. My maxim has been “Create, Motivate and Educate”. I have been involved in the creation of good educational content in order to motivate and educate the youth of the world. There are more than 450 educational videos on my channel. In my experiments with education, St. Joseph’s College has been my laboratory and my students have been my subjects. Besides teaching I also had the opportunity to serve as an NCC officer of the 1-Karnataka Armoured Squadron from 1994 to 1996. I was also the President of St. Joseph’s Trekking and Adventure Club, Students Welfare Officer, President of Natural Science Association and Coordinator of Associations. Government of India appointed me as the member of Nehru Yuva Kendra. With a passion to discover more about the education system, I enrolled for a Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education in Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. I carried out my research at Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) under Dr. Devinder Prakash and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru. I worked with Dr. C.S. Vaidyanathan at the Biochemistry department in IISc. My Ph. D degree on In Vitro Morphogenetic Studies on Orchids was awarded in 2002 by the Bangalore University. Eminent scholar and the former Registrar of Bangalore University, Dr. R. M. Ranganath was my guide. I collaborated with Wageningen University, the Netherlands through Centre for Life Technologies for research in Gene Cloning and Bioinformatics. I was responsible as the coordinator for starting St. Joseph’s Institute of Gene Technology in association with Wageningen University at St. Joseph’s College in 2002. Dr. Von Don Boss, the then President of Wageningen University had come to St. Joseph’s College for launching the joint programmes. I have been recognised as a Ph. D guide by, Bangalore, Bangalore City, Bharathidasan, Bharathiar and MAHE Universities. I have so far successfully guided four Ph. D scholars. I am currently doing research on Plant tissue culture, Plant-based drugs and Bioinformatics. My quest for learning never ends. I completed a course on Schizophrenia from Wesleyan University, USA. I also studied Psychology from Yale University, USA in 2022. But my best teachers have been the nature and my students. Every day I have been learning something or other from them. There is no end or limit for learning in life. It is God who armed me with strength, kept my way secure and he made my way perfect.
