Dr Sugata Mitra retteling ​

Sugata Mitra (born 12 February 1952) is an Indian computer scientist and educational theorist. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education. He is Professor Emeritus at NIIT University, Rajasthan, India. A Ph.D. in theoretical physics, he retired in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England, after 13 years there including a year in 2012 as Visiting Professor at MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He won the TED Prize 2013.

After earning a PhD in Solid State Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, during which time he published several papers on organic semiconductors, he went on to research battery technology at the Centre for Energy Studies in the IIT, and later at the Technische Universität, Vienna. He published a paper on a zinc-chlorine battery and a speculative paper on why the human sense organs are located where they are.

He then worked setting up networked computers and created the "Yellow Pages" industry in India and Bangladesh.

Mitra's work at NIIT created the first curricula and pedagogy for that organisation, followed by years of research on learning styles, learning devices, several of them now patented, multimedia and new methods of learning. Since the 1970s, Professor Mitra's publications and work has resulted in training and development of perhaps a million young Indians, amongst them some of the poorest children in the world. Some of this work culminated in an interest in early literacy, and the Hole in the Wall experiments.

it’s a truth universally acknowledged that “it takes all sorts to make a world”, which means that all people are unique in their own way. what is more, we, as individuals, tend to have our own opinions about everything… fashion, lifestyles, scientific concepts are constantly changing due to people’s desire to express their opinions. the same goes for universal things like truth, friendship, hate, loyalty and, of course, love. the subject of love is one that has inspired poets, writers, those lucky in love and those who have been passed over by cupid… love has been defined as wise, silly, profound, bitter, funny… it seems as if each and one of us has a different understanding of love, or at least the attitude to love varies greatly from person to person. it may be a surprising revelation to some of us, because love has traditionally been considered to be something that unites people( at least that’s what i’ve been taught).and yet, there’s no use denying the fact that love has as many definitions as there are human beings on this planet. and it doesn’t necessarily mean that love no longer unites people. it just means that love has different dimensions, different sides that reflect our understanding of life. i’ve heard somebody say that “love is friendship set on fire”. to my mind, it’s a brilliant thought. i mean, the good thing about friendship is that it gives you a feeling of security. it’s like a pair of old shoes that you’ve worn for a long time, you get this feeling of comfort and coziness. and if “love is friendship set on fire”, then ,it seems to me, love is really worth living for. some cynics may say that love is something that makes one blind and prevents from thinking clearly. “to be in love is to be in the state of perceptual anesthesia”, some people claim. but personally, i can’t let myself be cynical about love. maybe i’m too young and inexperienced, but i believe it’s a great feeling. some say that love is the true meaning of our life, that love is all it’s cracked up to be. they also say that “love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness”. i can’t but agree. love is something that makes us tender, affectionate and caring. it’s when another person’s needs become more important than yours and you don’t see it as a burden. it’s when you do your best to make each other’s lives somewhat easier in this troublesome world. love is a feeling that makes you stronger and helps you get through a crisis. it’s something i can’t imagine my life without.