Interview with the Vice Chancellor
Prof. Dr. Faisal Masud
* Kemcol English Section
Sneak Peek *
Let
me cultivate you first: That reminds me of a Chinese proverb, “Once there were
five blind men who wanted to “experience” an elephant – having heard of one.
Reaching there they felt it, as best they could; One of them felt its leg, one
its tail, one its ears, one its trunk and last its abdomen. When they returned
they asked each other what the elephant was like.
The one who “saw” its leg
said it’s like a pillar, which felt the tail perceived it as a rope, the one
who got hold of his trunk reported it to be like a pipe, for the one who could
only manage his ear rightly thought of a winnowing fan (chagh) and so on. What
do you think – which one of the five is telling the truth? …
Sir, you talked about going beyond the
rules of reason but this world rests on logic and rationality. How to cope with
that?
This reminds me of a joke: Two English
men went to the pub after consuming pints of lager, flushed and inebriated they
started chatting. ‘John I was wondering last night that if earth is revolving
around the sun then why it doesn’t fall down’. Other said ‘well pretty relevant
question, I was thinking the same. Somebody told me that it is drifting on the
back of a big turtle’. ‘O great. But John, what is that great turtle standing
on’. ‘It is standing on another great turtle” ‘And by the way where is that
second turtle standing on’ ‘Silly, it is the turtles all the way down’ (laughter) …
Sir,
please give a comparative analysis of introvertism and extrovertism, the goods
and harms of each
I am not an introvert
person. But even if I somehow become an extrovert, I will not be able to
communicate properly with people – it has more to do with the reality in which
I live. In fact extrovertism and introvertism are the two extreme ends of a
single continuum. Socializing and being able to communicate well require
commonality of experience so we can engage each other - needless to say then,
you have to live in the same sphere of experience -Nothing good or bad about it …
Sir,
how would you establish the bridge between religious fundamentalism and
spirituality? ‘Betrayal by worldly love is the first step to divine love’, how
much do you believe in this?
One
may fall in love when one is an idiot. Remember falling in love is indeed a
“fall”…
Any message you would like
to give to your medical students as lovers of art and literature.
There is no real difference
between art and science. At a lower level they appear very divergent but go
higher and they merge together …
This was just a sneak peek
of the 4+ hours long session we had with our worthy Vice Chancellor.Read the
complete interview in English Section Kemcol 2013 !
