Thread by @ProfSomashekhar

Thank you @DrBinoyVShah for the post. We are all thankful to many for guiding us in our career. These relationships are wonderful and develop over time. I have had the benefit of many and everyone guides you in different ways.1/n

https://twitter.com/drbinoyvshah/status/1391827327001120770

We all remember our school teachers. Many who took time out to teach from regular schedules. I remember visiting Prof Ganihar many Sunday for class at his house (not paid tuitions) - used to have 🥗. Then we had many mentors in med school including seniors. 2/n

Some mentors have connected throughout and i still keep in touch with them. Academically and Professionally I have done much better than my mentors and many of my mentees have already done better than me. As my mentors are proud of me, so am i proud of my mentees. 3/n

Then there are those who connect with you for a short time but influence you tremendously. Spent just a few months at SGPGI lucknow but that has influenced my thinking process immensely. My zeal to include students on research projects comes from Prof Amita 4/n

We continue to have mentors in later life who continue to influence you and show you the right path. Their success lies in being free and frank with you. Since 2009, 2010; two have been instrumental in my career trajectory. @naveenthacker & Dr Rohit Vasa. 5/n

There have been many friends who continue to help (we don’t think of them as mentors but many times they are) but some of the people who actually change you are the mentees themselves. Hence often it is called a teaching learning process. 6/n

I am grateful for the many who consider me their mentor and over the years have become great friends. It takes a village to raise a child and similarly it takes many mentors to mentor a mentee. Attended Dr Gautham lecture quite a few times and his second slide is always this. 7/n

I must acknowledge that the ecosystem that allows this to flourish is important. I have seen many students who are bitter about their colleges. Also philosophies have to match and I may not be a great mentor to others. Maybe even disliked. But that is ok. I have a advantage. 8/n

Being a pediatrician, patience comes with the territory and one becomes nonjudgmental and forgiving. Nurturing is part of the process. Travel and interactions help immensely and so does reading widely (and nowadays being on SM). I am rarely nostalgic about old days. 9/n

I believe change is permanent and look forward to the future. If our younger generation is not better than us, how will progress happen? I cannot be jealous of young achievers as that is our achievement. Prof Kalam said it quite well. His faith in young ones was legendary. 10/n

The mentor-mentee relationship is essentially the ⭕️ of life. While the concepts seem western, we always had the Gurukul system in India where the pupils went to forests and learnt under gurus. Dadaji Kondev, Saint Ramdas as Gurus of Shivaji changed course of history.11/n End ✌️