Do I understand my importance and also my importance in my subject

Good work is not done by humble men.It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of the subject and  his own importance in it.A man who is always asking,

"If what I do worthwhile? andAm I am the right person to do it" ? will always be ineffective himself and discouragement to others.Je must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve.

I exactly fit into this quote by G H Hardy and despite my sense of diffidence I have never questioned or underestimated my love and potential for my subject and my role in it, as  I am still in it at seventy plus.

To be honest my subject Economics has given me more than I deserve.

Post retirement wife's death, visit to Adelaide twice and post Adelaide stay at my home town I have remained active reading and writing .

It's not an exaggeration to say that I have captured the spirit of my Mahe stay, my first appointment as Assistant Professor and HOD, being a one man department.

The subject is making me hungry while it has adequately satisfied my hunger...

The pleasantest feeling is that the academic greed is refusing to die  and I pray that it will persist, albeit in modest doses, till I breathe last and help execute multiple projects I started long ago.

A few on line lectures are waiting in the wings and I hope God will enable me to fly with my academic wings in the arena of international finance..

(From my post Adelaide Pondicherry Diary)