My name is Ram Bansal and I was born in 1948 and brought up in a family of fighters for freedom of India from British Empire. When I look for a single word for defining myself, word ‘experimenter’ appears to be the most appropriate based on my characteristics and activities. I have been playing many roles, many simultaneously, that form part of my biography.
Childhood, A sharp mind in an ailing body
This is what I was known in the beginning of my life. I suffered an acute small-pox in my childhood with survival with a frail body. Added to it, I had until the age of 12 years a bad habit of eating soils of different kinds that kept worms in my abdomen surviving and feeding on food I used to eat. Apart from this bad habit, I had been a disciplined boy with interest in my studies only. My memory had been very sharp and it remains reasonably good even at my present age of over 63 years. I had been an above-average student.
Adolescence, An Emotional Lover
At the age of 16 years, I was attracted to a girl, and we both called that connection a love affair and still do that, in-spite of the fact that I could never touch her. I got busy with my education and she was married to someone else. This relationship made a deep void in my personality with a deep-rooted desire for loving and being loved. That void still exists as I never got that sort of love from anyone. I don’t know whether this desire shall go off with my death, or I will find someone with a matching desire before my death.
Boyhood, A Brilliant Student
I have been a sharp student but my involvements in so many things never took me to the top of studentship except in childhood when diversions had been minimal. Still, I am satisfied that I did well and achieved whatever I wanted in the field of my education. I consider myself still a student, and devote my considerable time and other resources to get me educated more and more.
Here, I need to confess my greatest weakness, that of non-participation in any game or sport, which I consider important for developing physical skills. I lack in physical skills usually found in capable persons. This I compensate by my unusual intellect.
Blooming Youth, An Aggressive Engineer
I had been a very successful Engineer with deep interest in the subject and profession and had a fairly good career in this field enviable to many of my friends – reaching the level of Chief Engineer in 10 years of employment. I used to feel proud of myself when some of my colleagues used to consult me on engineering problems not directly related to my jurisdiction or my field of study – Electrical Engineering.
I consider my period of Engineering studentship at University of Roorkee (now an IIT) as an opportunity to grow physically and intellectually in a highly healthy envirinment
Outlook about Money, A Poor Marketer
I endeavored in the field of business but miserably failed for my inapt handling of marketing needs of the world too much corrupted with money-mindedness at all costs. I flopped as a business-person.
My poor marketing skill has its genesis in my not giving much importance to earning and accumulating wealth as a status symbol as many of friends, family members and relations do and keep on asking me to do the same. I consider money to be important in life to the point of meeting daily needs and necessities. Beyond this point, money becomes a burden in itself and diversion from intellectualism.
For my never having more than enough money under my control, I live a modest life with minimum possessions, modern facilities and comforts. Still I feel contentment with this lifestyle of mine. This has affected my way of working. In 1993, when personal computers got developed and began to sweep the intellectual world into its fold, I too wanted to have computer which was beyond my available means. So, I went to a bookshop, purchased a book on computer hardware, studied it, went to computer market, purchased computer hardware components with minimum configuration, assembled them at home, and began using and learning more about computers. Since then, computer has been my best friend and a utility.
Purpose of Life, A Researcher
During my education and later studies, I learned that many well-known scientific theories and concepts are proved wrong by later researchers with new propositions. Due to this, I treat every scientific and engineering theory with doubt and try to establish some improved versions of these. This made me a life-long researcher in every topic I deal with.
I am of the opinion that the Earth instead of orbiting around the Sun is jumping up and down between two positions in space, with this new geometry explaining all related phenomena of weather changes and variation in day-night cycles are very well satisfied.
Current theory of visibility of things through reflected light from their surfaces reaching the viewer’s eyes is also proved wrong by me. Similarly, I have proposed a new geometry for formation of images in a mirror.
I researched for 8 long years on spirituality theories and practices and concluded that all such things are psychological games played by cunning persons as their businesses on innocent persons to misguide them. These researches made me a determined atheist.
What I Love, Authorship
I am less a ‘writer’ more an ‘author’, as I write only my original ideas after a lot of research and pondering over the matters dealt by my writings. Of course, I do write books on Engineering and Computer Sciences, as a writer to earn my livelihood.
After my full growth and finishing my academic education, my most favorite subject of study and authorship has been psychology on which I write articles and publish them online. It gives me a boost to my quest when I find that my writings are liked by readers. I like my professional subject of study – Engineering, but its practice is blocked now for my living in a village. Still, I keep on writing books on Engineering for print media. 
Both these moves of mine were very close to be suicidal and surely weakened me with great difficulties in recovering back to my normal state of full of courage and enthusiasm for living happily in my own ways without bothering for others opinion. These experiences educated me to accord top priority to my own health above everything else in the world. 
