Nobel prize winner weary of the flood of e-mails from India and the fantasies about his childhood!!!

Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan has expressed disenchantment with people from India"bothering" him "clogging" up his email box and dubbed as "strange" their sudden urge to reach out to him.

"All sorts of people from India have been writing to me, clogging up my email box. It takes me an hour or two to just remove their mails," he said.

He said the deluge of emails had buried important communications from colleagues or from journals concerning papers we have in press.

"Do these people have no consideration? It is OK to take pride in the event, but why bother me?" the 57-year-old Indian-American scientist wondered in an email interview to PTI. More...

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