Former Governor of West Bengal Gopalakrishna Gandhi paid rich tributes to the late neurologist Krishnamoorthy Srinivas at the Buddhi Immersion 2017, a workshop on the Brain, Mind and Integrative Medicine, held in the city on Friday. Mr. Gandhi said Dr. Srinivas had a microchip of a memory with a giga byte voltage containing everything in tight configuration and it could be unravelled at the slightest touch. Dr. Srinivas had the knack to describe an event, relate an episode or explain a phenomenon with sparkling clarity.
Mr. Gandhi said, “If you had to mention a name but were struggling, he (Dr. Srinivas) would complete the name, the background, ancestry, the signs of the zodiac, the traits of personality, the foils and foibles and it was only his highest professional rectitude which kept him from further going into the person’s medical history.”
Mr. Gandhi recalled a pertinent conversation with Dr. Srinivas about old age and the reasons for forgetfulness wherein he said the main reason for one to forget was not that they had forgotten but they did not choose to remember, which meant they did not register with due care what was being said to them.
Book released
“Dr. Srinivas said that if only they had registered it with due attention, they would not have experienced what seems to be the case of forgetfulness. So if you are interested in something, you are not likely to forget,” Mr. Gandhi recalled. He released the book ‘Autism: The Buddhi Book’ written by Ennapadam K. Krishnamoorthy and Subbulakshmy Natarajan on the occasion.
B.N. Gangadhar, director of NIMHANS, delivering the Dr. Krishnamoorthy Srinivas Lecture 2017, talked on the subject ‘Yoga for Integrative Mental Health: Neurobiological Evidence’.
