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Us and Ourselves – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #584 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #584. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Long time back, I met a person who had published a collection of his poetry; regular, romantic kind. The gentleman himself was on the other side of middle-age, sported a long beard and was a religious person. I was young and brash (and stupid) and asked him why he was writing poetry because he did not even look like a poet. He calmly replied that first the person had to be good; only then he would be able to do good things, be it poetry or else. I had no reply to that. Today, we use the term ‘holistic’ in many situations. We say that the hiring process should be holistic, we say professional ...

Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #334 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Lucila Godoy Alcayaga   ( American Spanish:  [luˈsila ɣ oˈðoj alkaˈ ʝ a ɣ a] ; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957), known by her   pseudonym   Gabriela Mistral   ( Spanish:  [ɡaˈβɾjela misˈtɾal] ), was a   Chilean   poet-diplomat ,   educator   and   humanist . In 1945 she became   the first Latin American author   to receive a   Nobel Prize in Literature , “for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world”. Some central themes in her poems are nature, bet...