Life has got multiple correct answers.
In mathematics, most problems have just one right answer. Life is very different, and far more complicated. Even when situations look more or less the same, the same question can have several answers, and all of them can be right. What is right or wrong depends on a person's own thinking and on what that person values most in life. This article shares a few examples of exactly that. (Photograph of Dr. Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar, courtesy the internet) Dr. Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar lived from 1884 to 1937. Through his own study and relentless effort, he brought out the *Dnyanakosh* — a vast series of reference volumes — and faced heavy criticism at times for it. He studied first in Amravati and then at Wilson College, Mumbai, before earning his PhD at Cornell University in the US. Back in India, he joined the University of Calcutta as a professor. In 1920, he married Edith Victoria Cohen, a German Jew. Miss Edith embraced Hindu religion and was give...