Nerves run high as chords strike a melody
Blood runs wild in my net of veins weary
The will is high but the view is empty
At heights low, giddy makes me my envy.
Sights set on the peak the end is in sight,
In this moment of mayhem never mind
The stakes soar with a furl of the foresight
Urging me into an epic spellbind.
The boundaries blur and go undefined
Praise be, the sunlight is not colour-blind,
The quest is a part of the mastermind
Which grapples for shades of truths in a grind.
Time must tread the road to the destiny
On the way are plagues and scrutiny,
But the piety and deeds are heavenly,
Pure is the mind, reign will the melody.
Pramod Rastogi obtained his M.Tech from the IIT Delhi, and his Ph.D. from the University of Besançon in France. He is an Emeritus Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He has authored over 180 scientific papers in archival scientific journals and has edited/authored nine books in the field of science and engineering with international publishers such as IOP, John Wiley, Elsevier, Artech-House, Springer Verlag, and CRC Press.
Professor Rastogi is a Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is the 2014 recipient of the SPIE Dennis Gabor Award. He is a Fellow of the SPIE and a Fellow of the OSA. He was the Editor-in-chief of the international peer-review journal, “Optics and Lasers in Engineering” between 1999 and 2019.