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Dr. Karan R. Aggarwala
My professional interests are ocular diagnostics and visual neurosciences for which I am qualified and experienced. My first poem was composed on a train journey from New York Penn Station to Chica...view moreMy professional interests are ocular diagnostics and visual neurosciences for which I am qualified and experienced. My first poem was composed on a train journey from New York Penn Station to Chicago by Amtrak; and is NOT documented.
Three poems that most influenced my psychic developmental process in pre-teenage years are: The Beggar Maid, The Road Less Traveled, and Ozymandias. Three popular books that most influenced me prior to age fifteen are: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Atlas Shrugged. Three painters that cast an early impression on me are: Michelangelo, Dali, and Vermeer. Three musicians that I most admired as a teenager are: Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and Paul McCartney. Three favored pastimes of childhood were: feeding sparrows on the roof, cycling on suburban backstreets, and star constellation gazing at Orion and the Big Dipper.
A note of gratitude is needed here. My father was born into an educated family of modest means, with Grandpa training in Europe and qualifying as member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. Any and all persons that knew my father at any stage of his life are acknowledged here.
Financing for my early developmental years came to father from companies such as Westinghouse Electric and Friedrich Air Conditioning, for which I have a natural gratitude. A Midwestern ethic coming from Grandpa’s collaborating with Dr. Grossman, filtering down to Dad is partly my own. Access to the World Book Encyclopedia and the National Geographic Magazine and the Time Life Scientific volumes and the Funk and Wagnall Dictionary were instrumental. Finally, access to the volumes of Will and Ariel Durant, would prove necessary for history of civilization.
Any and all persons that knew my mother and that knew stepmother are given my vote of thanks. Any persons connected by blood relation are precious to me.
The traditional profession practiced by the name Aggarwal would perhaps be considered bartering of food grains, oilseeds, spices, and textile manufacturing. Colonel Grandpa added the letter A at the end for better publishing visibility somewhere between completion of training in Europe {1924} and date of inclusion into the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons {on file}.
Karan’s parents lived in Columbus Ohio and San Antonio Texas and father almost always drove station wagons. Karan’s earliest memories of childhood are looking through the rear window of a Ford Motorcar Falcon model of the early 1970’s. Karan is an only child of his mother born in Texas, now residing In Virginia. Father had a previous wife born in India. Father ancestry has historic roots of Azerbaijan going back to a kingdom that ended around 750 BC.
Karan’s school education took place on both sides of the Atlantic waters. Although never attending Ivy League colleges, Dr Aggarwala was always directly involved with such high level research, teaching and scholarship: proof of such worthiness being employment offered by the US FDA, and qualifying for the National Research Service Award.view less