Hats off to Obaid Siddiqi for advancing neuroscience in India. I am glad to have worked in his lab during my formative years which honed my interest in science. Having said that, I also think Obaid has nicely shielded himself from the cut throat pace of modern science. His methods of doing science as as fashionable as using a rickety typewriter. Only coming out of his lab did I realize how different modern science is done compared to what Prof. Siddiqi thinks it is. Only in a country like India can a scientist thrive solely based on laurels achieved in the past. This comment may never see the light of the day