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Growing up in a traditional Indian household, it was constantly reinforced that studying the sciences was cardinal to success in the future; anything else was dismissed as nugatory. As a result, I would often skip art, music or theater class and in consequence of nurture, I became fascinated with one subject in particular: Mathematics. Like most, my parents’ dream for me was to get the best education possible. Alas! One prerequisite was to get into a good university, and in this new age, good grades were no longer sufficient. Fortunately, my mother realized this early and enrolled me in a local college to learn one type of art of my choosing. As an avid fan of the popular show “Dragon Ball Z”, I hastily picked graphic design and began learning Adobe, only to later master the craft. Figure 1. Some of my graphic design works. Interestingly, artists and scientists are said to have a “curious distorted image of each another” characterized by “hostility and dislike” (Snow 4, 6). Indeed, gro...