By Ambica Gulati

We are unable to memorize many things and get bogged down. But Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury can memorize everything in seconds. A record holder, he shares his tricks of the trade with all

Rrrr. Can't save! Panic. The disk has an error, its memory space is skipping.

The computer is down. Similarly small things slip out of our memory bank. Error? Lack of storage space? No. They are kept somewhere in the subconscious mind. Only we have not filed them in a systematic manner, claim the experts. With umpteen books and lots more on the net, solutions for memorizing are aplenty, especially during exams.

Here we take some memory tips from Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury, National Memory Record Holder in the Limca Book of Records. Chowdhury has also written two books on the subject—Dynamic Memory Methods and 7 Days to Power Memory, which includes an audiocassette to guide you. According to Chowdhury there is one way of remembering things—association.

From childhood we have been associating things. For instance a small child sees his father's face to call him papa. The conclusion: we are able to remember pictorial things more than abstract ones.

Let's start with the brain's two parts:

Left Brain Controls	Right Brain Rules
Logical thinking Calculation Sequencing	Fantasies Imagination Color

When both these work in harmony, a genius is born, states Mahesh Kapadia, another memory expert.