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Year 10 - Happiness is the Path

Godyears begins year 10 this month end.

I was still an intern after passing my MBBS when I started this blog back in 2005. I had no idea if I would pass an entrance exam for a postgraduate seat, get into a good college, pass from thereor even be a good doctor.  Literally lakhs of words later, I am here: a consultant anaesthesiologist having done thousands of surgeries over the last 7 years, saving limbs and lives while always struggling to find a decent pair of scrubs that fit me.

The blo...

Tag 5 bloggers, ask their opinions and feed 'at least' 19,000 children for an entire year

Harry Potter and the students of Hogwarts defending the school against Voldemort's army at the end.Team Gandalf staying alive and distracting Sauron long enough for Frodo to complete his mission.Even Ram's army of monkeys taking on the demon lord Ravan and his huge army in their own home ground and ousting Ravan.A country divided by a hundred languages and castes uniting against one unassuming lawyer by the name of the Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and freeing the land without raising his hand.
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A lot can happen in a month

I have had some crazy months in my life. Some decidedly evil ones too, to be frank. Which is why whenever anything good used to happen to me, I would always be looking over my shoulder, waiting for the "bad stuff" to reveal its presence.

A funny thing happened though over the last one year. I stopped caring about whatever could go wrong. Most of it was the fear of "what ifs" anyway rather than reality itself. Somethings were out of my hands anyway so there was no point sitting and worrying or...

In conversation with Dr Priyanka Naik, author of 'Twists of Fate'

It is always nice to see someone you like succeed in life and watch a long cherished dream come true. Dr Priyanka Naik and I go quite a way back. We have never met in real life but we have been friends on the blogosphere for close to a decade now. In addition to being a healer residing in the 'Pearl of the Orient', she has now one more wonderful suffix to add after her name now - Author.
So what does it take to move up the literary ladder from writing in school to national magazines, blogs and...

INK 2014: Beyond Boundaries

What happens when you take some of the most creative innovators and artistes, the best thinkers in various fields and the biggest entrepreneurs in the country and put them together in a room over three days?  That, in a nutshell, defines INKTALKS.
The recently concluded INKTALKS 2014 was held in Mumbai at the resplendent Grand Hyatt between October 31st  - November 2nd. This years’s theme – ‘Beyond Boundaries’ was especially appealing as it looked to erase all the man-made lines we h...

Quikr - offering the best of two worlds

Quikr.We Indians are no stranger to this word, are we? We’ve seen the television ads and we’ve noted the online ads. But what is it, really?
The 12 categoriesWidely regarded as India’s most popular online classifieds site, Quikr started up over 7 years ago in 2008. Since then, it has gone on to cover over 900 cities across the country, making it easier for both buyers and sellers to deal from the comfort of their homes. All that sounds fine and good but how does that translate in real life? We...

The Honda Eco-Light effect

I've written about my Honda Brio earlier and how smooth a ride it is.One among the many fun features besides the wonderful i-VTec petrol engine and deceptive spaciousness within is the ECO-LIGHT signal which lights ups when you're driving at the most optimal speed and rpm for that gear.  Earlier this week, I was returning back after watching a movie late one night when I decided to take up the ECO-light on its word.Over 30 kms which included two states, wonderful highways and ridiculousl...

Batman adventures: The Matrikas Mystery

So the owner of this blog thought he could outsmart me. He knows that everything that he receives needs to be screened by me before it can be used at home – you just cannot be careful enough in today’s world. I would know. 

After all, I am Batman, the ‘World’s Greatest Detective’. So imagine my surprise when I came home one fine day after driving around in my autorickshaw Batmobile and found three new additions in the room. Books, no less… empty books or so they seemed, at...

The 'Vadde log Vaddi baatein' post

I honestly haven't been to Mumbai a lot. The last time I was there - technically also the first time I was there - I had a pretty good time. I won the award for Best Creative Writing Blog in India, you see. Prreeeety good time, as I was saying. It's been nearly eight months to the day that I picked up that award and when the opportunity came to visit Mumbai once more, I would be lying if I said I wasn't licking my lips with anticipation.

You see, I had been thinking a lot about some advice fel...

As free as the air

In 1845, a dentist stepped onto the spotlight at the revered Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He wanted to show his medical brethren something unique, something unheard of back then in the field of surgery.
He wanted to show them how the world could finally be rid of pain.
The young man - at thirty, that’s all he really was – had performed this miracle successfully for over a year prior to this moment. In fact, history notes that he tested it on himself first successfully before tryin...