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Malala Yousafzai Speaks at UN

Years from now, I don't want to have to search hard to find this speech. I want to be able to find it in my own blog and replay it.

It is tough finding a speech that inspires by being genuine. Decades ago, we used to look upon figures like Mandela and Mother Theresa as awe-inspiring, purely by their deeds. Today, we are dependent on media-PR services to tell us that the best options that Indians have are enigmas and polarising figures like Rahul Gandhi, Narendra Modi, Mamata Banerjee or Sharad...

The First Time

It was my first day in paediatrics internship after a relaxing month at ENT. The day had gone by pretty smoothly till the emergency call came to the department around 1.30 pm in the afternoon.  There had been a premature delivery in the obstetric theater and the resulting baby weighed a mere 900 grams; just a third of what an ideal baby should weigh at birth. The chances of the child surviving were meagre but we still knew that we had to do what we could. A tube was placed into the respir...

Another way to rob you...

In the past, I have tried various methods to make you all part with your hard earned cash and food. I have pretended to like some of your cookery posts with the sole hope that you would send me some of your dishes out of gratitude. Did Not Work.
I tried befriending some of you, hoping you would reveal your credit card information to me after I wooed you with my 'A/S/L' dialogues (Yes. I'm very old-fashioned.) Did Not Work.
I tried meeting some of you in real-life by surprising you at work. Did...

The League of Extraordinary Athletes

I had finally escaped from my patients and was enjoying my annual vacation in Goa sipping pina coladas by the beach. With a wonderful view of the sunset and families running around and playing, life could not be better. That's when I get an invite to join a WeChat conversation from a very unique group. Intrigued, I join in. 
DocRoshan has joined the League of Extraordinary Athletes group.
Me: Hello?  Maradona: Thank God you are here. Finally, an objective mind. We need help deciding wh...

Choose your chat buddies wisely !

As I lie down in bed with a bandage around my head, the only true advice I can give you all is this - choose wisely who you let inside a Group chat. It's tough enough managing with 1 eccentric fellow but heaven help you if you end up with a whole bunch of them all at once. You run the risk of physically harming yourself as I did. You don't believe me? 




It all started with an innocuous little billing error with the mobile company. As usual, they had charged me extra for services I never ev...

Healing touch

Everything had gone just perfectly, Shantamma thought to herself as she wiped the sweat from her brow. The wedding festivities were over and her son and his new bride would depart the coming morning for their honeymoon. Some country abroad, they had mentioned but for the life of her she could not remember which one. She smiled wistfully at that. Age was catching up with her, she knew. She no longer was the young woman who had entered this very house with a spring in her step three decades ago...

The Mad doctor

As a college going student, how scared were you of your teaching staff ? Were you the prankster who put up a face like a wet puppy in front of your staff and then mimicked them the moment they turned their backs on you or were you the type who froze bug-eyed when they pointed in your direction, praying they were calling someone else? For me, it was a gradual progression over time from the latter to the former state. And boy, did it have it's moments.

This incident took place when I was in my f...

Puma El Rey Future

I was fortunate enough to be chosen by Blogadda as one of the lucky few to get a pair of Puma's El Rey Future series of shoes. Blogadda has been really kind for me over the last few years (6 Tangy Tuesday/Spicy Saturday winning picks, being chosen as one of the Premium Bloggers, many a good novel to review) and so I jumped at the opportunity to review this.
Of course once I got chosen, the most obvious question struck me : How do you review shoes? I mean, it isn't like reviewing a bo...

"Sir. Your patient is ready." - Morton.

I want to tell you a story. It may seem like a fairy tale. In many ways, it is. It is a journey that zigzags across all the corners of the globe over dozens of centuries, featuring saints and sceptics, sleeping chickens and screaming men.

This, my dear friends, is the story of how your stay in the hospital became painless.


'Pain was, and would always be an inevitable part of surgery.' - Liston's 1842 edition of Elements of Surgery. 
As late as 1842, Liston's book on surgery m...

Ten Shades of Life : The Book Launch

Thanks in no small measure to the efforts of Fablery and the hard work and effort put in by editor Nethra Anjanappa, Fablery's first anthology of short stories, Ten Shades of Life, featuring contest winners across ten different genres was officially launched on the 4th of May in Bangalore.

The venue was the newly renovated Atta Galatta bookstore in Koramangala (a stone's throw away from Empire Hotel, a really good stone's throw away from Forum Mall!) which provided a very cozy and personal atm...