It was 2002. I was in Trivandrum after I had just passed my MS and become a qualified Surgeon. Trivandrum was a place crawling with specialists of all disciplines. I got a job as junior surgeon in one of the private hospitals. They gave me ten thousand rupees a month. I went to a conference […]
Author: Dr Jimmy
The Black money that works in mysterious ways:
Personally, I have to continue cautious support to Modi’s initiative. But one probably has to watch and wait for the full process to unfold. As such, unaccounted money is an evil. It is a continuing process, which makes many of us, unwitting participants in a criminal process. Anyone who has had opportunity to deal with […]
The Liberalism of Uncle Donald Trump
I browsed through numerous posts and articles saying that Brexit and Trump are linked. It is resurgence, they said, of the conservative right, and a slap in the face of the liberal right. Some were gloating, and others reeked of despair. It was clear that some were Conservatives. Others were Liberals. But what kind of […]
We need to believe…We can change?
The fact remains that some features of our nature do have an innate component. Intelligence and personality traits are according to various studies, between 40 and 70 percent inherited. Your ideology may cause you to stick to 40, while some may swear by 70. Many may deny this exists. Some would like to believe that […]
Vegetarianism- the Truth.
Disclaimer- I am, as of now, non-vegetarian. I was doing my residency in another state. One of my colleagues casually remarked that it was the natural state of human beings to be vegetarian. I contested this claim immediately. I had to, since I was not a vegetarian. Now, I wouldn’t have. I wouldn’t have argued; […]