When I moved my razor blade across the expanse above my upper lip today morning, my mind flew, as minds occasionally do, to a time when this procedure was not needed. I used to apply an oil to make my moustache grow. That was the time I became a voluntary prisoner in a concentration camp- […]
Author: Dr Jimmy
The ‘Hyperhealthy’ Good Old Days
I was seeing my friend’s granny after almost twenty years. Our gang used to hang out in his house during our med school days. She was ninety six. It was nice to see that her intellect was as sharp as ever. I had some questions for her. Nearly a century of memories were not to […]
The Stone Age body and ‘Modern’ diseases
“I got up early today. The sun was already throwing its rays to the sky, but it was not seen yet. I felt hungry. The roots and nuts we had stored from yesterday were for the children only. Our huts were on top of the hill, and I surveyed the massive plain below. Bushes dotted […]
Meditation and the Ego- ‘de-me’ing oneself
I am always thinking, you know. Thinking crap. How I slipped and fell on that beautiful girl at the party yesterday. What an embarrassment! About what my wife said about me in the morning. How could she? After all that I have done for her in the past week.(One, two , three etc). Oh, that […]
Tobacco and the search for truth
I went to a government public school in Trichur in Kerala. There the boys start smoking early. My friend and classmate Anees Ibrahim started in the sixth standard. I don’t know where he got the money to get cigarettes and beedis from, but he was smoking all the time. Whenever the teacher was not in […]