Is happiness, a thing?

One day the teacher asked a class of ten year-olds what they wanted to become when they grew up. One boy jumped up- ‘I want to be a doctor’. ‘Oh, Very good’, said the teacher. Many others followed. ‘Teacher’, ‘Truck driver’, ‘Singer’- The children came up with many professions. One girl said that she just […]

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Red Neanderthals and a World in Blue.

Jeei-Me peeked out through the lone bush. It was a magnificent sight. The snow covered peaks loomed in the distance. The mid-morning sun was cool; cool. He longed for the two or three months of summer that were long past. That couldn’t be helped. One could hug the hide-sewn cloth tightly around oneself- that was […]

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The crux of being Great

It was after he died that I read about him in detail. I thought that it was good to be better informed than certain Ministers from Keralam. There is no doubt that he was a great man. It got me thinking. What makes some people iconic? Muhammed Ali was arrogant and brash. Some have accused […]

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Some serious advice

This is an ‘advice’ piece I wrote for the students of Jubilee Mission Medical College, for their magazine: When your Editor and my good friend Harsha Annie Mathew asked me to write something inspirational for young doctors and medical students I was flabbergasted. That is because I consider myself a young doctor. So the suggestion […]

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