Suraj drove his new Ford Fiesta through the oppressive morning traffic. It was a Monday. He reflected that he was very happy with life. That was what he had recorded in his diary yesterday evening. His friend James, the Psychologist had asked him to. Record his level of happiness every day. Was he miserable, a […]
Category: Journals
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 […]
Hands and face- from the dead to the living- the right and wrong of it all.
Transplantation of kidneys, liver, heart, lungs, pancreas, intestine etc is now reasonably well established. These are organs. Tissues like cornea, skin and bone can also be transplanted. The decision of the near ones to donate these from their dear one who has just died is one of the noblest gestures of them all. Some organs […]
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 […]
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 […]