“The Universe is nothing but a sweet fart.” When we say “world,” most of us think of our teeny-tiny Earth. A blue dot full of ape-ish bipeds who think history started with dictators, 2014, and trade tariffs. But I am talking about The Universe here. The Big Mamma. The whole cosmic shit show. We often […]
Category: Rational ruminations
Hours to competence- A conundrum:
It was a stab injury to the lower chest. Patient was breathless and dying. I suspected tension pneumothorax, and that was why I had taken him in. He was rapidly anesthetised, and I put a chest tube in. The ventilation improved dramatically. The patient was saved. Umm… No. His blood pressure continued to plummet. But […]
Why Did George Eastman Shoot Himself? Why Was Adolph Fischer Smiling at the Gallows?
Or, in other words—You Have No clue who I am! ——————————————— Let’s rewind to the late 19th century. A brilliant young man had just cracked the main problem with taking photos in that era. And he invented dry film photography. Until then, taking pictures was an expensive, complicated mess. Then along came this dude with […]
Why am I like this?
A lot of people ask me, “Don’t you have anything better to do? Why do you keep writing stuff like this? Why don’t you show deference to religion, God, tradition, and authority?” Then there are the hardcore haters who ask, “Why are you wasting your time scribbling all this subversive nonsense?” In our part of […]
Income of a Doctor in India- In A few decades.
“I deserve at least two lakhs a month. But they are giving me only 70000!” It was Vinod, a friend of mine from Bangalore. He was incensed and upset. “The atrocious part is,” He continued- “that they have offered Chethan, a junior colleague, with only MS, one lakh a month! Why did I do […]