Ramprasad was eighty six. He sat in his backyard, chatting with his friend, Ahmed Yousef. They were neighbours for decades, and had lost their wives years ago. It was natural that they became close friends. Ahmed was also Ramprasad’s personal physician. “I am ready to die, daktar sab,” Said Ramprasad. “I am always breathless, and […]
Category: Rational ruminations
ENTRY- The Background. -Batch of 1990, Medical School.
In 1988, a mysterious thing called the internet connected USA and Europe. What was it? No one knew, and none cared. An organization called the CERN, named a strange electronic contraption, the World Wide Web. The same year, saw the first famous computer virus, ‘The Internet Worm’. A McDonald’s outlet opened for the first time […]
Could one of us be the New Zealand killer? – YES!
I was a spinner in my high school cricket team, and my position was always precarious. I was simply not good enough. Vinay came to our school from another one, and promptly displaced me by his proficiency with the ball. Rumour went around that he was spreading malicious gossip about me. Once I cornered him […]
“I lost my job”- you might too. – Farmer distress and Universal Basic Income
The year is 2030. I got up from bed. Wife was away looking for a job. Most teaching was done online by dedicated programs, and the content for lakhs of students was prepared by a few professionals in Bangalore. Most teachers had lost their jobs. The dishes- I put them into the dishwasher. A few […]
Encounter with Trump- The class.
I had just got back from Planet Zor, two million light years away, to counsel Dracon, the dictator to a hundred Billion Zorians, regarding an uprising of locals in the beta sector. Being an intergalactic Psycho-political consultant was tough. Unholy hours. I was woken in the middle of the night by CIA agents crawling all […]