ചെറുപ്പത്തിൽ എന്റെ ‘അമ്മ മൈദക്ക് പറഞ്ഞോണ്ടിരുന്നത് – അമേരിക്കൻ മാവ് , അമേരിക്കൻ മാവ് എന്നാ . എന്തൂട്ട് കാര്യണ്ട് ഈ പാവം മൈദനെ അമേരിക്കൻ മാവ് എന്ന് വിളിക്കാൻ ? അതും ഈ ആളെ തിന്നുന്ന അതി ഭീകരം ആയ ജനിതക വിളകളും തമ്മിൽ എന്ത് ബന്ധം . നമുക്ക് ആദി മുതൽ ഒന്ന് നോക്കാം . അത് വേണോ – വേണം . എനിക്കതൊരു വീക്നെസ് ആയി പോയി . ഈ […]
Category: Rational ruminations
The Mother- of all girlfriends.
It was dark. It was not the intensity, but the pervasiveness that made it so total. There was nothing. Yet shadows lurked. There was the merest suggestion of something to come, though future was not yet invented. That is because Time had not come into being. Then there was a voice. The voice was without […]
Semmelweiss and Science: A lesson
One thing about fighting pseudo science, in Medicine in particular – is that one does encounter nuts. There is no proof that germs cause disease. Microorganisms exist, but are like worms, just found in regions of the body that are diseased. Even more hilarious: Where is the bloody proof? It is all an international conspiracy. […]
Kashmir – and The three “D” s.
Do you often see the roads in your neighbourhood at one am in the morning? I get a chance. Once in a while. I drive briskly through roads that are startlingly calm. They lie winding and tired, like endlessly long dormant snakes, satiated after the heavy bustle of the blistering day. In the hospital, you […]
On Bullshit. (without it, we would be lost)
Bullshit has been around a long time. As long as there were bulls. Please note that I am talking “Bullshit” and not “Cowdung”. I don’t want to go to Pakistan. Pakistan is much worse. For now. But the word bullshit, has been there , almost from 1900. Amazing. It never went out of fashion. For […]