After an hour of standing in the queue, I got it. A coloured slip of paper. Mahatma Gandhi grinned purplishly from it. The Rupee symbol and the number ‘2000’ featured prominently. This was one of those things which people would die for. If not for one, many might, for a stack of them. On Gandhi’s […]
Category: Rational ruminations
The Black money that works in mysterious ways:
Personally, I have to continue cautious support to Modi’s initiative. But one probably has to watch and wait for the full process to unfold. As such, unaccounted money is an evil. It is a continuing process, which makes many of us, unwitting participants in a criminal process. Anyone who has had opportunity to deal with […]
The Liberalism of Uncle Donald Trump
I browsed through numerous posts and articles saying that Brexit and Trump are linked. It is resurgence, they said, of the conservative right, and a slap in the face of the liberal right. Some were gloating, and others reeked of despair. It was clear that some were Conservatives. Others were Liberals. But what kind of […]
Doing what I don’t like
Another of my attempts at giving advice to young medical students. I cannot run away. They want me to. What can one do but oblige…….. Remember……they asked for it. In the film ‘Pretty woman’ , Richard Gere’s billionaire character asks the character of Julia Roberts, a prostitute: “What all do you do?” “I do […]
The importance of knowing what we don’t know
We speak of the hegemony of the west. After the British left us, there is the cultural tsunami that cannot be eradicated. We wear western clothes. We drive modern vehicles that are the cultural relic of a process that started with the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, James Watt and Nicolai Tesla. We talk […]