I walked up the leafy driveway. Many of the trees sprouted books, as usual. Some had small book-buds on them. The centre of the garden had a small statue of Saraswati. I rang the doorbell. The familiar name plate stared at me from the door with the inscription: Dr. H.R. Guru; MPBS He was no […]
Category: Rational ruminations
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 […]
Of Marriage and similar horrors..er. Pleasures.
It has been fifteen years. Everyone gushes. Hooray. I do remember that day. The fact of the matter is, I didn’t think it was a big deal at the time. Just as I knew that the moustache will start to grow, and eventually would turn grey, like most of my generation, I knew that one […]
Whirlpools and languages:
In 1938, Richard Archibald, an explorer, penetrated the interior of New Guinea and was surprised. Who wouldn’t be? Everyone sort of knew that the area was uninhabited. But it turned out that nestled in the valleys between two rows of mountains, were 50000 aboriginal people, speaking approximately thousand different languages. An area one tenth the […]