Dr. Surendran and wife Meera were friends of my father. They wanted to immigrate to the USA. Everything was ready for them. But they delayed the journey till their only daughter Prabha was five years old. As medical people, they believed that in the first five years the child’s basic attitudes and personality were set. […]
Category: The anatomy of well-being
How to buy Happiness- with Money!
When my friend Naren went to Abu Dhabi immediately after MBBS, I was very surprised. When he told me that his only intention of going was to make money, I pursed my lips. He was a good student. Was money his only agenda? It turned out that he came from a poor family. His younger […]
Love- and arranged love
In 2001, I returned from Pondicherry after my residency program in surgery. My father said: “There is a girl we would like you to meet. We can go tomorrow.” I went. I saw. Talked a bit and that is it. Now it is more than fifteen years of life together. I guess I was at […]
Love me- (or?) Make me happy?
We have big heads. That is what gives us a pain in the neck. Our brains weigh nearly one and a half Kilos, while our closest relatives, the chimps have only half of that. It also gives women a seductive sway in their hips. The abnormally wide pelvis of the human female is engineered to […]
The invasion of the ‘Screens’- Hegemony of the Media
There was a time, when I could not get enough of News. TV Sets had become widespread during my teens. The constant stream of accidents, rapes, killings and street fights kept me riveted to the newspaper and the TV screen. The genocides, progroms, wars and famines going on in different parts of the world, promptly […]