Category: Notes

  • The puddle in the mind

    A lotus bloomed over a puddle Glistening in the morning sun. A cheer to the shepard and to the maiden alike, While the fisherman pondered on.

  • Dispatched

    What’s wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can’t we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we’re going to fight a disease, let’s fight one of the most terrible diseases of…

  • Health system regulation in India

     The medical establishment has become a threat to health – Ivan Illich begins his book “Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis” (1975) with these lines Going by recent events, Illich’s trenchant criticism of Western medical establishments is also pertinent to healthcare in India. First, there was Aamir Khan’s Satyameva Jayate TV episode on corruption in India’s…

  • Yali’s ponder and the “new” world

    The appellation New world says it all about the Americas; that this landmass was a world that was not known to have existed before the old world. What made Americas new? And for whom was it new? And why were they discovered so late?

  • Remembering Hitchens

      Today would have been Christopher Hitchens’ 63rd birthday. He died young. A few more years would have certainly produced more than a fair share of good debates and provocatively enlightening reactions that were characteristic of Hitchens; youtube is full of many such.