Asthi Kalash
February 23, 2023मुझे शून्य का आभास तब हुआ जब मणिकर्णिका घाट से क़रीब तीस फ़ीट पूरब मैंने भावातुर सूरज की तरफ़ देखा, गंगा को अंजलि में भरकर गरम अस्थियों को तारने का प्रयास किया और अपने भीतर की विचलित भाव भंगिमाओं को समेटते हुए अस्थि कलश का खुला मुँह शांत गंगा की मँझधार को समर्पित कर दिया। हड्डियों का वो ढाँचा जिसमें कल तक प्राण प्रवाह था आज अपनी भग्नता के साथ एक शोकाकुल आह भरते हुए जल में समाहित हो गया। उसके साथ समा गए वो क़िस्से वो कहानियाँ, बचपन की लोरियाँ, दस्तरख़ान पर बाँट जोहतीं निगाहें यहाँ तक की झुँझलाहट के वो चौराहे…
Cancer Champions…Ek Umeed
The Champions putting the stage on fire Amidst applauding clatter in a full house auditorium, their faces reflected an incandescent glow as they ramp walked with their repristinated bodies. I sat coyly in one corner of the…
74th Republic Day
. “Ours is a portmanteau constitution with borrowings from every country except China.” the insightful quizmaster spoke, standing at the proscenium. I wonder, is this the reason we have surpassed China and become number one in the…
Page 3…Medicon 2023
Page 3 Posting….Find Yourself. On the morning of January the 15th 2023, I was standing on a crossroad and I had to choose between wisdom and mastery. With a bush-league wisdom highlighting an even amateurish walk, I…
IMA Ghaziabad Welcomes 2023
Four months ago my depressed, helpless soul would have passed this as inconceivable. Lying in my bed like a surrendered pigeon, and unable to move because of excruciating radicular pain of a disc prolapse, I was fearing…
Kashmir part Two, Pahalgam and Tangdhar LOC
En Route “If you see in oblivion to the bizarre reality, Kashmir is an enticing heaven.” “This is the spot,” he said with a matter-of-fact indifference. I didn’t look at him, only heard his voice, I didn’t…
Kashmir….Hamin asto, hamin asto. Part 1, Srinagar
Mother nature is magnificent, man can only ruin it. From the deck of Nishat Bagh Gar firdaus bar-rue zamin ast, hami asto, hamin asto, hamin ast’ It wasn’t a fortuitous accident that I stood glaring the sublimity…
If you wish to protest, change your tactics
During the past twenty-five years of my association with the medical field in capacities as a student, qualified professional, and private practitioner, I have witnessed numerous strikes by the members of my fraternity. They all had but one commonality,…
Why Doctors should never go on strike
During the past twenty-five years of my association with the medical field in capacities as a student, qualified professional, and private practitioner, I have witnessed numerous strikes by the members of my fraternity. They all had but…
Five changes we need to bring about in the way practice our profession
She had to choose between life and death, she chose death. The doctor is dead. Doctor is dead…some serious introspection needed Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, was reading the newspaper one morning when, to his shock,…
