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, premature ejaculation (pardon my trenchant analogy). More than ninety percent have failed, and…

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Badal

गहरे मानसून का बादल हूँ, बन के मोती पिघलता हूँ, ग़र करोगे याद पाओगे मुझे मैं हर सावन सफ़र करता हूँ । मैंने देखा है तेरी आँखों में यादों की एक कशिश सी, वो शिकवे वो शिकायतें, जज़्ब अरमानों का वो सूखा दरिया, अबकी ऐसा करता हूँ, तेरी ही छत…

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Nostalgia

सुनो, आज फिर मिलते हैं, कुछ क़िस्से पुराने सुनाते हैं, कुछ गीत नए गुनगुनाते हैं।   वो बचपन की मधुर यादें, वो नानी दादी की बातें, वो सपने पतंग के पेंच के, वो, अफ़साने शीला की जवानी के, गाँव के पुराने बरगद की छांव, वो बारिश में काग़ज़ की नाव,…

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Some Heroes Don’t Have A Face

  Have you ever wondered why, despite all its roughness and doom, despite all its unfairness and gloom, and despite all its pain and suffering, this world is still a beautiful living place? What drives the world? What is keeping it bound despite all the looseness and shallowness we see…

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Man’s Search for Meaning

Disclaimer: This, by no means, is a review or a critical analysis. My capabilities are too dwarf, too plebeian, too limited to comment or criticize these masterpiece creations. Consider these to be only as thoughts arising out of reading this literary work, thoughts that I wish to share with you…

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When your child is suddenly diagnosed to have a critical/debilitating illness

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my own suffering….Dostoevsky Why Me? Why My Child? If someone is struck with this unfortunate blow of destiny that his beloved son or daughter has to suffer from a debilitating, potentially lethal disease, or with a medical…

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ISOPARB-Lohri Delight: An Unofficial Newsletter.

  I was under such a swivet about attending this Lohri-Special, power-packed, webinar Of ISOPARB West Up Chapter that my feet were literally shaking. Thank God it was a cold winter evening and my wife thought it was owing to the low temperature. Whereas, the fact of the matter was…

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MIXOPATHY…ANOTHER NAIL IN THE COFFIN

“If you cannot compete, impede.” The term ‘Mixopathy” does not have a dictionary meaning, nor does it have a legitimate definition behind its origin and use, it is as illegitimate as the government intention behind the notification to legalise the practice of allopathic procedures by Ayurvedic doctors. Over the past…

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The Covaxin Promise…Is it Possible

Since there is no cure for the disease to date and prevention seems to be the only saviour, the world is waiting with bated breath for a vaccine against the virus. It’s been more than six months since the dreaded coronavirus hit the world. Over eleven million people, the world…

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ये समर विशेष है

(२) ये समर विशेष है समय वस्तुतः बड़ा विचित्र है। पुष्प लहलहा रहे बाग़ में, पंछी चहकते नील गगन में, वातावरण सिंचित है प्राण वायु से किंतु प्राण संशित है वातावरण से, मनुज बँधा भय की लक्ष्मण रेखा में,  पशु स्व्क्छंद विचारते शहर शहर में।  विचित्र ये नहीं कि समर फिर सज़ा है प्रलय और विलय…

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