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Stray Pigeons

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165 minutes is a long time to be sitting in a narrow chair, strapped in, legs cramped due to lack of leg space, fluctuating air pressure popping your ears and making you nauseous, topped off with old, lecherous uncle leaning dangerously towards your shoulder while pretending to sleep. Watching the only movie offered on Kingfisher Airlines’ entertainment [...]

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Blue Mountain

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It was still dark out when she stepped off the bus, and started dragging her suitcase up the hill. She was panting even before she was half way there. She sat on a boulder and lit a cigarette. Through the haze of her smoke, she saw light spread over the mountains, turning them from black [...]

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Window Pain

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Someone once told me to look at my pain as if I was watching a movie. He told me to watch myself acting in it. Yesterday I watched that movie. A child, chubby, curly hair in pigtails, 2 or maybe 3 years, it’s unclear. It’s dark. She’s lying on a pile of bricks on her [...]

Bye Bye BLOGbird: RIP RXtar

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Pakistan’s gutsy young wicketkeeper, Zulqarnain gave up cricket after he was threatened by fixers and terrorists and stuff. I received a couple of emails from a senior colleague who has entered into the business of world of medical education, urging me to change the tone of my personal blog. And I decided to go ahead [...]

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Has Maddox Square lost its charm?

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During the course of those late-night group chats, thanks to Google, me and my two old buddies, Nipon and Chandradeep were discussing on the aforesaid motion on a highly intellectual note. We ultimately decided to write this on Bong Buzz and poke others to gather opinions and ideas. Maddox Square aka Ballygunge Durga Puja Samiti, [...]

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Manmohan Singh and the Congress Party

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Sometimes a good politician does not realise that he is getting past his sell by date. I strongly suspect that this is what is happening to Dr Manmohan Singh. There is no doubt that he is deserving of our respect and gratitude for his work during the nineties and also during his first term as Prime Minister where he cooled down passions generated by the arrogance of the BJP following the success of [...]

Of Freedom for Women

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Yesterday I got into an argument with one of the Indian residents of the condominium where I live. This young man, while discussing living conditions in Malaysia nd how it compares with life back home began to bemoan the lack of independence for Malaysian women, particularly of the Muslim faith. As proof of this he cited the widespread use of the tudong, the head scarf, which is widely, though not compulsorily used in Malaysia among Muslim women.

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13 unlucky QUESTIONS THE MEDIA should seek answers for and answer too

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Are Junior doctors the only doctors in the Health Service? Why senior doctors who take NPA not acted upon when it is an open truth that they have chambers? Patient parties come in a stressed situation to the hospital they are harassed by dalals (who are either red or green in colour.. hope you all [...]

Is The Computer Personal Enough?

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When I first came to join my classes at NBMC, those early days outside home seemed like hell. Though the very interesting yet challenging pre-clinical subjects kept me occupied enough, no contact with the cyber world was like a torture to me! Even more depressing was the fact that my blogs, very dear to me, [...]

The Soul of India

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A doctor explores the soul of India while in abroad, in post Mumbai terror attack scenario.

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