Doctor cure thyself
Medical Drugs for Pharmacy Health Shop of Medicine (Photo credit: epSos.de) (This post in no way undervalues or brands the entire medical profession as unethical, however, it highlights the experiences...
View ArticleUnapologetically nostalgic: Coco-cola colonials
The Coca-Cola logo is an example of a widely-recognized trademark representing a global brand. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The ’70′s was definitely the era of the Coco-cola colonials. The jazzy neon, all...
View ArticleRead about how to make poverty disappear in Pages from the newspapers
Poverty (Photo credit: bandarji) Read Pages from the Newspapers. From: The Hindu Dated: July 30 2013 By UTSA PATNAIK The case is exactly the same with the official poverty lines as with the pass mark:...
View ArticleA new blog is born
Delhi, India 079 (Photo credit: Design for Health) A new blog (http://delhimyviews.wordpress.com/) comes into being today. It is about the city of Delhi. This blog looks at the city from my point of...
View ArticleFood and prices
Frying chopped onions in a frying pan (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Recently the prices of essentials have shot up. Whatever the underlying causes may be the average consumer has been left gasping. Some...
View ArticleSide-effects
Government spending (Photo credit: 401(K) 2013) To serve petrol at night or not, that’s the question. Moily had put forward a very practical solution to the crisis that we are facing that of a falling...
View ArticleUnfinished Business
Connaught Place. The skyline looks great from afar, however, the maintenance is good deal iffy. Photo credit: Pradeep Ranade. In the major cities of India, there are structures that lie uncompleted....
View ArticlePassports to another world
Bapsi Sidhwa at the 2008 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The problem with me is when someone says I must read a particular book, I am a bit wary. I really...
View ArticleUnapologetically nostalgic: My telephone is dead
Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company logo, 1882-1920 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I remember how the state-owned Delhi Telephones, later MTNL phones, used to be dead more often than living. There would...
View ArticleIn the arena
Sir Humphrey Appleby (Photo credit: Wikipedia) We as a people cast our vote with the belief that we would be ushering in change. Of course we also need to believe in the system. This latter belief...
View ArticleFarewell 2013
Arvind Kejriwal and friends (Photo credit: vm2827) A tumultuous year passes by, there is change in the air. The old order in politics has given way to the new. A new party, the Aam Admi Party (AAP),...
View ArticleUnapologetically nostalgic
Railways: Of delight and despair A steam locomotive The seemingly interminable journeys that took one down to Kerala, have left an indelible impression on me. Those days the journey began in earnest...
View ArticleAll is ‘fair’ in democracy!
http://edisoneffect.blogspot.in/2009/10/watergate-cartoons-and-articles-from-my.html I was a teenager when the Watergate scandal broke. Time and Newsweek magazines and Indian newspapers were full of...
View ArticleThe (un)intellectual me!
I belong to the “genre” of the pseudo intellectuals. Although I have a certain stoop and wear glasses – I also have a mane of hair that “true-born” intellectuals should have as part of the uniform, I...
View ArticleA brief note on human kind
The scientists have told us that the humans are a unique species on planet earth. They grow food, whereas the animals find food where ever they may be, that is why you find cows placidly congregating...
View ArticleGraffiti: A review
From bulls on the road to academic inertia, from walls across borders to Nixon’s Watergate, Graffiti had its plate full again. Meanwhile, Global notes separated from Graffiti [Wall that knows] to find...
View ArticleUnapologetically nostalgic: Occupations that may not be common now
The Charpoy There used to be a person who would mend string cots. The cots were used as primary furniture to rest in the afternoon, sleep in the night. These were, I believe the furniture used in rural...
View ArticleCheering, infuriating summer
Mangoes are summer fruits The summer in the north, after a spell of bitter cold brings good cheer, as the sun is warm and the air is pleasant. However, this doesn’t last. The summers come into their...
View ArticleDemocracy: For or against!
There was a very interesting debate in BBC (March 15 2014, 14:40 to 15:40) in Intelligence Squared. The motion was “Democracy not always the best form of government”. There was one gentleman who was...
View ArticlePolitics, cronyism and the masses
Conventional wisdom says that finite resources and huge population plays havoc. This post postulates that the masses have never had access to the finite resources and those who had were the few who...
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