WHY YOU SHOULD STOP ASKING YOURSELF THE QUESTION ‘WHY ME?’?
If you would have told me, back in my growing-up years, that I would be writing on ‘why you should stop asking yourself the question ‘why me’? I would have disbelieved you. I have asked myself this more often than I would like to accept. You see, each of us ask our self this question,…
FACING THE ODDS – TRAUMA AND DEPRESSION
There’s an article somewhere on this blog on ‘How To Train Your Mind To Not Be Anxious’. This post is second in that series of mental health related articles and deals with sensitive topics like trauma, depression, and suicide. Thought I should just give a heads up. If I had to describe to you years…
‘C’ IN CANCER IS ALSO FOR COURAGE, COMPASSION & CARE
This month on the blog we have Mugdha Rahatekar, giving a first-hand account of her tryst with cancer and what it entails. Today, marks one year since her diagnosis. In her own honest and heartfelt words she writes positively about sailing through with courage. You Never Know Boy, what a year it’s been! Last year…
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR MIND TO NOT BE ANXIOUS
There seems to be a recipe for everything these days! There’s one and many for baking a laddi pav or Indian bread, making a dream-catcher, creating a garden for herbs and vegetables and even for developing a vaccine (not one that you can try at home though!). For not being anxious? There isn’t one, in…
THE GOOD SAMARITANS
Last post was about the dreams I once harboured and the new midget-like goals planned for 2020. In this post, I want to talk of a word, which as an adjective and a verb, is powerful- like the holy grail of treasure hunting. Kindness. We live in stranger times, I know. Where asking for help…
A LIFE OF LAYERED DREAMS
YEAR 1995 An airy and luminous room. Light poured through the windows, but sunlight failed to reach where I sat, on the first bench in the middle of the classroom (in the later years I translocated to the back benches, for better education as they say). I was of an age when I could easily…
THE INDIAN STATE OF MEDICAL AFFAIRS
India’s healthcare industry is notoriously a’ la mode in several ways, for obvious reasons. Remember, the recent doctor strike 2.0? Well, it lasted for 6 days and has a Wikipedia page on it. India is a hub for clinical trials. Two reasons- greater patient availability and friendly drug-control system. On November 20, 2016, a headline…
CROWDFUNDING: A SUCCESSFUL CAMPAIGN & THE INDIAN SCENARIO
Homo sapiens, that is us, the self-proclaimed powerful species has a thirst for constancy- outlive the dangers to its survivability factor. Dangers created as ancillaries to the species’ greed for progression. This need for survival is the mainspring for alternatives. Since ages unknown we’ve had alternative medicine – to treat and cure seemingly difficult diseases…
FINANCE OPTIONS FOR MEDICAL EXPENSES IN INDIA – PROS & CONS
Going purely by experience, mine and of those around me, two kinds of expenses are the most worrisome – education and healthcare. Both are rising at an alarming rate, with no hope of an immediate mechanism for putting them in check. I know of couples opting for a single child in order to be able…
‘GOD HAS BEEN KIND’
The grass was green, the sky was blue and life was nice… It was the summer of 2011. I was posted in Kolkata. Life was coasting along rather satisfactorily for me. I was in my 30th year of service in the Indian Army and had seen reasonable success by way of being bestowed with the…