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Bhasmasur* and The Art of Self Sabotage Charred wooden human sculpture in contemplative pose at sunset in mountainous landscape
Published 18 May 2026 by

Bhasmasur* and The Art of Self Sabotage 

“The body listens carefully to the stories the mind keeps repeating.”

Doctor, I Don’t Trust You 

There is perhaps no relationship in modern India more paradoxical than the one between patients and doctors.

People enter hospitals with folded hands and simmering suspicions. They distrust the doctor, distrust the hospital, distrust the pharmaceutical industry, distrust “modern medicine,” distrust antibiotics, distrust stents, distrust vaccines, distrust billing systems—and then proceed to ask, often urgently, “Doctor saab, what should we do now?”

Medicine has always depended partly on chemistry and partly on faith. Penicillin kills bacteria, but reassurance lowers cortisol. A surgeon repairs anatomy, but trust calms physiology. The body, unfortunately for sceptics, listens more to patient’s fears than to external chemical molecules. Today, the trust has become so endangered that some patients suspect even reassurance. “Don’t worry” is interpreted as evidence that worrying is urgently require read more

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A Golden Ticket to Nowhere
Published 22 March 2026 by

A Golden Ticket to Nowhere

Ailing Wife In Rickshaw Van, 70-Yr-Old In Odisha Cycles 600km To Hospital & Back.1

We are in a dimly lit, flickering fluorescent corridor in the Sahara Seva Hospital, a private hospital. It looks as if it was created to be empanelled for Government schemes.

Dashrath is a 70-year-old man from Kakriguma, a village in Odisha. His hands are clutching a laminated Ayushman Bharat Card with the desperation of a man holding a winning lottery ticket in a burning building. He is rushing to respond to the summons by Ms Jia, a 30-year-old grumpy Patient Care Coordinator. read more

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Published 20 June 2023 by

Sleeping Beauty

The most sophisticated, potent, and powerful—not to mention legal—performance enhancer that has real game-winning potential is sleep. These claims can be backed up by over 750 scientific studies that have investigated the relationship between sleep and human performance, many of which have studied professional and elite athletes.

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Published 18 May 2023 by

Rainbows and Unicorns

Dr Hans-Peter Dürr, the famous German scientists, who succeeded Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg as the President of Max Planck Institute said - I studied matter for 35 years only to find out that it does not exist.”

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Published 13 February 2022 by

Ineffective Doctors, Distressed Patients 

“Anxious and angry relatives are a burden all doctors must bear, but having been one myself was an important part of my medical education.”
― Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery1

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“Doctors in India are not as effective as those abroad!” This was Jogi’s son, GG.

His casual statement stung me. 

Jogi (Dr Joginder Singh), an old friend, had worked all his life as a physician in the public sector and had joined a private hospital after superannuation.2   read more

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↑1 https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/40447706-do-no-harm-stories-of-life-death-and-brain-surgery
↑2 Anand AC. Swami Ramdev and scientific medicine: losing is fine, but the lesson should not be lost! Natl Med J India. 2007 Sep-Oct;20(5):256-9. PMID: 18254525.

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Published 19 December 2021 by

Living Will and Green Hair 

“Wander with intent
into a garden glorious.
Walk with double brisk
upon edenic paths.
Flee the cursing fear
that lights upon your eye.
Seize the twisted dream
that strangles earth and sky.”
--Craig Froman, An Owl on the Moon: A Journal from the Edge of Darkness

This is Jia

I was mesmerized by her looks. She was dressed in blue denim trousers and a simple white T-shirt which carried a message in bold blue letters, ‘It’s Always Too Early Until It’s Too Late.’ What stood out more was her boyish hairstyle, with hair dyed in fluorescent green. This was Jia, my friend SD’s daughter. read more

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Published 6 November 2021 by

Curbside Consultation 

"A casual consultation is just that - Casual" 
- Unknown

This blog has three stories and a couple of statements that may save your life and career.

First Story: Poonam

Major Poonam was getting late for her introduction parade and was rushing out to report in time. She was shouting instructions to her children about breakfast and catching the school bus

Poonam had passed her MBBS from Shimla about 11 years back and had married an Army officer. Later she had also joined the Army Medical Corps. Presently, her husband’s battalion was posted in a non-family field area and she lived with her children in an Army cantonment outside a second tier city. She was working at the local military hospital, which was being inspected by the GOC today. Poonam was proud to be working as MI Room (now called the Casualty) incharge and would be introduced to the GOC in the introduction parade. read more

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Published 3 October 2021 by

ASH, NASH & MASH 

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” 
--William Shakespeare In Romeo and Juliet 
Another flight

“Sir, may I give you 27C, an aisle seat?” Check-in counter officer at the airlines  asked me.

“I would prefer a seat somewhere in the front, if that is possible.” was my request.

His eyes searched around a bit on his computer screen and then he asked, “Sir, only a middle seat is available in the fifth row. Is that all right?”

I nodded and got 5E. read more

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Published 15 August 2021 by

Manjunath 

‘…every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.’
—OSCAR WILDE
Jaguar and an Eye-catcher

A black shining Jaguar XF always arrests my gaze as long as it is in front of my eyes. But this time, my eyes shifted focus to the man who came out of it, just as a uniformed chauffer came around to the door and opened it gently. The man looked nothing less than a movie star. Medium height, white hair combed back tidily, neatly groomed grey beard, aviator shades, dark blue striped suit, sparkling white shirt and in place of a necktie, a bolo tie of silver with a large amethyst at the centre.  read more

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Published 17 July 2021 by

Medical Aikido

“Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.”

~ Hippocrates1

Tiddy

Meeting ‘Tiddy’ was a momentous and stupifying event for me.

In middle school, about half a century back, we were a gang of three. The gang of Tiddy, Lambu and Motu was infamous for all the mischief that happened in the class. I was Motu, the sluggish one, who liked making plans. The other two were the active ones – the muscles. The name Tiddy (a grasshopper) was given because of his small frame and his penchant for pole-vaulting as a sport.Those were our most fun-filled days. read more

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↑1 https://quotespond.com/hippocrates/foolish-the-doctor-who-despises-the-knowledge-acquired-by-the-ancients/

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