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Just yesterday, inside our layout a 27-year-old man collapsed in his bathroom. He suffered from a massive heart attack and till last evening he was on ventilator and was severely brain damaged. We did not know him personally but it came as such a shock to know that we are…

There is an ashram for leprosy patients in Hyderabad. They also house tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS infected patients. They have a team of German doctors. It is a very big campus with lush greenery and very neat living places for all the inmates and their caretakers. They also have a very…

Wow, there was a time when we did not have internet. It seems so difficult to imagine that time. though I have lived through it. My first foray with the world wide web came only pretty late, towards the late 90’s and I have actively felt its utility only in…

Jaswant Singh has managed to get great publicity for his new book and sure, it is flying off the shelf like hot cakes. He has got suspended from BJP in the bargain. So, he has talked about Jinnah and said that the responsibility of Partition is equally shared by Nehru…

After my recent trip to Hyderabad, after getting back I developed slight sore throat. It became cold, cough and slight fever the next day. In other circumstances, I would have waited one more day for the fever to intensify to visit the doctor. But given the current spread of swine…

Kids got to meet their cousins – my sis-in-law’s kids during our recent vacation. The girl (Isha) is slightly older than Siddharth and the boy (Akhil) is a year younger to Gautam. What is with boys and cars, first of all? I had taken along just 4-5 small toy cars…

Today, I spoke to one of my batchmates from my MBA days. She has moved to NY and I just recently got in touch with her through what else but Facebook. We got chatting and I realized that here is this gem of a person, I hardly knew when in…

It sounds silly but visiting a spa has always held a special kind of appeal to me. And, though I have planned for it so many times, something or the other has always come up and my plans do not materialize. I have always been a sucker for massages. My…

This news surely did not merit front-page coverage in the newspapers in India. Shahrukh Khan, one of the most popular actors in the Indian film industry was taken for a second check and questioned by an immigration officer in the US. He had gone to the US on 14th August…

India celebrates its 63rd Independence Day today. No matter where we are, we begin the day with flag hoisting and playing the national anthem. When we were little kids and we had only Doordarshan – one channel on TV, we would dutifully watch the PM’s speech and also the Manoj…