I’ve started to dread the alphabet ‘e’. First it was just email. It sounded nice on arrival and soon got me hooked. After awhile ebay came on the way. This too was okay. After all, there is lot in the largest auction site to idle away time. Then came ebook, a term to which I’m […]
Kunal Saha’s plight
Is there something for West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC) to hide? By all accounts, it seems so. This impression gets bolded going by the report in DNA that a single-member judge has dismissed Dr. Kunal Saha’s plea to gain access to WBMC records under the recently enacted Right to Information Act (RTI) on the ground […]
Corneal Revolution
When my son was born with defects in his eyes (technically called, Limbal Dermoids) in 1990, we were living in Delhi. One of the attending doctors suggested that we immediately take him to LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad for further treatment. He cited 2 reasons for that. One was that eye treatment was better […]
Jupiter, The King Of Planets
Those of my visitors who’ve earlier seen the exhilarating pictures of Jupiter and Saturn in this post, Jupiter’s push, would surely rejoice at the following video released by NASA. Technorati Tags: jupiter, nasa, new horizon
Second coming of quality education
The more you try to unshackle, the more you tie up in knots. This best describes Presidency College’s plan to become autonomous. One may wonder why it so happens. Why is it that the urgency of autonomy is so badly entangled that nobody knows for sure when it would happen? Perhaps the answer lies in […]
8000 km to give birth
Humpback whales in singing position[Picture source] It’s an amazing story of 8000 km journey to breed, covering the distance in nearly 6 months. In a research by Cascadia Research Collective in Olympia, Washington, scientists have found that humpback whales travel that much or perhaps more to give birth to their offspring. This is fantastic because […]
10-year old sextuplets
When the 6 of them were born 10 years back in 1997 in New York’s Stony Brook University Hospital, there was considerable frenzy among people from all walks of life. As The New York Times then reported, the hospital on Long Island was under siege by the news media, television scouts, book publishers and entrepreneurs […]
Highest medical claim
It’s a landmark event in the annals of Indian medical history. The highest claim for compensation thus far has been filed by US-based NRI doctor Kunal Saha in the Supreme Court yesterday. It amounts to Rs.1.43 billion or Rs.143 crore. [Image Source] Dr. Kunal Saha, presently an AIDS researcher, has made the claim against 5 […]
Canine-ism
An urban menace [Picture source] A pan-India urban problem, conspicuous yet hardly addressed properly, is that of stray dogs. The menace of dog-bite, and even death resulting from it as recent incidents in Mumbai, Bangalore and elsewhere have proved, is on the rise. But there is no ready solution in sight because the municipal authorities, […]
Circumcision reduces HIV risk
In a World Health Organization (WHO) conference in Switzerland, it has been suggested that male circumcision is an effective step to reduce HIV infection. As we know, circumcision is a customary must for many people, and in such cases male children are circumcised a few months after birth. WHO feels this new finding may help […]