Category Archives: Health
Smoking in an anti-smoking world
A friend of mine was being pestered by another friend who wanted her to give up smoking. To make a long story short, this is an ongoing thing and I have come to associate the presence of that man with anti-smoking propaganda rather than a friendly conversation. I am certainly not saying that one should [...]
Delusions and Morgellons
When my mother was scorned by the world as an eccentric, I was the one who thought that she actually might have something that was not being heard. As I grew up, her eccentricity grew into full blown psychosis and eventually she was diagnosed with schizophrenia. She got treated, and I lost the lively, if [...]
Braving The Dental Nightmare
Those who know me well, know me for a coward when it comes to being poked by sharp things. Needles are sharp. It is not so much the pain of it as the whole idea of it coming closer and closer and I know it will hurt. It goes against every instinct I have to [...]
Female foeticide – a different take
Arrest after man buries twins alive caught my eye as I read on in horror. While the issues raised by the selective abortion of female foetuses creates a great deal of social concern for the future of India, I think it is worse that newly borns are burried alive after birth. This makes me think [...]
Mumbai water supply going to the dogs?
Walking down the street near the old Ajmera School in Borivli West today, I came across this: In case the picture isn’t clear, this is a dog drinking at a leaking water connection. Take a close look: I couldn’t get a better picture. It got scared and ran away. Actually, when I saw it, there [...]