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Why don’t you have your husband’s surname? 24 Aug 2013 | 06:30 am
Today, my wife and I went for our routine eye-check. Both of us were told by the optometrist that our eyes were getting worse with age, that we should eat food with plenty of antioxidants, and that w...
The case of the burning child: spontaneous human combustion? 20 Aug 2013 | 07:31 pm
One morning last week, through a friend on Twitter, I came across a shocking piece of news in The Hindu, arguably, one of India’s finest newspapers. The story entitled “Rare medical condition sets Che...
The man in the park 17 Aug 2013 | 09:46 pm
There is a man we meet at the park, just across the street from where we live, every day. He sits on a bench and looks at others who briefly share this public space. We come with our little boy to pla...
Tagore and the language of children 11 Jul 2013 | 09:13 pm
“The Hero” by Nandalal Bose I have long held the opinion that if translation is difficult, translating Rabindranath Tagore’s poems and songs from the original Bangla into English is nearly impossible...
Medical writing in the time of cholera 10 Jul 2013 | 01:42 am
Pity poor Allen Webb, stationed in Calcutta in 1848, after two major pandemics had wiped out hundreds of thousands of people, having to draft his textbook- the monstrously named Pathologica Indica; Or...
Of failed marriages, waiting rooms, and cups of tea 3 Jul 2013 | 08:55 pm
Do failed relationships reach a point when they snap? Or is the end gradual, like the loss of magnetism of two bodies that do not attract or even repel each other, but simply exist in a shared space? ...
On rereading a book 30 Jun 2013 | 07:44 pm
Reading a book again is like revisiting a vacation spot, which is now frozen in time. You remember exactly what you enjoyed when you first visited. The anticipation of what will happen next is long go...
Too much news 23 Jun 2013 | 07:26 am
What a world we’ve created, in which news of every fluttering butterfly reaches us instantaneously and we are expected to react intelligently. How much of it are we supposed to absorb? How much are we...
On learning how to walk 18 May 2013 | 06:13 pm
Thoreau couldn’t get enough of it. Beerbohm wished that he didn’t have to do it. Gandhi used it as a political act. Evolutionarily, it is one of the things differentiates us from most animals. Most of...
Questions in the aftermath of Boston 19 Apr 2013 | 05:38 pm
A few simple questions. Would people publicly share naked photos of people they did not know and in the process destroy lives? I expect that in any civilized society, the majority of people should lik...
