Prevention is better than cure!

28th May.....World menstruation day!! 9th standard division C, year 2004......I am peacefully having my lunch at my desk....suddenly some guys start snickering and the girls have grim faces...I ask around and I learn that these people saw a girl with a stained uniform with blood....The only thought that came to everyone at that time was How could she? As if somehow it was her fault....seriously? Every month girls experience bleeding along with dysmenorrhoea and mood problems...It is not a burden for us...We go through it as naturally as possible....But then "they" go and put tax on sanitary napkins....and there is no tax on sindoor and bindi....How can sindoor and bindi be more necessary than sanitary napkins. It is time that sex education is taken for girls and boys together.Girls should be taught there is no reason to hide their sanitary napkins as if its like some evil not to be seen by anyone.Why is it necessary to wrap the sanitary napkin packet in a newspaper and ...

"From Monday confirm dieting" or "I'll definitely start from 1st of next month" or "It's going to be my new year resolution".This sounds almost like everyone.Even I have been through this phase.So what made me start dieting?After 2 years of no exercise and eating random things outside I had gained a lot of weight.Ofcourse I blamed it on my psychiatric medications.....as if I was super thin before that...but still. Everyone was saying that I had put on a lot and I should do something about it.However food was the only thing that made me happy so I wasn't going to listen to anyone.So in december of 2016 I made a resolution that I will start a diet and start losing weight.The blueberry cheese cake which I had months back seemed like heaven.And I devoured it thinking it will be my last one. Not being a an expert on nutrition I consulted a doctor who gave me a timetable to follow and a whole list of food items I could eat.I was amazed I could e...

THERE ARE DIFFERENT BUTTONS ON THE KEYBOARD OF YOUR LAPTOP WITH DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS.WHEN YOU PRESS THE BUTTON A THE LETTER A APPEARS ON THE SCREEN.SO EASY TO TYPE AN ARTICLE PRESS THE BUTTON PUBLISH AND THEN IT CAN BE READ BY THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD.BUT WHO MADE THIS EASY?WHO MADE THE ELECTRIC CIRCUITS TO MAKE IT AS SIMPLE AS THIS?THE HUMAN MIND........WHO IS JOHN GALT? THE MAN WHO STOPPED THE MOTOR OF THE WORLD!!! I HAD PUT UP THIS QUESTION ON FACEBOOK FEW WEEKS AGO WHEN I STARTED READING THE BOOK ATLAS SHRUGGED BY AYN RAND AND I AM JUST ABOUT TO COMPLETE THE BOOK.ITS A COMPLEX STORY BUT WITH SIMPLE IDEAS.IT WAS WRITTEN IN 1957 BUT IT GAINED POPULARITY IN THE CONSEQUENT DECADES AND HER IDEAS AND PHILOSOPHIES ARE STILL APPLICABLE TODAY.THE MAIN THEME BEHIND THIS BOOK IS OBJECTIVISM.MY GRANDFATHER (TATYA) HAD TAUGHT ME A PROVERB - "TO CALL UPON A MAN OF BUSINESS , ONLY UPON THE MATTERS OF BUSINESS, DO YOUR BUSINESS , GO BACK TO YOUR BUSINESS, THAT THE MAN OF BUSINESS SHOULD DO H...

As a doctor I have seen different kinds of patients from different strata of society.It is impossible to keep track of all of them or even remember them.But there are a few patients which have made a impression on mind and I would never forget them due to their quirkiness.A mother of a 8 year old tells me"Look at my child he has become so weak , please do a C.T scan for him." I was at a loss of words.This mother who couldn't pay for proper nutrition of her kid was ready to pay for an unnecessary C.T scan.  People need to know what facilities are available.There are many programmes and facilities provided by the government but people need to know how to utilize them.Then only these programmes will be succesful.Hence the primary health care. "Primary health care is essential health care made universally accessible to individuals and acceptable to them, through their full participation and at a cost  the community and country can afford". Too much acade...