Mausam : All the seasons in 20 Years.

Happened to watch Mausam (Dir: Pankaj Kapoor), a bonanza of feelings and emotions let loose to take you through a whirlwind. Its like stories from 6 movies merged into one movie. Was the plan to give maximum value for money?

The funniest part is all the terrorist activities and riots of the whole century in the backdrop; and!! shahid and sonam

Mausam: Ek Anukhi Prem Katha

somehow become part of all the great terrorist and communal disaster of past 3 decades, bad luck knows no bounds in this movie. Above that it also focuses upon worst category of Communication failure where by the Sonam relies so badly upon Rajjo for all the communication to Shahid. Probably Pankaj Kapoor wanted to show the importance of Facebook in our life today. The movie also shows us that how you should not speak to the love of your life even if you are seeing her after 2 years. And in the end, a White Horse, a Kid, Shahid and Sonam live happily ever after. In my view, a must watch movie. Go along with group of friends, you will surely enjoy!

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Five things that can replace Manmohan Singh?

I am quite amused by the sight of Manmohan Singh and his fast reflexes which can even beat that of turtle’s.  Following five things can replace Manmohan Singh so easily that you will never be able to figure out the difference.

1. Replace Manmohan Singh with a wax statue with a voice broadcaster that converts Sonia Gandhi’s voice frequencies to Manmohan’s voice.
2. If you wanna be a bit more Hi-Tech,a badly designed robot will also do.
3. A puppet with 2 strings to move his hands and legs.
4. A plastic Manmohan doll with movable shoulder and hip joint.
5. Halothane, a very potent anesthetic can also replace Manmohan Singh as it has the same effect on human beings as does Manmohan Singh.

Anna did it !!!

And Anna did it, all skeptics answered well. I was watching his speech, it was plain awesome.. all points taken.

All those who still doubt the power of democracy should question themselves and come out of this state of inaction. Indians saying “Kuch nahi ho sakta is desh ka !” is quite common, it should be read as “Hum kuch nahi kar sakte!” The cleansing of the system will start from us.

It is us who will have to first believe in ourselves and that we can change things around us. India can progress exponentially and the key to it is willingness of people and people united…kudos to the spirit of democracy..Jai Hind!

A Three Headed Monster

My last post was a product of immense frustration i am feeling these days while working as a resident in a trust hospital in Delhi which caters mostly to middle to lower income groups. And i have come across some 12-15 patients, in their middle ages with diabetic nephropathy with CKD stage IV to V in just a period of 2 months of my new job. And the element of surprise is that they were diagnosed to be diabetic only recently after coming in delayed contact with Healthcare. Adding to frustration was – some of them telling me “Sir jub se is hospital mein aaye hein tabhi se yeh sab kuch hua hai … nahi to mein kabhi beemar hee nahi hua !!!“.

I mean…How would you react to such kind of statement ??

Anyways, now that the problem has raised its ugly head, what are the ways available to fix it ?
The answer i get is : “Comprehensive conservative management and initiation of Renal Replacement Therapy”.
Renal Replacement Therapy !!! If i am right that implies :either a dialysis or a transplant.

As we all know Renal Transplant is a rare commodity available only to a lucky few (read lucky as rich).
So in short, how many dialysis can a lower to middle class family afford equates to the amount of life they can buy.

I also feel that each and every step of disease management is restricted by limiting resources especially in India with most of the healthcare bills being paid out of the pocket. Whether the treatment to a ailment is available or not, sometimes seems to be irrelevant.

I am clueless about whom to blame : The Naive attitude of People towards there own health or The Economic System or The Incapability of Medicine as a science !!
Or may be its like a three headed monster trying to eat you and you are trying to figure out which head is smaller…

Medicine as a science is still primitive !!!

As a patient or as a doctor, this thing will always come to your mind when you will find yourself restrained by though-modern-but-seemingly-primitive methods of the medicine, if compared to other streams of science. After the advent of antibiotics we have somehow been able to conquer the infective diseases but now we have a waging war coming up where our opponents will be the lifestyle diseases. The special attribute of lifestyle diseases working against us is their ability to involve multiple organ systems at a time. Their effects on whole body are in the form of a continuum throughout the body and not just on isolated organs or organ systems. While our approach in fighting these diseases is very short sighted!!! We don’t actually cure them but just postpone them to let them reappear at a latter date. Without primary care our fight against diseases is irrelevant. In spite of great advances in diagnostic investigations our actions on the diagnosed diseases are mild. We deal with the human body by dividing it into separate organ systems and most of the strategy in our hands is predominantly defensive. We are in acute need of ways to find out more aggressive ways with pin pointed precision and actually uprooting the pathology then just alleviating the symptoms and waiting for the body to heal by itself.

Why Do Human Beings fight Among Each Other ?

We will have to ask a few basic questions to ourselves which if answered correctly will make us understand what is actually going on and what should be done to stop all this.

What Is Religion ?

There are about 25 main religions being practiced across the world today . Each one of these religions is again divided into various sects. At some isolated places of earth like Africa and the Amazon forest there are many more religions practiced by the local tribes .Each religion gives a different set of theories of origin of this world .Each religion gives a different set of paths to touch the Divine God. Each religion gives the people a certain set of rules to act within .

But a simple logic a sane person should understand that no matter what anybody says there can be one and only one Ultimate Theory to explain the origin of this world and there can be one and only one GOD…if actually there is one !!!

What Is Language ?

“A language is a dynamic set of visual, auditory, or tactile symbols of communication and the elements used to manipulate them.”-Wikipedia .

Once I was watching a documentary on language and I would like to restate what I learnt from that documentary-“It has been proved by research that a language is a natural tendency of a human being “. That simply implies that if a experiment is conducted such that a group of children before having developed any sign of language is isolated , they are destined to find a way to communicate or in simple words will develop there own language.

So let it be Japanese,Chinese,Spanish or let it be Marathi,Tamil,Kannada,Malyalam,Hindi,English……Language is just a way of expressing your ideas and no language should be considered to be superior or to be inferior to the other…or there should not be a sense of pride or a sense of anguish to speak a particular language. If you know the language speak it out and if you don’t know the language try to learn it and then speak it out and share your ideas with the society. Why does anybody wants to fight for language !!!

Now after having witnessed the world war 1 and world war 2 and other everyday terrorist attacks I think its finally the time that we should sit and contemplate that something is potentially wrong with the human nature .We ourselves classify things and we ourselves divide things and then we actually become a part of those hypothetical divisions and start having inter-hypothetical-division fights . Well now-a-days I think the hypothetical divides of the religion are getting blunted gradually .I think I know what will be the new divides of humanity –Atheists,Agnostics,Scientlogists,Budhists, Scientifics and non-Scientifics, knowledgeable and less knowledgeable , IQ above 150 , IQ from 100-150 and IQ below 100

There are many other questions which Humanity should answer itself before carrying on with the business of being the Humanity.

Our Old Delusive Politicians

I feel that our politicians do not realize the severity of the current situation and probably their old age have made them delusive enough to understand anything that is going on.They have such a narrow vision of the real picture so that they are not able to get out of social divisions of religion and caste which actually don’t exist today.The actual divisions dividing our society today are that of poverty,disease,hunger,corruption and terrorism.When will these degenerated brains realize!!!

An Epidemic Of Mediocrity And Inaction

Mumbai Terror Attack

After having done my internship  in a government hospital for one year and after having observed the attitude of government agencies and above all our political leaders , it is my observation that what we are experiencing today is not just a terror attack suggesting the failure of our Intelligence agencies.But similar situations of failure are very much present in our government hospitals where in spite of full dedication of doctors needed resources are not made available.It seems that saving a patient is just a personal fight for a doctor and the government and hospital administration has nothing to do with that.

Taking a note that most of the patients visiting the government hospitals are below poverty line,those who are not even capable of buying a disposable syringe. Have you ever heard that a single disposable syringe being used 4-6 times across 2-3 days to give iv drug therapy.

These things do happen in government hospitals where supply of syringes,gloves and other necessary stuff is far short of what is needed.We are told that government is short of supply which is well expected when the government expenditure on healthcare is less than 2 % of GDP.

The hospital management being headed by short sighted-about to retire doctors-with political influence  who are not motivated to work for positive change ,they are just too short sighted to foresee the requirements of their institution.

The same condition is with our politicians where their old age brings with itself the properties of Mediocrity And Inaction.

I feel that our Leaders,Politicians,Officials in government ,who are actually the people living among us may be do not know what is the taste of excellence.Or maybe they are not intellectually armed enough to get the acutual feel of the duty which has been given to them.Or maybe it is the side effect of our political system which actually has property of inaction inherent to it.

A Letter to The Director,Doordarshan

Sir,
I would like to bring  your kind attention to the fact that the Doordarshan channel in my view is our strongest tool by means of which we can bring a positive change in our society.We cannot wait for creeping plan of “Education for All” , to set in and show its effect in matter of decades.Being citizens of this country its your and my responsibility to show the people what they have not seen.While surfing through the web i came across some BBC HORIZONS Documentaries and after having seen most of them i am convinced that they have totally changed my way of thinking and my perceptions towards the world.

A big problem with education today is that students today are not motivated enough to continue their education.Their dreams actually have been infected by the quality of mediocrity of our parent generation.Nobody…not even me and you found being educated interesting because of the monotonous nature of our way of imparting education.So inspite of our best efforts of educating people many drop outs are seen from the school when a sense of economic crisis creeps into ones family.Their are no dreams with the students to help them cruise over the crisis.You might be well aware that today media has an important role to play in determining our secondry needs.Our dreams,our needs and all the things we long for are in a way influenced a lot by the media and advertisements we see everyday.So at your position you have all the power to change India,the way it is today.

Following are some of the you tube links from some of BBC HORIZONS documentaries :-

BBC-Horizon-The Six Billion Dollar Experiment

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=WvEK5uZXpZU

BBC Horizon – Human v2.0

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=ArYzyE63MH8

BBC Horizon 2006 – The World’s First Face Transplant

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=7k4LUgH0WTg

BBC Horizon – Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=b4CwrsBzWn0

BBC Horizon – The Presidents Guide to Science

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=nMa74J2RlEI

BBC Horizon – My Pet Dinosaur

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=fYIRdRaPSrk

and many more…. check out this link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/broadband/tx/

Sir if these documentaries translated in Hindi and shown will give our students a supplementary vision,a ladder to climb upon the complexities of science.Please do not be of view that Indian people in villages will not be able to understand these documentaries because they are illiterate.In addition to this please check out the links below to understand how people learn…

How People Learn:

Brain, Mind, Experience, and School

Authors:
John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking, Editors; Committee on Developments in the Science of Learning, National Research Council

Kindly Read It : http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=6160#toc

Hoping for a positive change.
Thanking You.
Indian Citizen