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I read an interesting story about Jews in Mumbai in last week’s issue of Outlook.
One statement stood out in the story…
What enabled the Bene-Israeli Jews, India’s largest and oldest Jewish community, to maintain their faith in isolation from Jews worldwide? Esther David calls it “nothing short of a miracle”. India is the only country in [...]

The bastards are at it again…
It is now Mumbai’s turn after London and Madrid…
Truly we live in a global village..
with the same group of bullies terrorizing the innocent.

This is not about me trying to lose weight.
After a long absence Suresh is back in blog land with a great story about how to lose weight.
PS. It is definitely not about his ongoing efforts to lose weight either.

An opinion in today’s The Hindu by a journalist who lives in Mumbai prompts me to wonder if I was too hasty in posting this.

THE SUN shone on Friday and Mumbai slipped off the national news. But did it deserve to be there in the first place? This is a question many of us, who [...]

Medline Plus, the online medical encyclopedia defines an ectopic pregnancy as one that occurs when a fertilized egg implants in tissue outside of the uterus, and the placenta and fetus begin to develop there. The most common site is within a fallopian tube.
In a typical ectopic pregnancy, the fertilized ovum (embryo) implants in the lining [...]

The monsoon has arrived in Mumbai and so have the floods….
The news channels are probably rerunning their recorded footage from last year. It makes economical sense not to waste precious film on something that they already have in their archives.
Sounds callous?
But its the same kind of reasoning that the governing authorities in Mumbai followed after [...]

Parts of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and northwestern Tamil Nadu have been affected by an epidemic of a mysterious fever associated with arthralgia for nearly two months now.
The fever has been classified as ‘Chikungunya‘ based on the clinical features - moderate fever with mild to severe arthralgia. There has been no report of an assoicated maculopapular [...]

The picture is an artist’s depiction of the ancient Indian Surgeon Susrutha at work.
Happy Doctor’s Day to all my friends in the med-blogosphere.