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This is for my blog & twitter friend lekhni, who asked me on twitter a few days ago.
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lekhni @scanman I’d love your thoughts on this http://www.nytimes.com/2008… 2:59 AM Oct 15th from web in reply to scanman

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The link, to an article in The New York Times, was about, as [...]

[Image Credit - The Hindu Magazine article]

The Hindu’s Sunday Magazine had an interesting article titled “Cheers in Chinese” by Pallavi Aiyar in the society section yesterday. I would suggest reading the short article before you read further here.
I found it to be interesting at many levels, not least for the opening anecdote.
“Premier Zhou Enlai [...]

The subtext of this post is obviously my inability to comprehend the high costs of healthcare in the USA. I am not going to add anything new to the arguments for or against defensive medicine. This debate has been raging in some corner or the other ever since the medical blogosphere came into existence.
What prompted [...]

A simplified version of the stages of Behavioural Development…

A Need arises.
Tension results.
Activity ensues to resolve Tension.
Satisfactory Resolution is made.
A Habit is formed.
Habit becomes Drive.

I cannot remember where I read this or if this is entirely correct.
Blogging is a habit formed because of the basic need to express myself. [...]

The first part of this story is here…
Serendipity & Zemblanity
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My apologies to Lakshmi for forgetting the fourth mango. We had also planned to visit my blog friends Arunn & Lakshmi in Chennai. When I met them the first time in 2006, I had promised them that I would visit again with my wife and daughter. [...]

Warning: This is a rare personal post and is also a (rarer) medical post.
This started off as the long version of my response to a question that JMB had asked while commenting on this post, where I had wondered if there is a word which is the antonym of serendipity. Cathy was good enough [...]

Almost all of us have heard the word ’serendipity’ or we are aware of the concept of ‘the discovery of something not sought.’
It is commonly taken for granted that the discoveries were good ones, hence the word is almost synonymous with unexpected good fortune.
Serendipity
–noun
1. an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
2. good [...]

A few days before Dr. Rob posted this, we got our local cable guy to disconnect us.
We have not had a functioning idiot box in the house for a week now!
Arunn and Lakshmi deserve a big thank you for inspiring us to do this.
I don’t know if it has been a change for the better.
I [...]