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That was the first thing that I thought after I read the leader page article by Prof. K. S. Jacob in The Hindu on Thursday.
We need people like this as policy makers. Especially at times like these when those that rule are looking for band-aid solutions like medical conscription to patch up a badly ailing [...]

This is in support of the token strike by medical students in Tamil Nadu [News reports here & here].
As usual the print media devoted a few column inches to the strike and promptly forgot about the issue after the processions and strike were over. I do not know if the TV news shows provided any [...]

Talk during today’s morning walk turned to the Virginia Tech Shooting.
Suresh agreed with the sentiments expressed by Mathew Scheeberger (in this article). The fact that Scheeberger is from Cleveland, Ohio would anyway have found favour with Suresh as a former resident and a student at CSU.
I had just learnt from the article that [...]

The Virginia Tech Massacre is shocking at many levels: the utter waste of so many lives, the awful security on campus, the failure to inform students about the extant danger, etc.,
And it affected someone too close to home…
G V Loganathan, a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who graduated from IIT Kanpur and completed [...]

Responding to my previous post Aphra Behn, the author of the series of posts that I had linked to, says…
“The exploitative cynicism of the British Government and the opportunist racism of parts of the British medical establishment in this whole situation disgusts me.”

She also suggests further reading for “those considering coming to the UK” [...]

Please read Dr Michael C. Hébert’s impassioned plea to impeach Bush
A Declaration in Support of the Impeachment of President George W. Bush
As I said in my comment on his post, “Though posted as a plea to right-thinking Americans to ‘do their duty,’ this is a message that should be read by citizens of every democratic [...]

Warning: This post is about an atrocity that occurred in Tamil Nadu seven years ago & it supports the death penalty. Those not interested may skip it.
SALEM: Holding the causing of death of three young women in a bus-burning incident near Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu in February 2000 as the “rarest of the [...]

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