tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34182458104806609422024-02-28T15:48:02.112+05:30Countertrend"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind...."Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.comBlogger184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-55131756410651877002022-07-03T07:50:00.000+05:302022-07-03T07:50:10.768+05:30Moving from Sick-care to Health-care (This article first appeared in The Toad, the magazine of the Students Association of CMC Vellore, published in June 2021)Moving from
Sick-care to Health-carePradeep Ninan
Let me begin with the story of three patients sitting in the OPD in Madhipura
Christian Hospital, a mission hospital in rural Bihar.
In Room 1, we meet 50-year-old Rani (name changed) who has come for a postnatal
Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-51914925249402581202022-07-03T07:00:00.002+05:302022-07-03T07:58:22.053+05:30What a Wonderful World!Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-8569906480611515732017-06-30T08:00:00.000+05:302017-08-06T17:08:11.916+05:3020 years of Harry Potter
20 years of Harry Potter! Many, many hours of reading and re-reading, discovering how every little detail and sub-plot ties together. Months of waiting for the Deathly Hallows to come out, and reading through the night to find out how it ends. Thanks, JK Rowling, for the magic! Waiting to share this with my children. ..
#HarryPotter20Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-74194053786108321612017-06-27T20:00:00.000+05:302017-08-06T17:01:31.265+05:30We've had this happen in our home as well!
The children and I had a good laugh looking at this. Familiar territory. ...
If you liked this, you might also like:
1. There's a time to parent like a dog, and a time to parent like a cat.....
Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-81928319675605944992017-06-27T08:00:00.000+05:302017-08-06T16:53:00.907+05:30Will it be our turn next?Traveling from Delhi to Hyderabad with my family in a sleeper compartment yesterday...my wife took out the lunch lovingly packed by her mother. ..pooris with palak and chicken keema.
Before we ate, however, I surreptitiously looked both ways, remembering the story of Junaid Ahmed, the 15 year old murdered in a train while travelling between Delhi and Mathura a few days ago. Would somebody Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-86689205505400447852017-06-21T08:00:00.000+05:302017-08-06T16:40:04.169+05:30Let Introverts Be!Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-83239225862059737322017-06-17T08:00:00.000+05:302017-08-06T16:49:30.266+05:30Weep for the Garden City of my youth...
Read the entire article here: The dying of gulmohars heralds Bangalore's demise – and is a sign of urban India's forbidding future
"For every Bangalorean, there is now 0.1 tree, or a tenth of a tree. There should be 10 times that number if the city has to absorb the growing volumes of carbon dioxide from the 1,600 vehicles registered every day. "Since wide roads are being felled of trees acrossPradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-29058278271387852392017-06-02T08:00:00.000+05:302017-08-06T16:40:42.770+05:30Simple steps you and I can take to protect our environment....
Trump Pulls Out of Paris: How Much Carbon Will His Policies Add to the Air?
A detailed analysis shows how much more CO2 each of Trump’s climate policy changes would send into the atmosphere
While it is completely appropriate to feel outraged and saddened at the irresponsible actions of leaders who seem intent on taking the planet down with them, here are 10 things we ordinary citizens can do Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-58648875840641823032017-05-31T08:00:00.000+05:302017-08-06T16:28:06.248+05:30You have Two Cows.....
Here’s A Humorous Look At India & Indians Through The ‘You Have Two Cows’ Theory
If this interests you, you might also like:
1. What Mahatma Gandhi Said to Those Who Wanted Beef Banned in India
2. "To kill, to terrorise, to dominate, to create a pure and ideal kingdom."
Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-9134941249233071522017-05-29T23:00:00.000+05:302017-07-08T23:46:15.416+05:30What Mahatma Gandhi Said to Those Who Wanted Beef Banned in India"Rajendra Babu tells me that he has received some 50,000 postcards, between 25,000 and 30,000 letters and many thousands of telegrams demanding a ban on cow-slaughter. I spoke to you about this before. Why this flood of telegrams and letters? They have had no effect.
I have another telegram which says that a friend has started a fast for this cause. In India no law can be made to ban Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-46559304653381929772017-05-28T23:00:00.000+05:302017-07-08T23:40:05.627+05:30How a child is bornPhotographer Lennart Nilsson spent 10 years of his life recording the growth of the human embryo, from conception to birth.
Have a look at these photos here
If you liked this, you might also like:
1. Image bearers
2. Open Letter to M: Why abortion cannot be a matter of personal choice
Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-56701359843556145592017-05-26T23:00:00.001+05:302017-07-08T23:21:20.888+05:30GST explained in simple language
(HT: Peri Maheshwar)
Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-45364731532330904692017-05-26T23:00:00.000+05:302017-07-08T23:13:18.435+05:30The best spot in the picture!
You've got to be kidding me.....
The most powerful man on the planet acts like the schoolyard bully
Contrast that with this story from the pastPradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-29345788209253174662017-05-25T13:00:00.000+05:302017-05-29T22:27:42.558+05:30Untouchability in the 21st Century
It's not easy to shake off caste-ist ideas of untouchability when one has spent one's entire life under that worldview....
Witness the way these 2 BJP leaders responded to an unusual situation: (a Facebook post by Mohan Guruswamy)
DALIT BHOJAN: NA KHILAUNGA, NA KHAUNGA.
There is something true to form about these RSS/BJP netas. First Yeddyurappa makes a much publicised visit to a dalit home Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-88609716510693182002017-05-24T12:30:00.000+05:302017-05-29T21:05:14.790+05:30Catastrophic maternal healthcare expenses push 46.6% mothers in India into povertySome time ago, I wrote about how I was first introduced to the idea that even small amounts of out-of-pocket spending, required to pay medical bills, can push families below the poverty line.
I was, therefore, not surprised (though terribly disheartened) to find that a large study has confirmed, and quantified, this problem.
"Catastrophic maternal healthcare expenses push 46.6% mothers in IndiaPradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-38608766916624918282017-05-23T09:00:00.000+05:302017-05-29T20:18:54.599+05:30Selection biases in NEETThis is my deepest worry about the proposed National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for admission to medical colleges..
"NEET plans to not only destroy the dream of poor, rural, non-Hindi mother tongue medium students (that is, a plurality of all students) of becoming a doctor , but also wants to create a cadre of doctors who want urban and foreign careers, with lesser ties to soil and the Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-17555746419278381062017-05-21T22:30:00.000+05:302017-05-29T19:55:36.647+05:30"To kill, to terrorise, to dominate, to create a pure and ideal kingdom."7 Muslim cattle-traders were lynched in Jharkhand by a mob who, on the basis of Whatsapp rumour forwarded to them, assumed they were child kidnappers.
This is heartbreaking, but only the latest in a long and regular stream of tragedies unfolding all over the country.
This author in Jharkhand fears that this incident is not connected to the other incidents of lynchings by gau-rakshaks to enforce Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-47912505839171447642017-05-21T22:00:00.000+05:302017-05-23T09:16:16.068+05:30At 65, This Doctor Treks and Drives to the Remotest Pockets of Odisha to Save Lives
"“If hundred patients come to see me at the hospital, I know there are many more people out there who are not able to make it to the hospital,” says Dr. Sr. Aquinas Edassery, who is out on her mission to reach the most needy and the most unhealthy.
To find them, she’s going to places where there are no roads, where the first four-wheeler that the people saw was the jeep that she came in, where Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-16612025414679213402017-05-20T00:26:00.002+05:302017-05-20T00:26:51.784+05:30If I Have Enough Faith, Will God Heal Me?Randy Alcorn and Joni Eareckson Tada attempt an answer to this difficult (but, in the age of the Prosperity Gospel, often-asked) question.
(HT: Challies)
If you liked this, you might also like:
1. Prosperity and Adversity, Health and wholeness: A response to the Prosperity Gospel
2. A Nice Quote from Richard Feynman
Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-79655275377832297272017-05-18T22:20:00.000+05:302017-05-18T22:20:05.902+05:30Marriage wounds
An excellent article on the way God uses marriage to shape us and make us. Do read the rest here
"Having a spouse is like living with a mirror that constantly shows you where you are weak, where you are prideful, and how in desperate need of a Savior you really are. Chad and I never could have known, all those years ago when he slipped this ring on my finger, how much joy would really be inPradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-83305778979274860722017-05-18T10:00:00.000+05:302017-05-18T23:12:12.991+05:30Is NEET the way to select potential medical students?The practise of medicine is equally art and science. Not everything can be learnt from textbooks. This video reminded me of my own MBBS admission interview at CMC Vellore many years ago. A carefully planned, well-rounded and scientifically justified admission procedure that, in addition to assessing knowledge through MCQ tests, also assessed character, ability to work with a team, ability to Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-63519098927198832042017-05-16T21:30:00.000+05:302017-05-18T23:03:15.484+05:30The ExodusA Powerful poem by Dave Banhart. (Posted in full here for those who might not click over to https://davebarnhart.wordpress.com/2017/05/05/the-exodus/)
The Rich Man and Lazarus by Frans Francken III
I have seen your religion, and I hate it.
I have heard your doctrine, and I loathe it.
Take away your empty praise songs,
your vacuous worshiptainment.
Your mouth is full of religious words,
but Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-32027345562672416982017-05-16T15:00:00.000+05:302017-05-18T22:50:41.752+05:30Nothing Motivates like a Big Vision
If you liked this, you might also like:
1. Wise Words from Dr Seuss
Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-16370280451227046202017-05-15T13:30:00.000+05:302017-05-18T22:44:34.248+05:30Inflated Girl Child Numbers Behind Haryana’s ‘Remarkable’ Improvement in Sex Ratio, Finds AuditA Beti Bachao Beti Padhao audit has discovered the truth behind how Haryana achieved a massive improvement in its notoriously low sex ratio.
Inflated Girl Child Numbers Behind Haryana’s ‘Remarkable’ Improvement in Sex Ratio, Finds Audit
Do read on to discover how a little window-dressing, and fudging of the data can make it look like things are improving, (and that India is shining!) when, in Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3418245810480660942.post-14885938009023637862017-05-15T10:30:00.000+05:302017-05-18T22:36:30.014+05:30In His Image
Recently, the Indian Express carried an interesting report on the RSS goal of setting up "Garbh Vigyan Anusandhan Kendras" in every state of the country. The goal of these kendras was to promote the delivery of 'fair, tall and customised' babies in India.
"THREE MONTHS of “shuddhikaran (purification)” for parents, intercourse at a time decided by planetary configurations, complete Pradeephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07696126197283766968noreply@blogger.com0