Meera thinks that calling someone a “retard” is not so funny when you are at the receiving end, and it constitutes insensitive humour. There is a nice comic on her blog as well!
‘Retardation’ is a condition that people are born with and hence cannot help.
According to me, any casual use of and jokes involving terms [...]
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Stop calling someone a retard
Published by January 26th, 2010 in Art, Health, Prejudice and Society. 3 CommentsHelp eradicate polio from India: join hands with an ongoing venture at www.poliofreeindia.org. Little matching donations, as little as Rs. 10 would help. If nothing else, please tweet this:
Polio Free India – http://www.poliofreeindia.org/. Help with the final push to eradicate polio in the world! #poliofreeindia
Jyoti Basu…. A trend setter in death
Published by January 19th, 2010 in Health, India and Society. 0 CommentsStates usually would spend tons and tons of money on their politicians, just to keep them “alive”. But he went one step ahead, in his death he has shown us all a path towards immortality. He decided to donate his body for a very noble cause – medical research.
Bibilophile pays a an apolitical tribute to [...]
Drinking Away to doom
Published by January 8th, 2010 in Consumer, Culture, Health and India. 0 CommentsThe advent of Twenty Ten (2010) fetched 47 crore rupees for TASMAC shops in Tamil Nadu. Chennai topped the list with 7 Crores. Since Beer was shortage, Brandy and Whisky were bought by the revelers of the New Year.
And most important, 60-70% of the new year revelry was by the Youth, the future of this [...]
South Asia’s children…
Published by November 6th, 2009 in Children, Education, Food and Health. 0 CommentsRakesh Mani thinks that there has to be something wrong with Indian society for it to allow its children to be among the most deprived and malnourished in the world. Across castes and social classes, there is so little attention given to the inalienable right of a child to enjoy a childhood of good health, [...]
India and HDI ranking
Published by October 8th, 2009 in Democracy, Development, Economy, Education, Health, Human Rights and India. 4 CommentsLekhni is ‘rapidly coming to the conclusion that 15 minutes of fame’ is all the UNDP’s Human Development Index list deserves:
But the last part is the best – the report says they take an average of life expectancy and literacy and GDP, and compute the average HDI for that country.
This means that if you have, [...]
Lalit shares his experiences working in rural Tamil Nadu as a medical officer. Good read with some nice pictures.
I learnt more in the two years I spent working with Dr. Regi and Dr. Lalitha than in all six years at college. One of the advantages of working in a rural hospital is that senior doctors [...]
Medical Council of India: The Rot Within
Published by September 10th, 2009 in Activism, Corruption, Health, India and Justice. 1 CommentVijay , a medical blogger has cited a fellow medical blogger and colleague Dr. George Paul ,a highly respected teacher and practitioner who is well known in the dental & maxillofacial surgical fraternities. He and a group of like minded individuals have been actively involved in increasing awareness about irregularities in the functioning of private [...]
Rich and Healthy in India….
Published by September 5th, 2009 in Capitalism, Economy, Health and India. 1 CommentEven as the USA continues to debate health care reform, Colin, a die hard capitalist ideologue based in Washington DC basing his hypothesis on a Salon article,suggests that perhaps the country that ought to most closely studied by the Obama administration is India, which has taken a much more free market approach.
He quotes Aruna Viswanatha, [...]
Petition for Patients’ Rights
Published by July 2nd, 2009 in Activism, Health, Human Rights and Justice. 0 CommentsJan Arogya Abhiyan, an NGO working to defend and foster people’s right to health care in Maharashtra addresses a Petition to the Minister for Public Health and Family Welfare, Maharashtra, urging the Maharashtra government to adopt the Standard Charter of Patients’ Rights:
We believe that in Doctor-Patient relations, patients are inherently vulnerable. Hence they need to [...]
E-Campaign for Patient Rights
Published by June 30th, 2009 in Activism, Democracy, Health, Human Rights, India, Justice, Policy, Recommended Links, Regulation and Society. 1 CommentAditya’s 3 year old son was prescribed a drug overdose by a pediatrician for the recurring fever. This led to very severe consequences and the child needed ICU care for 3 days and a painful process of recovery due to this excessive medication. Aditya wanted to register his complaint against the pediatrician and the hospital [...]
“Do Japa and Tapa To Get Better”
Published by June 16th, 2009 in Business, Corruption, Health, Violence and Women. 0 CommentsMad Momma posts the horrifying true story of a victim of neglect and a lot else at a corporate hospital:
The OT wasn’t on standby, wasn’t ready. I was numb with pain. They wanted me to get up and move to the operation table. I couldn’t move. They eventually slid something under my back and I [...]
‘New Governance’
Published by June 12th, 2009 in Development, Education, Government, Health and Policy. 0 CommentsVikranth thinks the government’s agenda of inclusive growth would be meaningless if it isn’t backed up by reforms in governance:
In a recent survey conducted by an Hong-Kong based consultancy ranked Indian bureaucracy as least efficient in Asia and termed as “slow and painful and a power center in their own right”. After the economic reforms [...]
Yet another farce?
Published by May 24th, 2009 in Adivasi, Caste, Dalit, Democracy, Education, General Elections 2009, Health and Politics. 0 CommentsKarthik RM asks questions that weren’t raised in the recent polls:
For the poor, however, the polling booth is one place – in my opinion, the only place where democracy functions. This again, when you exclude cases of booth capturing or rigging. Democracy, otherwise, doesn’t exist for the underprivileged in India. The country’s healthcare sector is [...]
Wish List
Published by May 19th, 2009 in Business, Caste, Education, Government, Health, Human Rights and Policy. 0 CommentsHarini writes a letter to the new Government, listing out a few basic expectations:
a) Education – If you haven’t noticed – there is a caste system been created in education. The way the system is moving there are one set of institutes for the middle class and one set for the poor. The former delivers [...]
Prasoon S Majumdar points out how west-born diseases, like many other things that come with a ‘foreign’ label, gain such large attention in India:
For all the hype around swine flu and its elder brother, i.e. bird flu, India remains unabashedly indifferent towards the mayhem created by killer epidemics present and prevalent in India. Each year [...]
Do the poor matter?
Published by May 13th, 2009 in Democracy, Development, Economy, Education, Food, General Elections 2009, Health, Human Rights, India, Politics and Poverty. 1 CommentAdnan talks to Panditji and Aslam:
Aslam has also his share of problems. “If I manage to sell groundnut worth Rs 150, then I save Rs 40-60 per day but that’s not enough to meet my expenses”. On bad days he makes Rs 30.
He has a wife and a young kid. Wife makes carry bags out [...]
All this hustle and bustle
Published by May 11th, 2009 in Culture, Environment, Health, India, Misc, Society and Spotlight Series. 2 Comments[ This is Essay No. 38 in our Spotlight Series. Click here for the archives.]
All this hustle and bustle
by Usha
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As a nation we seem to have great tolerance for noise. It is silence that makes us uneasy. 25 years ago our neighbourhood was considered a suburban area and there were few houses and fewer [...]
Should I drink all of 5 liters in the morning?
Published by April 9th, 2009 in Health, Humour and Society. 0 CommentsAhh, the things you get asked by patients when you are a doctor:
So this patient of mine (and it was a tough day, lemme tell ya) is asking me in my Outpatient Department room, “So, Doctor, when you say drink a lot of water, why do you say that?”
Me: “Because it is getting hot, and [...]
More news unveils from the happenings at IIT Kharagpur, and it seems not everything is what the officials want us to believe. Here is what Rahul Munshi reports:
Meanwhile some attempts were being made to prevent students from having any further opportunity to unite. The British divide and rule policy has become such a household stuff [...]
Bindu takes us to history of Tierra del Fuego in South American continent where the descendants Mannekenk and Selknam lived till 1869 and then died out, due to exposure to different ways, diseases.
The fact that utterly fascinates me is that only the women could swim. And since the Yamana didn’t wear any clothes, these amazing [...]
Indians aren’t lab rats
Published by February 17th, 2009 in Activism, Announcement, Capitalism, Government, Health and Science & Technology. 3 CommentsSejal demands that the world should know this:
Three months ago, a nation-wide campaign opposing Genetically Modified (GM) crops, under the banner of ‘I am no lab rat‘, was launched. GM food is created by taking genes from organisms like bacteria, viruses, spiders, scorpions and forcibly inserting them into the genome of brinjals, potatoes, corn etc., [...]
Bringing tobacco to the children via surrogate advertisements
Published by February 5th, 2009 in Children, Health, Media and Television. 1 CommentA lot of youtube videos and independent survey statistics at the India Matters blog expose how the surrogate advertisements are subtly affecting our youth and encouraging them to take up tobacco in some form or the other:
According to research done by the Salaam Bombay Foundation, 3260 children between the age of 12 to 17 years [...]
Cigarette smoking ban actually increases health risks
Published by January 24th, 2009 in Business, Economy, Government and Health. 4 CommentsOr so says the Unpretentious Diva:
What if government increase hyper-taxes on tobacco, will it help?
Banning or restricting any thing never helps anybody, yet it increases black-marketing, it increases smuggling, and to counter all that, government will need a new force to control smuggling and black-marketing of Tobacco. In addition, black-marketing always increases consumption because it [...]
The Hippocratic commission
Published by January 24th, 2009 in Business, Health and Society. 0 Comments“So, which doctor referred you here?” – does that sound familiar? Basskeyz tells us that lately there have been instances where it seems that going to a doctor sometimes is not such a healthy proposition, with the hidden nexus of kickbacks and commissions based on who can drain the patient’s pocket the most:
If you [...]
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