Are we staring at a third world war? Are we at the beginning of a new world order? Where will the current international situation ultimately lead us? Can we afford a global conflict when we are just recovering from a health and economic slump due to the…
Read moreSurgical mastery is 75 percent Mindset, 25 percent handwork! Why do we need innovative learning methods? The truth is no matter how successful surgeons we become, there is always another level or something we haven’t learned or mastered. This is more so with specialities…
Read moreI am still under the spell of Christopher’s Nolan’s Inception. A powerful dialogue by the protagonist COBB has smitten me. That is, “The seed of the idea we plant will grow in this man’s mind. It’ll change him. It might even come…
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“If you dream it, you can do it.” Scene: A ROADSIDE CAFE IN PARIS. COBB: They say we only use a fraction of our brains’ true potential… but that’s when we’re awake. While we dream, the mind performs wonders. ARIADNE:…
Read moreDear all, Thank you very much for your thought-provoking feedback on my blogs and academic programs. I am pondering over three significant responses I have received. One, “we do pre-surgical planning. Isn’t it equal to storyboarding?”…
Read moreI have this condition. A condition? – Yes, it’s my memory. Amnesia? – No, no, it’s different from that. I have no short-term memory. I know all about myself, but since my injury, I can’t create new memories. Everything fades. If…
Read moreA forerunner poet, Pampa, from the pre-Shakespearean era of Karnataka, wrote this beautiful poem: ಚಾಗದ ಭೋಗದಕ್ಕರದ ಗೇಯದ ಗೊಟ್ಟಿಯಲಂಪಿ ನಿಂಪುಗ ಳ್ಗಾರವಾದ ಮಾನಿಸರೆ…
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I can still hear the battering noise of the monsoon rain. Often I count all my bones to ensure they survived the rocking jeep ride on a rickety uphill road. I was wearing a waterproof dress, but I was drenched with sweat inside. Dark clouds, tropical jungle,…
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