Dear 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?” Yes, it is if you are an experienced and accomplished surgeon. Nevertheless, storyboards help junior colleagues who are learning afresh
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 we talk for too long, I’ll forget how we started. …and next time I
Read moreA forerunner poet, Pampa, from the pre-Shakespearean era of Karnataka, wrote this beautiful poem: ಚಾಗದ ಭೋಗದಕ್ಕರದ ಗೇಯದ ಗೊಟ್ಟಿಯಲಂಪಿ ನಿಂಪುಗ ಳ್ಗಾರವಾದ ಮಾನಿಸರೆ ಮಾನಿಸರಂತವರಾಗಿ ಪುಟ್ಟಲೇ ನಾಗಿಯುಮೇನೊ ತೀರ್ದಪುದೇ ತೀರದೊಡಂ ಮರಿದುಂಬಿಯಾಗಿ ಮೇಣ್ ಕೋಗಿಲೆಯಾಗಿ ಪುಟ್ಟುವುದು ನಂದನದೊಳ್ ಬನವಾಸಿ ದೇಶದೊಳ್…. It means, “Even if I am repeatedly stabbed with a bullhook (Ankush), I still yearn to be reborn in this beautiful land
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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, heavy rain and a thick fog had reduced
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