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Tag: points to ponder

  • An Eye Camp At Mudradi.

    One of my favourite towns to visit are Mudradi, and Hebri the towns that would figure in my father’s childhood tales. My father Prof. Dr.Srinivasa Rao P.N. has been an legend during his life. An renowned ophthalmologist, alumnus of Modern high school Udupi, St. Aloysius  Mangalore , Madras Medical college,  Lucknow Medical College, he founded…

  • sanitation for the roadside worker

     The World Health Organization states that: “Sanitation generally refers to the provision of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human urine and faces. Inadequate sanitation is a major cause of disease world-wide and improving sanitation is known to have a significant beneficial impact on health both in households and across communities. The word ‘sanitation’ also…

  • Put Em-Rights.

    Put Em-Right was a book written by Enid Blyton, where a bunch of kids went around correcting people eventually discovering that their very behavior was judgemental and obnoxious. Vatsala’s brother translated a classic text of an ancient language to English, he was very clear it was a rendering and not a translation. Yet, Vatsala took the trouble…

  • Steps to freedom.

    Changing what is not working. I am sure most of you some point or the other have been where I have been, that realizing something in our life is not working. It starts as a doubt, then nags and eventually we reach a point where we say ,”yes things have to change.”  We go about…

  • When the world falls apart

    Home is where you go to find solace from the ever changing chaos, to find love within the confines of a heartless world, and to be reminded that no matter how far you wander, there will always be something waiting when you return.” ― Kendal Rob When My World Fell Apart The first time I could…

  • why not now?

    Whenever I had a new sari, I would keep it in, and save it to be draped for the first time. there were times when in an emergency I would gift the sari away to someone else and tell myself,”Khane wall eke naam dhane dhane pe likah hai.” Then my world began to crack, I…