The house of intellectuals

lord is one

2011-01-19T18:01:00.000-08:00

undying creator , with no fear or hate,
self existing person acheived by guru's grace
lord is one, truth is lord

true through out ages, and forever true,
slave to his will, we come and go,
lord is one, truth is lord.

some call him jesus, ram or allah,
some visit temples, church or mecca,
some read bible , vedas or koran,
some call them christians , hindu , musalman
lord is one, truth is lord

a few blessed ones contemplate shabad guru,
they meet the god, dhan dhan granth guru
lord is one, truth is lord.

ਪੰਜਾਬਿਯਤ, پنجابی , punjabiyat

2011-01-18T22:13:00.000-08:00

http://www.punjabri.com/2011/03/punjabiyat.html

Intra-abdominal Abscess

2010-11-14T15:32:00.000-08:00

Category: Clinical Vignette Poster Competition
Institution: The Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science Program
Abstract Title: Intra-abdominal abscess...What to expect?
Abstract Text:

Case Presentation: A 58 year old male admitted with abdominal pain, acute onset, two days duration, 10/10, diffuse, sharp, non-radiating, no alleviating factors, associated nausea and an episode of vomiting. He had a similar but mild intensity pain in belly 2 weeks back which was symptomatically treated. He documented increased frequency of flatus and decreased appetite without any change in the bowel movement since 2 weeks. He denied weight loss, fever, chills, and recent use of drugs. His past history was significant for an episode of acute pancreatitis 20 years back, hepatitis C, sarcoidosis, alcohol abuse and cocaine dependence. On physical exam, he appeared calm without acute distress, T: 36.6 C, BP: 130/70 mm Hg, P: 86/min, RR: 16/min. Abdomen was soft, non-distended and tender with rebound tenderness. Bowel sounds were normal and rectal exam negative. Rest of the systemic examination was benign. Blood work revealed WBCs 4.4K/uL. Serum amylase, lipase, LFTs, urinalysis and UDS were negative. CT abdomen without IV contrast showed a mixed density lobular soft tissue mass about 3.0 x 2.2 cm at ileocecal junction with fat stranding consistent with loculated fluid/abscess or necrosis within the mass. As the mass was not accessible to percutaneous drainage, laparotomy with a partial colectomy was done on third day of admission. Post operative course was uneventful, and patient remained afebrile with normal WBCs all through his hospital stay. Pathology of the mass revealed an abscess cavity located 0.6 cm from the appendix and 0.5 cm from the terminal ileum, just deep to the colonic mucosa consistent with perforated cecal diverticulum with marked acute inflammation without any evidence of malignancy or an inflammatory bowel disease.

Discussion: Intra-abdominal abscess is a localized collections of pus that is confined by an inflammatory barrier i.e. omentum, inflammatory adhesions, or contiguous viscera, usually infected with both aerobic and anaerobic microbes. Its common etiologies are perforation of a diseased viscous, gangrenous cholecystitis, mesenteric ischemia with bowel infarction, pancreatitis or pancreatic necrosis progressing to pancreatic abscess, untreated penetrating trauma, and postoperative complications. Computed tomography is considered the best diagnostic imaging method with >95% accuracy. Treatment is with empirical antibiotics beginning prior to drainage. Percutaneous CT-guided catheter drainage has become the standard treatment of most intra-abdominal abscesses, which is effective in 90% of patients who have a single, unilocular abscess without any enteral communication. Surgical drainage becomes mandatory if residual fluid cannot be evacuated. Surgical approach may be either laparoscopic drainage or open (laparotomy) drainage.

Conclusion: Intra-abdominal abscess/abscesses are highly variable in presentation. Most of the patients have persistent abdominal pain, focal tenderness, spiking fever, prolonged ileus, leukocytosis, or intermittent polymicrobial bacteremia, but many of these classic features may be absent and merit constant vigilance.
DateTime: Fri Aug 20 15:00:22 2010

T cell tracking

2010-05-27T12:32:00.000-07:00

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20495571

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100527101504.htm

Y N Sharma

2010-03-31T18:43:00.000-07:00

http://www.saikapiansabroad.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=268:a-diamond-in-the-rough&catid=32:memories-a-stories&Itemid=119

The Eternal Guru

2009-11-26T12:58:00.000-08:00

"The Eternal Guru"

The Confusion1

I had a confusion, a significant one.
Am I a Muslim? Am I a Christian?
Am I a Sikh? Am I a Hindu?
Am I from "One"? Am I from "None"?

I kill for survival, mistreat animals.
I uproot plants, isn’t I an animal?
I want to wear the best clothes, I kill worms by boiling them,
Am I a Sikh? Am I a Muslim?

I want to go to the rarest places,
I plunder nature endangering all races.
I do not care for my children,
Am I a Sikh? Am I a Christian?

I work less, I want more,
I bad mouth colleagues, act like a cheat. I never care, and blindly mistreat.
Others are inferior, I am full of wisdom.
Am I a Sikh? Am I a Muslim?

I make rules, like an emperor,
I make bombs, I explode them everywhere. I scare others, and even kill them.
Am I a Sikh? Am I a Muslim?

I make boundaries, and act to be national savior.
I make conspiracies, to weaken the neighbors.
I distort history, I poison education.
Am I a Sikh? Am I a Christian?

I use science, I know it works.
I cannot kill my fears, don't know why it hurts.
When will I meet my God, and get enlightened.

Am I from "One"? Am I from "None"?

The Contemplation

Confused in this world, I was randomly roaming,
Ignorant of Guru Granth2, and brain storming.
The science3 of the Guru Nanak, remained so near to me,
despite being born to a Sikh, I did not read thee.

Why I am supposed to be a Sikh, and wear swords,
A zillion confusions made me contemplate Guru's words.
As I kept reading, my mind felt calm,
Solutions to the puzzles, came as a balm.

I am an animal, an animal supreme,
And call myself wise, just to boost my esteem.
I will not be wise, till I shed the sins4 and practice virtues5,
I will remain an animal, till I try to find the truth6.

Truth is in the word of Guru,
Truth is its interpretation with full integrity7.
Truth is art, truth is science and truth is philosophy,
Truth is God, and truth is in His generosity8.

In The Guru's Praise

Guru Guru Guru Guru, Dhan dhan Granth Guru,
I read Guru, I need Guru, I heed Guru,
Bible, Quran, all Vedas Guru9, Dhan dhan Granth Guru.

Allah, Buddha, Jesus Guru10. Ravidas, Kabir, Farid Guru.
Nanak, Arjun, Gobind Guru. Dhan dhan Granth Guru.

Protector Guru, Instructor Guru. Japo, namo, WaheGuru.
Living11, unique12, supreme Guru. Mine, your, our Guru.
Dhan dhan Granth Guru, Dhan dhan Granth Guru.

Prayer to the Guru

Guru Granth, please give me strength, I should stand in truth's defense13.
May I fight with full determination, and spread your light into every nation.
I imbibe all the virtues14 and shed every sin15,
With Guru's blessings, may I win.

Please shower your blessings on every Sikh,
Help him meditate, live honestly and share success16.
Give him courage to follow your directions, pray to you and get instructions,
May he use your wisdom and promote universal integration17.

Index:

1. First state of the author’s mind which brought him closer to SGGS. On contemplating the Shabad Guru, author finds a pristine message, praises the Guru and prays to Him. 2. Nanak Singh Nishter: Authenticity of Sri Guru Granth Sahib is Beyond Challenge, Sikh Review, August 2009; 3. Nanak and Science; 4, 15. SGGS Page 600, Five Evils; 5, 14. Five Virtues ; 6. SGGS Page 20. Line 2; 7. SGGS Page 24, Line 1; 8. SGGS Page 25, Line 13; 9. SGGS Page 397, Line 7, SGGS Page 1350, Line 5; 10. Different names of God given by human beings, 11. Living Guru; 12.Unique Guru; 13. Inspiration from ‘Deh Siva Bar Mohe’; 16. Three pillars of Sikhism; 17. SGGS Page 611

Ctrl F + G Singh

2009-11-13T18:38:00.000-08:00

http://www.ipita-ixa2009.org/documents/IPITA-IXA_programme.pdf

All’s Not Well That Doesn’t End Well

2009-11-13T18:30:00.000-08:00

http://www.saikapiansabroad.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=201&Itemid=1

Saheli Computer Classes

2008-12-15T19:57:00.000-08:00

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/emailAlbum?uname=gurbakhshishsingh&aid=5280230177160649473

The pictures from a class where I work as a volunteer teacher for adult computer literacy in US.

You may have problem in accessing pics, if I haven't sent you the link personally.I apologize!!

For link to the organization: http://www.saheliboston.org/index.html

Kach da glass

2008-09-29T08:52:00.000-07:00

Just skip first 50 seconds of the audio and then listen to it.

I would say this song is amongst billee paaji's best.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/1963817795ea57c1/

Billee Bhaaji

2008-09-28T13:55:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/user/gurbakhshish

Paradoxical Outcomes

2008-09-22T20:22:00.000-07:00

It started in my early twenties when I openly rejected first offer to partake Alcohol and has ever since continued the same vow to date (except one instance, as noted earlier). But it has in no ways deterred my jovial lifestyle and I had always been among the party boys. As an adaptation to the missing beverage, Regular Coke (or Classic Pepsi) became my party partner. Dancing to the beats with a glass of Pepsi in hands, it never happened that I was found to be in lesser spirits than those 'Talli-boys'.

Today after a Transplant Workshop at the BWH (one hospital), I actually realized that despite my 'Sacred Vow 'I have done nothing good to my body as in the long run as I just replaced intake of one addiction with another i.e. Coke above Beer. There has been no gains as in pursue of preventing Cirrhosis I have only ended up promoting atherosclerosis unknowingly and meanwhile also lost the opportunity of enjoying pro-cardiac effects of Wine.

30 minutes prior to this 'realization' I had more to worry. One friend was dictating the role of Carbon Monoxide (at conc. of 150 ppm) in preventing the transplant rejection and also improving Cardiovascular function. Indirectly, it wont be too early to say that this Harvard study will be followed by more of them about the role of 'Smoking{may be in smaller doss} (as it produces CO) in preventing Cardiovascular deaths'. Does it mean that I will have to repent one day for being a non-smoker, although the science of today believes that 'Smoking is the leading cause of Morbidity among humans '. Despite this kin, I have no doubts in believing that the studies finding the protective roles of Smoking will be receiving Mega-dollars in funding and unlimited Propagandized Marketing.

Once again, the fate of one out of many lessons I learned from my parents have been found to be paradoxical, although I still continue to believe in the original manuscript. It makes me wonder once again about an honest existence of dishonest God, who created life in one of his whims and has since tried enough to end its own creations.

Home

2008-09-11T18:32:00.000-07:00

Courtesy: Google Earth

Boston Marathon

2008-06-14T17:45:00.000-07:00

Inspirational moment to see the determination defying age.

Not just a few in number, they exceeded 75,000

I as an audience in this drama of life!!

Visakhi Parade NY

2008-06-14T17:42:00.000-07:00

Nature braves Nature

2008-06-13T16:06:00.000-07:00

Boston Storm

2008-06-13T14:40:00.000-07:00

Decriminalise Prostitution

2008-05-23T11:36:00.001-07:00

It’s good we as society are accepting Aarushi’s murder in Noida to be the consequence of male prejudice in society which prefer a honorable death for the females than allowing her a extra-indulgent life. Probably that’s why I can see some sane blogs in air criticizing this immaturely heinous act.

These type of individual acts of impatience have been happening in past and will continue to happen due the silent changes taking in the value system of our society. Some because of so called dark customs of past and others because of so called over bright expectations of future. Thus, I choose to keep this discussion in my private domain to think and adjust my life as per my experiences, just expecting myself to be a good human in the end.

However, what is of prime importance for us in the society as a whole is to open up and give all humans their right to choose mating partner especially for those females who are surviving outside the family system of our society without adding moral obligations. I am talking about the Legalization of female prostitution by the moral brigade fighting inside the corridors of power. To end a personal and male moral bias I would like to extend my request for adding male prostitution to this legal action.

It makes no sense to force the women and men who fed up of our system to follow the practices of our system. It has been rightly pointed out by mature friends that “Arushi’s father must have let her pass through the bad moments of night and taken her into confidence later on to change for the better than finishing her story at first instance”. Similarly won’t it make a better sense if we as a collective society allow the women in prostitution to go through their bad times and meanwhile trying to build confidence in them for the society to come back and become a part of it rather than incarcerating and stigmatizing them for their failure in life.

Instead of blaming Aarushi’s mother “Sati Vrata” for letting her husband silently go through these heinous acts shouldn’t we be blaming every single women in the Indian society who wants her morality not to be contaminated by the legal “Kulta’s ”around her sight and thus paradoxically end up getting these helpless women murdered directly and indirectly by those in power. Imagine if Arushi’s mother had a open clarity with her husband’s choices then she would have been the first informant of his habits and not the domestic help whose intention would have been nothing more than some rupees and some free sex.

Fortunately, in Aarushi’s drama one criminal (domestic help) had been killed by another criminal who has been also caught but at heavy cost of one tender life and three different families (Arushi’s, domestic help's and her father’s lover’s).

But nature is not so kind every time. It does not give a chance to the Illegal prostitutes to kill either the pimps or the pimp seekers. To add on their problems are the Human faced animals in disguise of Khaki and White clothes.

Won’t it make a bigger and wiser sense if we let every Aarushi to make her choices and parent her rather than brutally murdering her?

E-Back Family

2008-05-19T20:49:00.000-07:00

There should be no word as “Caste” in modern day vocabulary of an Indian. It depicts the weakness in our system to finish the weaknesses it was born with.

Letting the word “Caste” pass to the future generations will mean that we died without finishing the weaknesses our parents gave us in inheritance.

The bigger disaster happening in today’s society is the failure of humanity to prevail over the animal side of human brain. Experience has shown that although our human side tends to being yet everlasting changes but with a short span of life and animal laws of procreation we as individuals keep sailing in this tide of animosity.

Great men like Nanak took an opposite direction to society of their times fruitfully stamped their impressions forever. It took likes of M K Gandhi to realize that morality should prevail in our actions yet you, we and I often tend to overrule him.

The ideologies of separatism whether soft or hard can guide most of our decisions if allowed to be commanded by animal instincts. Political parties have slowly allowed the faithful ideologies of the nationhood to be infiltrated by such attitudes. Call it as the general degrading of our values in this universal tide of entropy or the inability of us mortals to fight with the disease of materialistic passions of which “Power” is supreme.

Reservation System in it core was designed by wise forefathers to fight with the weaknesses they were born with but with the demise of its vanguards Animal brain has has used it to “Divide and Rule”. Time is ripe when we must use our human brain and humane technology to guide one balanced policy or be ready to loose the hard earned gains of humane democracy to a future Jungle Raj. It will be playground where there will be more Mandals and Maha-Mayawati’s reincarnating forever and either “softly” or “hardly” will keep trying to convince the weakest animals that they is the only right Cheetah’s and rest everyone is a brutal animal.

Abolition of use of word “caste” while taking any future decision of India would be the first of a series of such steps. We should quickly realize that animal hindsight of an individual don’t let individuals think beyond the immediate family. “Nepotism” needs to be officially recognized as the enemy no. one and major designer of division in the society while keeping “Casteism” as a gold standard to be compared it with.

It must be followed by an end to words like SCs, STs and OBCs from our constituion while following any future policy decision. HAAS (Humanity’s affirmative action Score) should be designed keeping economically backward families (EBF) as a basic unit of our Society.

This should guide the nature of help needy strata of society must get at the critical stages of life of which “Universal and Quality Higher Secondary School Education should be a primary goal” and followed by competition among needy for the State sponsored graduation and allowing competition within the society as a whole for Post graduate education and any other employment opportunities.

If our lawmakers don’t act fast, then we all will be regressing back to the India of times in which British thought India as an easy prey to invade. Naxalites, Jihadism, and Modism are the outcomes of “Separatism” I want to fight by making everyone one understand that the major enemy of your society is not Casteism but our personal vested interests which run through Families.

Never Flamingeos

2008-05-10T18:07:00.000-07:00

There is a species of birds mostly found in Southern Africa called Lesser Flamingos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_Flamingo I dont know the reason behing calling them with this name but I firmly believe that full care might have been taken in giving them one suitable name. Poor man's son is usually called "Bechara" in India so these less important fellows might have been categorically called "Lesser",by more important Animal Sapiens.

To me they not only signify the spirit of Evolution whose final outcome is a selfish Homo Sapien's but they are also one endangered species in reality . Actually in true sense they seem to be the Ambassadors of Africa. They live on brackish waters and come back to their homes just once in a year to breed and soon their situation will be like the most of the African Men and Women living in refugee camps or brackish waters who might one day come to their home and find themselves to be in the death trap.

As per the latest rumors from the most unimportant people (whom even Indian's dont consider Important) one of their national treasures is in danger. http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jul2007/2007-07-18-02.aspIt has been pointed out by the environmentalists that newly proposed Chemical factory in Tanzania near lake Natron would change the name of this species to Never Flammingoes

This issue might not hurt the Indian Voters because its not an issue like Nandigram or Sirmur where poor farmers are loosing battle to Corporates but it will definitely put the credentials of so called environment friendly Tata Group that is boasting for the its environment friendly Tata Nano al-round on this earth.

Unfortunately their is one more thing that is hurting me now days is the complete absence of any media coverage about this possible collusion between Indian Corporates and Greedy govt. of Tanzania back home.

We Indians were all so outraged when Coca Cola refused to treat us with the same standards as they practice in the western world. Just ponder and think how outraged would be the people of these poor nations when our corporates start treating their resources as trash. Is Sunita Narain listening!!

Down today

2008-05-09T09:04:00.000-07:00

It has been over 17 years when left my home to come to the boarding school. In my earlier days I was taught that certain things on earth are Untouchable(no other word describes my feelings). Most importantly Alcohol, Smoke, Drugs and Girls:-)

Although with teh passage of years Girls was the first untouchable I had tried to touch and before concluding "Girls are a necessary evil".

But on all other fronts I had been very rigid. I remember the days when I was just a kid and I ended up lecturing the masses at Saikap when I watched floods of mob mentality and Daru.

But today I decided to give up even when no one was asking me to drink. It was about 10-15 ml of Red Wine in at least 10-15 sips.

I don't know how to really describe the taste. It was so weird and toxic.I am surprised that people still drink it with so much dedication.

One friend said "You seem to have lost your Virginity". I was an interesting remark, but its not what is worrying but its the fear that in future i wont be able to contest Padda bhaaji's champagne.Strange though, I have decided to contest it again.

UnIndian Expat

2008-05-08T16:19:00.001-07:00

I was on my way to my hospital..

A woman (35+) boarded the bus..

She came near my seat and said "Can I sit with u?"

Me: Sure..

I waslooking towards the mirror and she started murmuring something..

XX: ??????? weather ... looks good...

(It was raining outside)..

XX: You look to be an Indian..(She was looking Indian too)

Me: Yeah..

XX: If it does not rain there will be droughts

Me: May not be here..

XX: Why

Me: It's a coastal area..

XX: Are you a Sikh..

Me: Yeah..

XX: (loudly from now on)..all Sikhs are idiots.. their brains are empty...pt. Nehru made some schools for u..so u studied otherwise u all would have been taxi drivers..( i kept silently listening)
u r terrorists.. and some more expletives..

..I was thinking why is she uninhibitedly speaking this b******t

... Anyways I m a quite person now days..

XX: u killers.. u ........ u r all in Canada ..NY..CA.. keep your chopped hair with u..Its good Bush chopped your hair..

I was thinking she is either mentally challenged.. but she had wide knowhow of Sikhs..so i thought she must be a Hindu hurt in Punjab's violent days..

Me: (in low note) are u Hindu..r u from India..

XX: i m from Massachusetts.

XX: continuing with more expletives... khalistan.. Indira..Nehru..u filth..

Me: although i was now thinking to call 911 and tesch her a lesson.. but i choose to ask her lowly.. Can u please shut up..

XX: why should I shut up..and started smiling..

.. for next 5 minutes she was quite..

I wanted to change seat ..but due to little space I kept sitting..

...and...... as the bus stopped she quickly moved away..

One guy asked: Did u know her already?

Me: No...

Guy: Why u dint speak..

Me: God bless her! and I moved towards my office..

I went few steps to my hospital and literally was left crying.

Mother Earth

2008-05-05T06:33:00.000-07:00

The recent cyclone in Burma is not just an isolated event even to a common man like me but it is looking that the destiny of Earth has been written. Though, I must blame it it on the the intellectuals who by their intricate algorithms are making the end appear more painful to me otherwise I would have just instantaneously finished with everyone else, without any fear for the days to come.

Here is what they preach..http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0123-01.htm

How can I can also benefit earth by reading the work of these environmentalists and scientists. It would be possible only if the BIGGER Animals try to act on their teachings, SMALLER ones like me can only spread more fear.

But unfortunately in this battle of saving Mother Earth it seems that every one is pretending to be a smaller animal and passing the baton of being a more dangerous animal to the other persons.

I say that its not me who's dangerous its my best friend who is in the habit of wasting more electricity and paper. He says its not us Indians who are dangerous its the Americas who's per-capita consumption of food is 5 times more than Indians. American's (notably Ms. Rice and Mr. Bush in the recent days have accused the changing habits of Indians and Chinese for the Food Crises. (As per WHO "Food crises is a Silent natural disaster"). Indians and Chinese are saying that we are only finishing the bigger Fish in OCEAN so that we can safely swim in water when the Ocean water rises.

Indo- China and Brazil(bric) will not cut the consumption because they are in the incipient stage of Economic Progress. BRIC are unanimously saying America should cut its fuel consumption and they will not.

Red Comrades in India have decided that they will finish the remaining coal and oil only in India and not let US use it by refusing to sign the nuclear deal till they are not dead by suffocation due to toxic gases or by flooding in the Ocean Water.

The Researchers are warning that the cyclone's, draught and Tsunamiy will increase in number and ice will be almost gone and soon there will be 6 continents but they will never cut energy consumption by refusing to repeat the experiments which have been already done.

Interestingly, no one has decided to take axn although we have unanimously decided to warn each other but continue with the profligate habits. Do you think that the cities which have gone dark for an hour have cut the energy consumption or do you think that people of US have cut down fuel consumption despite signing Kyoto Protocol. Definitely US will cut down CO2 emission by buying more Green house credits.

I still feel I cant save my mother by changing my habits because I have been I the habit of seeing my mother die before me, although I know that Mother earth is not a good mother and she will also take me with her into the grave.

DO YOU THINK YOU CAN SAVE YOUR MOTHER???

Fear of Death

2008-04-28T13:30:00.001-07:00

Should I have a fear of death or not. Well if I go by the words of my FAther I must fear death. He quotes Guru Gobind Singh saying that fear of death keeps us away from many daily evils and keeps our mind near to God.

Fortunately or Not-fortuantely I have got many chances which made me to imagine that I will die soon. Although for a doctor it could be just called as Occupational Hazard where a single needle stick of contaminated blood can gift him with HIV or some thing more or less dangerous.

The most recent one is putting me on the risk of suspeceted Meningoencephalitis, which can be lethal if not treated properly.

Last time it was the suspected HIV positive spill of blood on the eyes that put me into agonizing time during internship days. I still remember those times when I secretly used to get my blood tested in an private clinic for Rs.300 every time, out of the my parent hospital although it would have been free for me to get it tested again and again at GMCH. I was sincerely fearing a disclosure of the status in
GMCH community if I was found positive and to add on the fear was non-availability of Prophylactic medicine at GMCH

Today I am going through the same state again. Body seems to feel the symptoms it should not feel although I know that I am a low risk contact today.

The list of undone jobs is flashing through mind again and again and to add on the pain is the worry of parents.Fortunately this time family is not as serious issue as it was in internship because now the parents have more settled family to take care of.

As routine, religious introspection is going through mind. This time out of the DABDA phases of death denial is more prominent as compared to the GMCH prick when it was the anger against Nursing Staff which was more prominent because she had intentionally changed the name of her husband to hide his ? HIV positive status.

Instead of the feeling of dying a useless death at time in internship today I am having some gut feeling of achievement without falling in life to this Animal world.

Nothing else. I must wait and watch, if I can survive to read my blog again..:-) after a few days..The probability is favoring me this time as I am taken care of by best physicians.

Indian Secret

2008-03-27T09:47:00.000-07:00

http://www.saikapiansabroad.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=125&Itemid=1

Saikap Lessons

2008-01-31T16:12:00.001-08:00

Dil ka kya kasoor

2008-01-31T16:10:00.000-08:00

Another Dil Ka Kya Kusoor…. Love story of a small town boy of SAiKAP chasing a girl of his dream.

After getting out of his school, with a cause of securing lesser percentage than required by the school; having a perplex view about life ahead; being traveled across all the probable places in his reach, to find a cause for due inspiration which can make bug in the belly move… he landed in the four walls of his house.

One early morning in the light of rising Sun, he sees a body of flesh on the roof of a house across his house. He didn’t bother much as it was nothing new than an opposite sex. Following another few more days, he sees her again and gradually without a pint of realization that it’s his habit to see her from the same window that grows to be deep liking to see her regularly.

He struggles with idea if I can go and tell her his feeling… something stops him, what to tell her; it won’t be good as he has nothing to call up his own; than his father business. Seeing his friends struggling, He started the practice to clear govt. jobs; without missing to see her every day with a dream when he can see her all the minutes in his life. The hardest of all fear that no one other than him knows; what is there in his heart, not even the girl. 

After the long continuous and sincere due diligence and effort, this year he got a seat of XXXXXXXXXX… now getting training for the same.

Now working on the true dream for a happening reality he inspired himself to do a letter for her “Dear Xyz , I don’t know even if you know my name. This is a boy you will find waiting on the only window of the house opposite yours. Then he tells that all he has achieved in the form of a job is truly her inspiration, he is here for her, this achievement in a competition only sense something, is she values it otherwise nothing… if yes will she be able to marry him.

As he never had that courage to tell her straight on face, he is writing her.

A BIG NOTE at end: if this letters falls in the hand of her mother...

Courtesy: Anonymous..
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Dear juniours,

plz dun think take this post as a career option too.......

rem sher singh sirs words.......

If u want to enjoy a few moment s in life DRINK and have fun...

If u want to enjoy few days get Married BUT.

If you want to enjoy every moment of your life. Join the profession of your choice.

I have posted this page here just to tell u guys taht dun hesitate to talk to girls.........atleast.....
teh above story is pious.... and worth revering.... but dun expect every girls is going to wait for u till the end... the world is too fast now....... but for those guys who r from lower middle class familiies .........the best advice is work for ur professional goal s... as u grow in intellect...........in the end u will find some one very good with good intellect........HAve patience!!!!!!!!

God bless with all happinesses!!!!!

Goshi... 3782

Saikap Videos

2008-01-31T16:09:00.000-08:00

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Saikap Introduction

2008-01-31T16:05:00.001-08:00

School Song

2008-01-31T16:03:00.000-08:00

Saikapian Pride

2008-01-31T16:02:00.000-08:00

Saikap.blogspot.com

2008-01-31T15:46:00.000-08:00

I am deleting my Saikap blog and taking off all the posts..w.e.f today!!!

My first post is archived here.....

Careers after Saikap: Introduction

When I came to SaiKap few months back I met RSD sir and he asked why dun I cum meet the +2 students one day and give an inspirational/ motivational lecture.

I thought… why not?

Dear friends

I am an alumnus of 1991 98 batch.

At the very onset I would like to remember YNS sir “a Great mentor” who carved me like any thing... I wish by now you would have the greatest teacher of Ur lifetimes …

Dun mind saikap is a mini world and many of you will never find replica of the adorable teachers you meet at saikap.

And my next thanks to Dr. Chetan Mittal and Dr. Dhand who were my senior and I tried to emulate…. So do have one of Ur seniors in mind that u r trying to copy... if you dun have u will miss great things in life….

The topic of today’s discussion is Careers after Saikap

The first? Which arises here why not every saikapian shud think only about NDA...?

My answer …. Well I dun know much about NDA..... I invite any of my Colleague or seniors to write about career option for an army officer.

Before writing…. let me quote words by one of our great teachers… Mr. Sher Singh

If u want to enjoy a few moment s in life DRINK and have fun...

If u want to enjoy few days get Married BUT.

If you want to enjoy every moment of your life. Join the profession of your choice.

So dear kids think before u enter into any career...

Let me tell u how make a career option...

Step 1:

First decide what u want in life as priority money, fame, adventurous life, power or what???????

Make only one choice here.

Step 2:

Now find what your strength is and what is your weakness...

1. Intelligence... R U very intelligent... one of the first 3 position holder in ur class thru out life, NTSE passes, great marks in some Olympiad etc. Or u r okay but not bad in studies or u just wasted 7 years and dun know any thing…..Well I can assure u that no one of u really fits to last category because u were once selected form ala da crème... unless u greatly messed up ur 7 years at saikap.

If u still has Bhushan sir teaching math there ask him about Ur I.Q. He judges it very well...

2. Devotion... how many hours can u devote to ur studies Religiously every day... when I say religiously I mean it... nothing shud come to ur mind except the course u r studying and u r not just pretending to study ………….as were most of the prep time s thru out 7 years at school.

3. Ability to take risk in life...

4. Parents pocket to spend on you after +2

5. Study dun in +1/ +2 at saikap….. Have u really studied throughout consistently or spent most time settling scores with juniors or visiting RAma (does it still exist there)...

6. ready ness to give-up Saikapian style of living as soon as u pass out of this institution or u still want to enjoy few more years of ur life before u really think some thing about ur self……………………………….well I can tell u one thing that is common among most of us……………………. Most of us r from village backgrounds and not very hi-fi families so none of u shud really think to afford this luxury,

Step 3:

Try to find out Ur personality suit s which career.

1. If u want lots of money and u r very intelligent in math but u dun like t o spend lot of hrs studying in later life... Go for IITs or some other high ranking engineering institute…

plus if u r a risk taker you came become an MBA later and make lots and lots of money or fame or what ever u like.. U will become

2. If ur intelligence okay and hardworking to u can choose between MBBS or IIT but if u r going for MBBS pl be sure u will not get a penny of money for next 7 to 8 years and its really hard time to study nd to study every day…. Plus u may require a lot of money after completion of MBBS if u want to settle out of country... But once settled you will have all u want…. Money, fame etc. all in same position...

And if u dun settle with MBBS after taken biology in +1/+2 u will have a chance to be BHMS/BAMS... or BSc Agriculture... I dun have much knowledge about these careers but I seek some of my friends to write future mails about these careers too.

3. If u r intelligent and hard working and u want to have powerful position later in life … try to get a working knowledge about being a civil servant in India…. It’s not tough to be one but I really demands lots of perseverance and focus here too.

4. Now if u think you r not very good in studies but want a high profile position later... then??????? Do u parental support in terms of money… then get admission into any foreign university as early as possible. But if you r good in studies and want to have foreign education and settlement later in life I will advise to get a good Indian degree first and then start exploring option.. As it will help u a lot if u can get a bit mature before finally landing in the world of opportunities.

There is a famous quote in the business community... Indian graduation and foreign (US/Canada/ Australia etc) post graduation makes the best professionals.

Well the worse scenario …………..u dun have good parental support/ u missed NDA too/ u wasted 2 years of studies in +1/+2 ???????? Hun ki kariye..!!!!!!!!

This is the category of saikapians which makes all the difference later in life... I know many friends who happened to fall in this category... but them r among highly successful persons among us...

I can advise that u guys join BSc/ BCom/ BBA/ BIT/ BALLB and so many many many options and start giving tuitions to kids in ur free time... u will get back every thing u have lost.. Plus no one knows u can a MBA at IIM one day. Just remember GENIUS is 98% perspiration and 2 % inspiration.

Pl send any article about giving Career suggestion to Saikapians I will publish it given address so that all kids have access to it for future use

Dr. Gurbakhshish Singh

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bhartha, paalak paneer, karele, Aaloo paneer

2007-10-13T20:34:00.000-07:00

bhartha...

take brinjals as per ur need n size of the vegetable.
in ur set up, when u dont have any special utensils n wnt to make it easy,

well, wash them, n take their skin off!!! yeah, u read it right, take their skin off, but rememebr, take out very thin skin. do it with knife.

wash them.
cut the dandi.

cut the veegtable into evry thin pieces.
keep aside in a plate.

take 2-3 onions.
cut them lamba lamba n patla patla.
take 2 tomatoes.
cut them in small pieces.
take 1 elaichi.
some zeera.
1-2 chillies depending on whether u want to have it routine or karaara. i take 1 thick n long chilly for it.
salt to taste.

take oil in a karahi.
put zeera, ginger paste 2 tsp, garlic paste 2 tsp in it.
2 minutes heat.
put chilly cut into small pieces n onions into it.
wait til red.
put tomatoes in it n haldi 2 tsp.
allow haldi to b cooked. low heat 5 minutes.
put brinjals in it.

allow it to heat.
10 minutes covered low heat.keep stirring in b/w.
see if brinjals have got soft.

now, if soft, start crushing with a karchchi.
crush well...crush well....crush well....

allow this to b cooked. 10-15 minutes.???

take off the stove when cooked well.
simple bartha for u.

paalak paneer

Do u have a mixer/grinder???? (U can make even without mixer/grinder.)

if u have, then make paalak paneer.

bring spinach/paalak from market. clean it with hands(time consuming n hardest job).
take the good n neat leaves out.
cut their dandis(hold 5-10 leaves together symmetrically n cut their dandis together,will make job easier).
cut the paalak into pieces if u have grinder(best option for very good preparation), if u dont have a grinder, cut paalak leaves into very evry small pieces.it will b time pass. wash it well under tap water.

put this paalak pieces into a cooker. put 3-4 glass water inot it n boil paalak. give 3-4 whistles.
take it out.
if u have grinder, put all these(not water, just the boiled leaves) into it n grind to make a paste.
if no grinder , forget it....just chchaano paalak pieces out of water.

bring cheese from market as per ur need. i think 250 gms will do well for 3 people preparation.
cut 150 gms from this 250 gms into medium or small, ur wish, rectangular medium thickness pieces.
keep aside.

take 1 medium sized onion cut into pieces.
1 chilly,cut into small pieces.
garlic paste
ginger paste.

put oil in a pan.
lao tadka with onion n pastes n chiily. put some haldi. cook it.

put paneer pieces n allow it to cook for 5 minutes. u may out 1 katori water here if it sticks.
put paalak paste if u ahve grinder, or put paalak leaves into it n allow it to cook n start crushing them with karchchi.
keep stirring n crushing til u have a fine paste.
add salt to taste.

cook for 10 minutes.
keep stirring.

its ready!!!

karele...time pass, not bhar ke.

purchase small or medium sized kareles.
take skins off with a peeler. make a cut in the center of every piece.
wash.
apply salt to every piece all over.

keep in a plate for 6-8 hrs.

take oil in a pan...n fry each piece of karela well til it turms brown. as they get fried turn by turn.

take 1 big/medium onions.cut into lamba pieces.
take 1 tomato..cut.
1 chilly
garlic paste.
ginger paste
salt etc. etc. after checking the taste of kareles....i mean first make it, in the end check salt.

make tadka like u do.

take oil in a pan...n fry each piece of karela well til it turms brown. as they get fried turn by turn, keep them in a plate nearbyu.
after doing all, put these in the tadka n cook it for 5-10 minutes.

dont even get me started on bhare karele.

Aaloo paneer

boil 3 aaloos in cooker...1 whistle.
then cut them inot small pieces.
take cheese.cut into small pieces.

maaro tadka.
put some water to make a gravvy.
put aaloo...see if they have been cooked. if they can b cut with karchchi.
now put paneer pieces.

ready!!!!

halwa, karah

2007-10-12T23:23:00.000-07:00

GB....I cant be very accurate as when I cook it, I have my own hisaab kitaab...

but u can ahve rough idea to make good krah.

Ur flour shud b completly drowned in ghee/oil, at the same time, oil shud not be floating above flour.I hope u understand the basic point.

means flour shud b completly immersed in ghee,tairda howe, par bahuta nahin,.

jinna atta, roughly onni khand jaa us to zaraa jinni ghat,bahdi ghat nahin, how can I make u understand????.

Take ghee/oil in a pan/karahi.
put 1 katori flour in it.
heat it til it is darkish brown, dont make tooooooooooooooooooo brown, or it will b bitter.
on the otehr side, take 2 katoris water n 1 katori khand( if 2 katoris aatta, 1&1/2 katori khand) n heat the water.keep it prepared before u heat atta.some people put khand into flour, but i dont find it comfortable, i prefer to add water differently to have smoother feel.

now, when the flour is brownish, add the sugar waala water in it.
n heat til entire water disappears.

thats it!!!!!

potato recipes

2007-10-12T23:22:00.000-07:00

1. Aaloo tikki.

1. Take 4 potatoes(for the beginners).
2. Wash them n boil them as such in a cooker, give 4-5 whistles.
3. take them out(after making sure that u have evaporated the steam well. Never open pressure cooker without evaporating steam.)
4 . Peel them off n keep in a big plate.
5. start mashing with spoon.
6. take 1 big onion, n cut it in the potatoes. cut it in pieces as small as possible!!!
7. take 1 chilly, cut it in onions in size as small as possible.
. if u have coriander, dhania, cut it in small pieces n add to onions,
8. add salt to taste in the plate.
9. if u have chat masala, add 1/2 spoon or as per ur taste.

10. start mixng the contents really well with a spoon, n later do it wll with ur hands. mix it very very well. no knots or big pieces....make a smooth paste.taste the salt n masala here only with ur finger tip.

11. now take a flat based pan/tawa...keep it on fire. n put oil in it. the centre of the pan shud be very thoroughly covered with oil. let it heat.doont put tooo much of oil.just enough to cover the surface well.

12. take medium to big sized peda of potato mixture in ur hand n start giving it the shape of tikki. u can either put peda in one of ur palms n give it proper shape with ur other hand, or u can keep it on a flat surface n give shape gently with ur fingers. be very gentle or the shape wont be good or it might break.

13. after assuring that the oil is hot, put this well shaped tikki on it. dont put tikki on cold oil or it will stick to it badly.
14. take a flat mouthed spoon, paltan vaala, n start repositioning it gently.if it sticks, take some oil n start spreading it on corners.
15. take it off stove when brown.
16. eat with sauce.eat hot, dont wait for all u to get together n then eat. one person keep preparing n others shud start eating.

If the tikki is not made well, u can keep this mixture for making sabzi or pranthas or sandwiches.

Boild Aaloo sabzi...another simplest one.

1. boil 4-5 potatoes in cooker. 3-4 whistles.
2. take them out n peel off their skins.cut them inot pieces roughly with a knife. dont make smooth surfaced pices. just cut them anyway.
3. take 2 onions..cut them length wise, thin pieces.
4. take 1 tomato, cut it in small pieces.
5. take 1 chilly., some garlic/ ginger.
6. coriander.

now, make the tadka with zeera(if u have zeera, out it before onions in oil.)
put onions in oil, make them brown....
I mean make tadka.put salt etc.dont forget to put haldi.
Add potatoes in it n mash them well with ur karchchi. mash them really well in ur cooking pan. make a paste. heat for 4-5 minutes.keep standing there n stirring it. NO WATER or anything!!!!
Its ready!!!!

cut coriander in small pieces n sprinkle over it....simple!!!! It will b good even without coriander.
If u r using the paste as that of aaloo tikki, dont put salt again n again...lol.

Aaloo sandwich....

Make a paste like aaloo tikki.
Spread it on a slice of bread.
put another slice over the first one.
Put in a toaster, or simple heat it....its ready. eat with sauce.

Cabbage Sandwich.....

Cut cabbage into very very thin pices..long n thin.
Take two slices of bread....place it on a flat surface, n with a knife, smoothly remove the brown linings of them.

now, spread milk cream really well on one slice.
spread the cabbage on it.
u may add salt if u want.
put another slice on it.
its ready...no heating or anything.

Poor Bayeya!!

2007-09-16T11:07:00.000-07:00

http://www.saikapiansabroad.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=117&Itemid=63

Love of a hosteller

2007-09-15T10:46:00.000-07:00

Note: Click on the pictures to get a magnified view, Thanks, GB

PS: This poem was published by me in college magazine, I Drafted the lines and Takkar provided me with the cofidental information :-)

Gamm (Memories)

2007-09-15T10:42:00.000-07:00

ps: This poem was published by me in college magazine but i DO NOT EXACTLY REMEBER IF I myself wrote it or copied from somewhere... :-)

Experiments with truth

2007-09-14T21:32:00.000-07:00

This story goes back to the days, when I was in the days of my internship and posted in the emergency surgery department.

Everything was going on fine. Patients were scant and each patient was getting full care from each of the staff members there. But it weren’t going to remain good for long. Who would know that it would become a gloomy dark for many? It did as there happened to be a massive roadside accident near-by.

Loads of patients were immediately rushed to the hospital, many dead by now and others yelling amidst pain. Everyone came to action; senior doctors did the triage and divided patients for consultants or junior doctors, depending on the type of injuries. Nurses started taking the vitals but, all miscellaneous jobs were forwarded to the junior most staff i.e. Interns.

Suddenly every doctor became overloaded with work but eventually every one had a way out to escape work by passing a part of it to the immediate junior person but me being the junior most I had no option but to carry out all the order and yet keep smiling.(hmm…It looks good).

But how long would I carry on with attention and vigor .After all, I am also a mortal machine who won’t work without food and rest. But I worked, to be a good doctor (My mentor taught me that a good doctor is one who will carry out every order selflessly without any biases for time, space or person). Any ways I kept working but suddenly in one phlebotomy my hand slipped and I suffered a needle prick. Ironically, it was the first patient I handled without gloves , as there were no more gloves in emergency ( In India, it is among the luxuries to get a glove at time when required in the Govt. run hospitals and many good souls generally carry on work with out caring for universal health precautions).

My first reflex was to clean my contaminated hand with lots of water and to ask the patient if he ever got himself tested for HIV. The patient kept quiet I dun know why, but as I inquired further I came to know that this specific patient was diagnosed HIV + in the medicine ward and as the diagnosis was disclosed to him he absconded. This time he entered the hospital by impersonating, with a wrong name and wrong address. (No one checks identity in case of emergency admission). To add further on the irony, the nurse-in charge of the ward was the wife of this patient and it was she who coerced me to give a phlebotomy to the patient, even in the absence of gloves.

My world seemed to come to an end and I was crying like any thing. The only thing I could see was my old parents giving me shoulder at my funeral. (What an irony!! They spent every penny earned in their life to make be the best out of the Indian system, and I despite being among the best and the most honest, still cannot give them a helping hand in their old age).

I thought it was all over for me, but I never realized that it was the beginning of an ordeal. I sent my blood samples to get my HIV status tested (It was –ve), and also took the dose of prophylactic HAART which was luckily available in the hospital.

Then began an endless wait for the completion of twelve week period(latent time when diagnostic tests can definitively tell the status of HIV virus inside the body) when it will be decided to whom I belong to now .Whether to the world of HIV or Can I still marry a non-HIV woman :).

They say one experiences 5 stages of Kubler Ross before death (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and Acceptance), but I experienced all these before getting finally diagnosed with HIV).

As I was partially dead, I thought it’s of no use to study medicine further but since I could not resist studying, I went to study all that was available about HIV. But to add further to my sadness I found not even a single evidence of hope. The best among the medical faculty have already declared that the cure of HIV can not be obtained without a revolutionary breakthrough in the world of nano-technology and with the given pace of progress we cannot even think of getting near any HIV vaccine for at least ten years and a cure for ten more.

As the time period of twelve weeks was ending I got prepared for the worst news. One friend said “God likes only a few people and he calls back early in their life”. I started wishing “Oh God! Please do not like me”.

Then came the D-Day; I came out untouched. Though back in the real world, I was never able to forget the childhood trauma and I got attracted to work for the HIV patients.

There are many more thoughts that I want to pen down but I cannot in this timeframe, but one thing which I always supported till date is compulsory testing of HIV for all the people without any prejudices. Otherwise, this disease would keep spreading with its present pace and engulf a vast humanity in the presence of so many ifs and buts, different cultural expectations, differences in the economic and educational status etc.

However, I am open to all opinions that contradict my experiences and beliefs.

Warm Regards,

Cake

2007-09-08T21:22:00.000-07:00

OK, So now I have decided to be a wonderful cook. Why should I not try my hands on it? What is so special with this art? I tried making cake, an easier thing by some standards at my home.
It is easy to eat it, and easier to prepare it. You too can make it,cool it n then store in refrigerator for future use with tea/coffee etc.

Here is the recipe-
1/2 kilo maida
10 eggs
1&1/2 steel glass sugar white one
oil or butter to grease.

1. Make sure that flour is even,dry,clean,very fine quality,soft soft.
2.Beat egg whites (not yellows at this stage).....beat egg whites really well,until they become very soft n smooth.Now start adding sugar to them.(the whole future of cake depends on beating only.beating means with hands n spoon,not on stove...lol)..it takes time n energy to do this....keep beating til sugar starts getting dissolved.

3. Now add egg yolks here n keep beating.
4. Now add flour ,i mean gradually,i mean thoda thoda kar ke n keep beating. Slowly and slowly, keep the entire mixture soft and well beaten.
5. Dont stop beating at any stage....
6. Keep stirring til the paste becomes very fine and very smooth.
7. Now,take a dish,apply butter to it to grease it well from all sides,all corners etc,from top to bottom.
8. Now pour the mixture into it......n cook in microwave for 3-5 minutes.
9.This quantity is huge,if u dont have one large dish,cook in different dishes.
10.Now,before making this much amount....give a trial with smaller amount first......with 100-150 gm flour,2-3 eggs,n 100 gm sugar.....to check whether u r ready to make more cake for storage etc.

Cool it,cut into slices n eat it up.... yummmy!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grape toffees, Chicken, Porridge, Jaggery rice

2007-09-07T18:14:00.000-07:00

grape toffees....if its costly,then leave it.
its just a sweet dish.

Things needed- 50-60 grapes.
sugar
water
sticks

take 50-60 grapes,firm in consistency,medium sized(not small),seedless.

take 5-6 thin but strong,15-20cm long sticks......insert 8-10 grapes,perpendicular to the direction of hole in them,u got hwat i mean????oh jithe ohna di dandi laggi hundi hai,oh direction vich nahin insert karna. in each n keep it in fridge to make them very cold.
or u can have toothpicks from the market.....the good ones,insert 3-4 or 2-3 grapes in them n keep in fridge.
make sure u ahve little space behind the grapes to handle the sticks comfortably,as u ahve to later handle the sticks on steam for 2-3 minutes.

ok,now keep grapes inserted in sticks in fridge for 5-6 hrs.

now,take a pan.........put 1-1/2 (i..note it.

whenever i warite 1-1/2......read it as one and half.)katori sugar in it. n 3/4 katori(less than 1 full) water in it......start heating.....keep stirring.ehdi chaashni banaoni hai....always for chaashni,water shud b less than the sugar.
keep stirring til it becomes thick............it will take time........but keep stirring...............make it very thick..........but avoid burning etc.

now......take the chilled grapes out of the fridge.
make sure they r cold(not frozen).

now,handle the sticks with ur hands,dip the grapes well in the chaashni......twice ir thrice......n let the chaashni spread well over them.

u will notice a shiny layer getting settled over them.

cool.........n ahve it after ur meals.

or prepare many f these kinds,store n have it when ever u feel like.

its very easy if u can prepare.

For chicken....

chalo.......

take chicken,500g clean it well.....
apply turmeric to it thoroughly n keep in fridge for some time.

take 4 medium sized onions...cut them n then mash them.if u dont have a mixer,then simply cut them in very small small pieces.
take 3 tomatoes.....cut them,n if possible,mash them.
1 tsp ginger paste.
1 tsp garlic paste.
3 medium sized green chillies,cut along the length.
1 small spoon black pepper powder.
1/2 tsp red pepper powder.
is elaichi/laung available at ur place.....if costly,then leave it.
if u ahve,then 2-3 elaichis mashed,u can mash it with belna roti vaala
2-3 laungs.
salt
turmeric

or try to get chicken masala from ur market,the best bet.

take the utensil in which u want to cook it.
avoid using pressure cooker for it.its quick,but to make the tasty one,dont use pressure or steam in this type.
take 4 tsp of oil.
put garlic n ginger pastes.
after that,put ur onions in it.
wait til they become reddish brown.
add green chillies.
put tomatoes...n elaichi n laung.
add haldi again,1 tsp.n wait for 3-4 minutes.

now add salt n red chillies n black pepper.....
if u r able to get chicken masala then add 1 tsp of chicken masala along with salt.no need to add red chillies or black pepper then.

now add chicken......
u can add some water,to make gravvy plus to avoid sticking of contents if using a sticky surface.
anyways,put some water acc. to ur needs.

cover it simply......
wait,
stir after every 5 minutes.
it will b ready within 25-30 minutes.

i hope i ahvent forgotten anything.
i think u two r also trained well now.
dont laugh at me....
i cant write well....regarding recipes etc.

3. u can also have porridge (dalia)from ur market n cook it at ur home with milk n sugar....very very easy,delicious n nutricious.
simply add everything,stir on low heat,n see when its made.first put porridge acc. to ur needs,then add milk,then sugar.
u can eat it with roti sometimes..

4. u have jaggery (gud) )there???
make jaggery rice.
the only difference is that u have to fist put jaggery in water,allow it to melt well.......then add rice n boil. i mean first jaggery n wtaer,then rice n then boil.
how much jaggery to add???
well,i dont know how do u get it there....

but from punjabi andaaza.......

1&1/2 medium sized piece is ok for 2-3 people's rice.....
o/w it gets tooooooooooooooo sweeet
keep checking that it doesnt stick.....
have it as such or with curd.if u want to ahve with curd,then first allow it to cool.
waise thande khaan da mazaa aonda hai.
u can store it in fridge for 1 day.

dont throw away the chaashni.......

u can use it in many ways....
like diluting it ,n putting one spoon in tea etc,
will tell u later

White chane, Hot choclate, Mushroom paneer

2007-09-05T21:50:00.000-07:00

white chane.......tough ones...............but since u asked.

first note the ingredients-
1. one katori white chane.
2.4 katori water......i.e. chane:water =1:4.

3.1/2 tsp meetha soda.......soda bi carbonate???

4.salt
oil
2medium sized onions
1 tsp chana masala or even garam masala or chicken masala will do,whatever u purchase from market.
2 tsp ginger paste
2 tsp garlic paste
2 tomatoes chopped
2 green chillies
haldi

now,
1. wash chane....soak in water n soda bicarb over night.....very very very imp.

2.next day,boil chane,add some more water,1 katori....n boil for 40-45 minutes in an open vessel.keep stirring it to see if they r cooked,plus to see is they stick....add slight water if they stick.I do it in open vessel as find it hard to judge in cooker.

3.now ,make tadka as told to u so many times ,but in a different pan.

4. add tadka to the chane,n cook for another 10 minutes.

thats it.....
eat with onions n rotis.

hot choclate .......

1. take 2 pieces/squares of choclate in a pan.

2. add 2 tsp sugar and 1/4 cup(strictly 1/4 tea cup) water.

3.heat it til choclate melts.

4.keep stirring.

5. add 2 cups of milk now n keep stirring.

6. heat for 5 minutes. keep stirring.

7. now,take it off the stove.

8. beat it well to make it frothy.

have it hot,or have it cold as desired.

one more easy vegetable.........

mushroom paneer.....mashroom cheese....in butter.
no onions,
no tomato.
no haldi.

buy mushrooms,wash them well,n cut them if u want to.
take cheese n cut it into cubes.

1. take a frying pan etc.
2. put 1 tablespoon butter into it.
3.add 1 tablespoon ginger n garlic paste.
4. add 1 green chilly chopped into small pieces.
5..cook for 2 minutes til the paste turns reddish..
6.add washed mushrooms to it,n cook for 8-10 minutes.put 1/4 cup waterif desied to avoid sticking etc.
7. add cheese cubes n cook for 2 minutes.
8. add salt n black pepper if desired,

its ready!!!!!

Chicken tikka, Tandoori fish, Choclate Fudge

2007-09-05T21:44:00.000-07:00

chicken tikka

boneless chicken.......for 2 guys.
juice of half lemon.
curd....about 2&1/2 katoris
2tablespoons ginger paste.
1 tbsp chat masala
1 spoon garam masala.
1/4 spoon chilly powder.
2 tablesppons garlic paste
butter , if not there,then oil.
salt
chilly sauce.

no onions or tomatoes .
no green chillies

1. Cut boneless chicken into small pieces......rectanguilar cubes kinds,n not too thick in thickness.
2. wash the cubes again.
3. apply lemon juice n salt to it n leave for 15 minutes to half hour.

4.now,take curd in a different bowl.n fento it....i mean make a proper mixture of the curd .
5.Add all masalas n pastes into the curd.mix it.
6.put chicken in this bowl,n see that curd is applied to all the sides of every cube.
7. refrigerate it for 4 hrs...very imp.
8.now,u dont have an oven.....so.....
9. take a frying pan,wide n flat kinds......
10. spread butter on it,just enough to cover the pan,not too much.....keep on low heat.
11.keep chicken pieces on it n start cooking.
12. keep repositioning it again n again.
13.apply butter again to all the pieces while cooking n reposition them with the spoon.
14. keep repositioning.
15. apply butter again n reposition n cook.

see the salt etec. when its cooked...if less,sprinkle it now.
u can have it with rotis n onion......lol

it will take 15- 20 minutes.

Tandoori fish....very simple.

1.take half kilo fish ,wash it...dry it...n then give incisions all over.....
2. take a bowl...
add 1 teaspoonful ginger paste
1 tsp garlic paste
1/2 tsp garam masala...or if not available,then black pepper powder n red chilly powder 1/2 tsp.
salt to taste
1 table spoon lemon juice....or juice of one lemon......
keep the fish in this bowl for 1 hour.

now....take a frying pan,flat n wide base kinds......put oil in it...to cover the pan evenly,not too much.put marintaed fish in it n start frying....til golden in colour.
keep hillaaying it.

when will u know ..
that fish is cooked????

when it turns opaque from transparent,or starts to flake.
see by inserting knife or fork in centre of thickest part.

have it with chutney,or salad or sauce ......

Choclate Fudge........sweetdish...made in 5-10 minutes.

1. Buy 4 medium sized sweet choclates from market.
2.break it into pieces.....
3.put choclate pieces and 1/2 cup butter, in a pan n start heating until it starts bubbling.
now,remove this mixture from heat
4. put 2 table spoons of milk in it.
5. if u have vanilla essence...but leave it....keep it simple.
6. stir this hot mixture with milk 2 table spoons.
7. mix 250 grams icing sugar...take it from market.
.

9. take a tray....grease it with butter.
10. spread the mixture...let it cool...cut into squares..allow it to cool more....n eat.

new mnemonics

2007-09-03T20:05:00.001-07:00

courtesy : :::::::::::::;;;

1.AD(i.e. short form of advertisement).....so........"AD on PC relaxes ur mesangial cells n increases ur GFR"......i.e. ANP,Dopamine,PGE2,cAMP.(physilogy).

2.Right now I m stutdying micro-

Bugs causing bloody diarhooea-
"Camp Your Entamoeba In Different Haemorrhagic StateS,but leave Toxin for water".
Bloddy diarhoea is caused by Campylobacter,Yersinia,Entamoeba,Invasive strain E.Coli,C.difficile,H'agic strain E.coli,Shigella,Salmonella....leave toxin for water means E.coli toxin strain causes watery diarrhoea.

Bugs causing watery diarrhoea-

Well.........."Cryptospridium RAN,but Giardia n Perfringens inToxicated it in Vatery cholera......"
Cryptosporidium
Rotavirus
Adenovirus
Norwalk virus
Giardia
C.perfirnges
enterotoxigenic starin E.cloi.
Vibrio cholera

These 3 r exclusively made by me.....hahahaaa....I always make things like this.tell me,do they work for others too?If they,I will send more after sometime.

4.Modified from Kaplans-----

Lactose fermenters-In kaplans,its given CEEK- I modified it as

"CEEK seeks lactose"-------Citrobacter,Entero,E.coli,Klebsiella.
Lactose non-fermenters----In kaplans,its ShYPS-----I learn it as

"There is no lactose in Sh. YPS" (YPS u know na.....maharaja patiala n his school).....so-Shigella,Yersinia,Proteus,Salmonella.
Urs Very Slow is good!

5.I modified ur one too ------

Naughty Lara DATA turns on with Gram positive rods.

PAHUL is a baeutiful plasmid..........
- NCC Follows Principles of keeping Oxygen positive.

6.regarding remembring diseases caused by arboviruses.....

Fly Yellow Dengue to Nile's St. LouiC.

i.e......flavivirus causes yellow fever,dengue,west nile encephalitis,St. Louis encephalitis, n Hep C.

Hanta virus ate Crimean Sandwich n California Bun.
Hantavirus fever,Congo-crimean fever,Sandfly/riftvalley feevr n California enceph is caused by Bunyavirus......kindly correct the names of the diseases if they r wrong...

7.Metastasis to bone in descending order of frequency-

Banwari Lal Theke Te P K bones tudwa betha.....i.e.
Breast,lungs,Thyroid,Testes,Prostate,Kidney......lol

8.Remembring cestodes-

Ten Hymens Bothered China CT.
Taenia,H.Nana,Diphyllobothorium,Echinococcus r Cestodes(Tapeworms).

8.Naked RNA viruses-
Calci Picked Rhea naked......hhmmm...
hor vi ne.....hun yaad nahin aa rahe...

GGGB two(read it as too) underwent hemolysis..."
graves,myastheniagravis, good pastures disease,bullous pemphigoid,two diabetes mellitus.,hemolyitc anemia r type 2 hypersensitivity reactios.....lol....

antibodies of sjogren syndrome.....
now.....sjogren doesnt cry.....(dry eyes).....
scold him in harsh punjabi- A Ro B La.....!!!!!!!!!!
REflexes
one two buckle my shoes....

thats S! for ankle jerk....

then three four hit the door......

Knee jerk L3 L4

then 5,6 pick up sticks...

C5 C6 for biceps...

then 7,8 throw them away....

triceps...

add APC to AC cools....

Ant. hypo controls parasymathetic too...(remember by Apc gene of FAP.

also,add children to ur cholesterol stones.........-multiparity.

also,obesity with cholesterol stone too.....

mnemonics for Step 2 CSA

2007-09-03T20:03:00.000-07:00

Costipation: FOMNM
Functional consti
Obstractive lesions
Metabolic(hypothy. , DM , hypercalcemia)
Neurologic dysfunction(stroke, spina cord trauma, MS, parkinsons, autonomic neuropathy)
Medication induced

Impotence: DAAMATrauma

Diabetic neuropathy
Anxiety
Atherosclerotic VD
Medications ,antihypertensives
chronic Aicoholics
spinal cord Trauma

1yr Od baby : PAMHET BDFR

Elder sibs
Travel

Prenatal visit : MGS(Mens. h/o, Gestat. h/o , Sx. h/o)

Preg.Ros, Birth h/o

PAM HUGS FOSS(Immuni. ,cooperative husband)

1st trim.-SFR(morng Sickness, Fever, Rash)
2nd trim-fetal movements

Bilaterl leg pain-TALK MD
TAO, Athero. VD ,Lumbar spinal stinosis , Radiculopathy , Medication statins ,DVT

Unilaterl leg pain : DOCTOR
DVT , OSTEOMYELITIS , Cellulitis , Trauma , On warfarin , Rupture of bakers cyst

Vomiting of bllod :Ulcer
Varices
mallory Weiss
Xerosis
malignanY
Z-itis

Fatigue : DTC HATe MCD

Dep.
post. Traum. stress dis.
Chronic fatigue syn.

Hiv
Anemia
Thyroid(hypo or hyper)

Malingering
hypoChondriasis
Drugs

Mutiple bruises: ABCD
Accidennt
Bleeding disorder
Collagen VD
Domestic violence

Insomnia : BP(Behaviour, PTSD)
SP(Sleep prob. ,Pain)
D(drugs)

Dizziness : ABCDE GH

Anemia
Brain(intracranial path.)
CAD
Drug induced
Ear prob.
hypoGlycemia
Hypotension

Seizers : HAMSSSS
Hypoglycemia
Aicohol
Migraine
Stroke
Space occupying lesion
Syncope
Seizures(2ndary to head trauma, infections. , drugs, metabolic dis)

Rectal bleeding: MAIID in elderly

Malignancy
Angiodysplacia
Ischemic colitis
IBD
Diverticulitis

Heel/Foot Pain : PCR(2,2,2)

Plantar fascitis
Painful heel pad syndrome
Caicaneal periostitis
Calcaneal spurs
Rheum.arthritis
Reiter"s
Palpitations :
Thyroid ( hyperthy....)
Heart(cardiac arrthmias, valvular HD, HOCM)
Sugar(hypoglycemia)
Panic attack

Recent onset cough :

viral / bacterial / PND / Pneumonia / Bronchitis / Drugs / Asthma

Fatigue &loss of weight: DTC DIM
DM
hypoThyroidism
Deprssion
Infections-TB,HIV
Malabsorption
urinary complains : PUBHH FSSII

Pyuria Frequency
Stream
Urgency Straining
Incontinence
Burning Incomplete emptying
Hesiyancy
Hematuria

Corneal reflaction : PERRLA + EOMI(extra ocular movements)
Pupillary reaction to light
Extra ocular muscle pathology
Reflections

Psychiatric pt. note :ASMADMASI DPT ORARL
Affect
Speech
Mood
Abstraction & judgment
Delutions & hallucinations
Memory
Suicidal intent
Insight

Duration of symptoms
Precipitating factors
Thyroid

Chest pain : DD
GI-GERD
Lungs-pnemonia , PE
Heart - Angina, MI , AS,
Mediastinal - AD(Aortic diss. ), costochondritis
Panic attacks

Kidney dis. : Stone
Cancer
Infection

Depression : DTC
Depression
Hypothyroidism
Occult cancer

USMLE pathology mnemonics

2007-09-03T20:02:00.000-07:00

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ Horner Syndrome

Mnemonic/ Fact

POEM

Ptosis

anhydrOsis

Enopthalmos

Miosis

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/Guillane Barre Syndrome

Fact

Its full name is

Acute(<4>

poly neuro radiculo (sites of involvement) pathy

Reference

Harrison text bbok of medicine edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ kawasaki syndrome

Mnemonic/ Fact

Its full name is

Acute(>5days) mucocutaneus (sites of involvement) lymph node syndrome(>5 features)

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ cellular ischemia

Mnemonic/ Fact

HHH

Hippocampus

Hypoxia

Highest sensitivity

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ Cellular ischemia

Mnemonic/ Fact

Myelin figures

damaged Membrane

Cell blebs

Cytoskeleton

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ Brain tumors/descending order of prevalence in adults

Mnemonic/ Fact

Many Grave Malignancies Arrive in adults

Metastasis

Glioblastoma multiforme

Meningioma

Acoustic neuroma

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ Brain tumors /Glioblastoma multforme

Mnemonic/ Fact

Glioblastoma MultForme

Gravest Multilayered Falsely ( pseudo palisading appearance)

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ / Brain tumors /Medulloblastoma

Mnemonic/ Fact

Meduloblastoma

Metastasis via CSF route

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ Brain tumors /Oligodendroglioma

Mnemonic/ Fact

Oligodendroglioma

O shaped histology

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ Ovarian tumors

Mnemonic/ Fact

SSS

Serous cystadenoma

Small sized

Single cavity

MMM

Mega sized

Multiple caitied

Mucinous cystadenoama

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ conjunctivitis associations

Mnemonic/ Fact

Nile river

Nagleria is ass. with river water

Acanthamoeba

AIDS

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ cholesterol stones

Mnemonic/ Fact

FFFF Given ion first aid

CCCCCC

Crohn disease

Clofibrate

Cystic fibrosis

Contraception(estrogen)

Common descent(native Americans)

Contraction(weight loss)

Reference

Kaplan Q bank pathology expalanations

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ interleukin functions

Mnemonic/ Fact

Fun To Brain Early Always IN Night

Interleukin 1 Fever

Interleukin 2 T helper cells

Interleukin 3 Bone marrow

Interleukin 4Ig E

Interleukin 5 Ig A

Interleukin 6INflamation

Interleukin 7INflamation

Interleukin 8 Neutrophil chemoattractant

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/Placenta/umbilical artery

Mnemonic/ Fact

AAA

Artery

Anamolaus

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ apoptosis

Mnemonic/ Fact

Bax is Bad

(promotes apoptosis)

Compare from bcl 2 which inhibits apoptosis

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ Tuberous sclerosis

Mnemonic/ Fact

EPILOHAR

EPIlepsy

Low I Q

Hamartomas

Adenoma sebaceum

Rhabdomyoma

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ MEN 3

Mnemonic/ Fact

MMMM

Mucutaneus neuromas

Medullary carcinoma of thyroid

Medulla (pheochromocytoma)

Marfonoid features

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ hypocortisolism

Mnemonic/ Fact

ABCD

Autoimmunity (commonest cause)

Bilateral involvement of adrenals is most common

Chronic diseases e.g. tuberculosis

Drugs e.g. steroids

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Subject/ Topic

Pathology/ Renal tubule/ Site of Reabsorption

Mnemonic/ Fact

Phosphorous P C T

Calcium DCT

Reference

Board Review Series Pathology edition page

Biochem Mnemonics

2007-09-03T19:57:00.001-07:00

Subject/ Topic	Biochemistry/ Patau Syndrome
Mnemonic/ Fact	PPPPP Patau Syndrome cleft Palate Polydactyly holoProsencephaly Puberty age (chromosome 13)
Reference	Kaplan medical notes 2000 edition page

Subject/ Topic

Biochemistry/ Maple syruyp disease

Mnemonic/ Fact

Martyrs LIVe Beyond DEath

MAple syruyp disease

Leucine

Isoleucine

Valine

Branched chain amino acids

DEcarboxylase enzyme

Reference

Kaplan medical notes 2000 edition page

microbiology mnemonics for USMLE

2007-09-03T19:56:00.001-07:00

Subject/ Topic

Microbiology/ Bacteria/ Spores

Mnemonic/ Fact

BCDE

Bacillus

Clostridia

Diplocollinic acid

Extra resistance to heat

reference

Zawetz 5^th edition page 12

Subject/ Topic

Microbiology/ Microbiology/programmed rearrangement spores/bacterial

Mnemonic/ Fact

NBT i.e. Nitroblue tetrazolium

Neisseria gonorheae

Borelia recurentis

Trypanosomes

reference

Zawetz 5^th edition page 16

Subject/ Topic

Microbiology/lysogenic conversion

Mnemonic/ Fact

BCDE

Clostridium Botulinum

Vibrio Cholerae

Streptococcus Diptherae

Erythrogenic toxin

reference

Zawetz 5^th edition page 18

Subject/ Topic	Microbiology/Sper antigens
Mnemonic/ Fact	STEENCEERT STaphylococcal Enterotoxin ENterotoxin of Clostridia perfringens Exfoliatin (SSSS toxin) ERythrogenic toxin of streptococcus pyogenes TSST


reference	Zawetz 5^th edition page 34

Subject/ Topic

Microbiology/Penicillince resistance

Mnemonic/ Fact

CDMNO

Cloxacin

Dicloxacin

Methicilin

Nafcilin

Oxacilin

reference

Zawetz 5^th edition page 51

Subject/ Topic	Microbiology/polymixin
Mnemonic/ Fact	PPP Polymixin Polypeptie Pseudomonas aeruginosa
reference	Zawetz 5^th edition page 58

Subject/ Topic

Microbiology/bacterial resistance to antibiotic

Mnemonic/ Fact

PACETS

Penicillin & cephalosphorin

Aminoglycosides*

Chloramphenicol

Erythromycin

Tetracycline

Sulphonasmides*

*Chromosomal mutation also

reference

Zawetz 5^th edition page 62-69

Subject/ Topic	Microbiology/ bacterial resistance to antibiotic
Fact	Luckily mycobacterium tuberculosis acquires resistance only by chromosomal mutation ! suppose had it done via plasmids it would have spread like fire!
reference	Zawetz 5^th edition page 62-69

Subject/ Topic

Microbiology/gram positive rods

Mnemonic/ Fact

Naughty Lara DATA

Nocardia

Listeria

Diphtheria

Actinomycete

Tetanus

Anthrax

reference

Zawetz 5^th edition page 76

Subject/ Topic

Microbiology/ Enterobacteriaceae /Motile organisms

Mnemonic/ Fact

SEEP

Salmonella

E coli

Enterobacter

Proteus

reference

Zawetz 5^th edition page101

Subject/ Topic

Microbiology/Enterobacteriaceae/Lactose fermenting organism

Mnemonic/ Fact

Fast fermenters -KEE-given in first aid

Slow fermenters -Very Slow

Vibrio

Serratia

Non fermenters-PPSS

Proteus

Pseudomonas

Salmonella

Shigella

reference

Zawetz 5^th edition page 101

Subject/ Topic

Microbiology/oxidase positive organisms

Mnemonic/ Fact

NCC Follow Principles

Neisseria

C. jejuni

vibrio Cholerae

Francicella

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

reference

Zawetz 5^th edition page

Subject/ Topic

Microbiology/Plasmid functions

Mnemonic/ Fact

PAHUL

Pili/flagella gene

Antibiotic resistance gene

H m resistance gene

U V Light resistance gene

reference

Zawetz 5^th edition page 10

Subject/ Topic

Microbiology/viruses with proteases

Mnemonic/ Fact

Father s Right Principle

Flaviviorus

Retrovirus

Picorna virus

reference

Zawetz 5^th edition

Subject/ Topic

Microbiology/viruses with minimal/no cytopahological effects

Mnemonic/ Fact

Heavy Routine Results Malaise

Hepatits A, B, C

Rotavirus

Rubella

Measles

reference

Zawetz 5^th edition

Subject/ Topic

Microbiologyureasde positive organismasms

Mnemonic/ Fact

My Hi to Kool & Pretty girls

Mycoplasma

H pylori

K pneumoniae

Proteus

reference

Zawetz 5^th edition

Subject/ Topic

Microbiology/ inclusion bodies

Mnemonic/ Fact

Cytoplasmic inclusion bodies

Right in Plasma

Rabies

Pox virus

Nuclear type A inclusion bodies

HAY

Herpes

Cowdry typeA

Yellow fever

Nuclear type B inclusion bodies

BPA

Cowdry type B

Polio virus

Adenovirus

Cytoplasmic &nuclear inclusion bodies

Maximum area covered

Measles

Mega sized inclusion bodies

Molluscum contagiosum

Very small multiple Guarnieri inclusion bodies

Vaccinia

reference

Zawetz 5^th edition page 172

neuroanatomy mnemonics for USMLE

2007-09-03T19:54:00.000-07:00

Subject/ Topic	Neuroanatomy/shy dragger syndrome
Mnemonic/ Fact	Shy dragerr syndrome/ Sympathetic nervous system involment
Reference	High yield Neuroanatomy 2nd edition page 102

Subject/ Topic

Neuroanatomy/hypothalamic nuclei functions /Lateral nuclei

Mnemonic/ Fact

Lateral loves food…. function feeding center

Reference

High yield Neuroanatomy 2nd edition page 103

Subject/ Topic

Neuroanatomy/ hypothalamic nuclei functions / anterior hypothalamic nuclei

Mnemonic/ Fact

A/C Cools when hot

anterior hypothalamic nuclei works in hot conditions

Reference

High yield Neuroanatomy 2nd edition page 103

Subject/ Topic

Neuroanatomy/drugs cusing SIADH (syndrome of inappropriate ADH)

Mnemonic/ Fact

CCC

Clofibrate

Carbamazepine

Chlorpropamide

Reference

High yield Neuroanatomy 2nd edition page 106

Subject/ Topic

Neuroanatomy/papez circuit arrangement

Mnemonic/ Fact

MACEH

Mamillary body…> Anterior thalamus..>Cingulated gyrus> Entorhinal cortex…> Hipppocampus

Reference

High yield Neuroanatomy 2nd edition page 108

Subject/ Topic

Neuroanatomy/Strachan s syndrome

Mnemonic/ Fact

SPADE

SPinal ataxia

optic Atrophy

nerve Deafness

Reference

High yield Neuroanatomy 2nd edition page 110

Subject/ Topic

Neuroanatomy/ Wernicke syndrome

Mnemonic/ Fact

WELCOME TO GOA

WErnicke syndrome is

Triad of

Global confusion

Opthalmoplegia

Ataxia

Reference

High yield Neuroanatomy 2nd edition page 110

Subject/ Topic	Neuroanatomy/Wilson disease/ organs involved
Mnemonic/ Fact	Bill Clinton Kissed Lewinsky Brain Cornea Kidney liver
Reference	High yield Neuroanatomy 2nd edition page 114
Subject/ Topic
Mnemonic/ Fact
Reference

Subject/ Topic

Neuroanatomy/Gerstmann s syndrome

Mnemonic/ Fact

Very DAFR

Visual pathway involvement ( lower quadrantopia )

Dysphagia& dyslexia

Acalculia

Finger agnosia

Right &left confusion

Reference

High yield Neuroanatomy 2nd edition page 123

Subject/ Topic

Neuroanatomy / normal pressure hydrocephalus

Mnemonic/ Fact

IDeA

Incontinence

DEmentia

Ataxia

Reference

High yield Neuroanatomy 2nd edition page 110

Subject/ Topic

Neuroanatomy/ facial nerve lesion

Mnemonic/ Fact

SSSS

Supranuclear lesion

Superior quadrant of contralateral Side Spared

Reference

High yield Neuroanatomy 2nd edition page 70

Subject/ Topic

Neuroanatomy / Cutaneus Receptors / Functions

Mnemonic/ Fact

Meissner s corpuscle….. Mild touch

Pacini corpuscle ….. Pressuure

Reference

High yield Neuroanatomy 2nd edition page 33

Subject/ Topic

Neuroanatomy/arnold chiari malformation &dandy walker syndrome

Mnemonic/ Fact

A2CD

Arnold chiari malformation is of 2 types

& posterior fossa Cysts in Dandy Walker Syndrome

Reference

High yield Neuroanatomy 2nd edition page 1

Subject/ Topic

Neuroanatomy/cauda equina Syndrome/ Conus medullary Syndrome

Mnemonic/ Fact

GURASSN

Gradual involvement

Unilateral Radicular pain, unilateral muscle Atrophy & Unilateral Saddle areaof Sensory involvement

No incontinence

Compare from Conus medullary Syndrome

SONBBI

Sudden Onset

No radicular pain

No muscle atrophy

Bilateral saddle area

Incontinence present

Reference

High yield Neuroanatomy 2nd edition page 1

langar waali daal

2007-09-03T19:38:00.000-07:00

langar waali daal.......dale chholle..lol

i hope u dont have to clean it,as u might b getting clean daal in US.

so,take 1 katori daal ......n place it in a bowl,add 375-400 ml of water(u know one indian steel glass measures 250 ml....u have ur own andaaza)...n keep it like this for 5-6 hrs,so that later it cooks well n easily.

take a pressure cooker...put all this in it....add some water,some 1 katori
n cover the pressure cooker.......add 1 tsp haldi n salt to taste.cover the cooker n wait for 7-8 whistels while keeping it on low heat.Always ,when u put the gas off,dont immediately open the cooker.Allow the stem to settle down first - to avoid accidents n also,to make full use of the steam,it will penetrate into the daal/or whatever material u have, n give it better consistency.

if u dont have cooker,then place it in the utensil whatever u ahve,n place the daal,1 tsp of haldi n salt n cover it n allow it to b made for some 30-40 minutes.Its actually the better method for this daal.....remember,keep on low heat for better results.Do stir it after 5-10 minutes.

see if its well made by checking,eat few daane n see....if its still not done,cook for some more time.

now,do the tadka as told with onions,tomato,green chilly....etc. Remeber,in daals,put salt either in daal while boiling it(its better as it helps to cook it soon),or in tadka,but never in both.

mix tadka with daal n n thats it.
Dont try to b shaktimaan by adding everything or first making tadka n then adding kachi daal to it in cooker.U will ruin everything.
Boil daal on low heat separately.

Same goees for white chane,just that the time needed to place it mixed with water in a bowl before boiling is longer than daal.Keep them mixed with water for some 6-7 hrs,so that later they get cooked easily.
Its advisable to get onions n tomatoes crushed n made in a paste for white chane,also take two onions n two tomatoes n make a paste...etc....to have better taste.Adding red chillies is also advisable,only 1/2 tsp of it.
Baaki,its a tough job for u......Everything depends on tadka.

Also,in fish recipe......apply haldi thoroughly to both sides n keep it like this for 3-4 hrs( not 1 hr).....also,make it on low heat.

The key to tastier foods in 80% cases is low heat.

Raita, Chapattis

2007-09-03T19:36:00.000-07:00

i hope curd n milk is cheaper at ur place.......u dont have to buy it again n again from amrket.just buy it once,n from next time,prepare it at home with milk....make raitaas etc.

learn to prepare curd n raita.
when u take curd from market(just once),take two tsp out of it n preserve before eating it to make curd at home later....lol.

curd for 2 people everyday(done make it once for urself in bhandaar o/w it will turn sour n bad quality as the days progress)- take 500 ml of pasteurised milk,n heat it til it gets warm.Dont boil it,dont make to even hot,but dont leave it cold even.See that it just becomes warm.If its winter at ur place,then make it slighly more warmer. add 2 tsp of curd purchased from market n mix it well with the milk in a bowl. Cover it n leave it for overnight(stove te naa rakh deo,simply on the slab).If its too cold,adjust the temp. of ur kitchen to keep it warm....Ur curd will be ready after 10-12 hrs.

Now,take it in a bowl.Add some warm milk,only 1/2 katori to it(not hot,just warm milk)....n shake well with a serving spoon(not on stove,simply anywhere in ur house...lol).....til it becomes very soft n smooth in consistency.

Raita number 1. - cut 1 n 1/2 onions in very very small pieces.Cut 1 firm consistency tomato in very small pieces.cut one green chilly in very small pieces.mix it with the curd...sprinkle salt,masaala,black pepper powder to ur taste n mix it n have it with pranthaas.

Raita number 2.- Take 1 kaddoo,medium sized. kaddoookas karo...but u must b short of utensils....leave it.
...........leave everything else.
only this raita is ok for u two.

for all the bachelor cooks,easy way to make chapatis.

u need some well done dough,firm n smooth in consistency.
some dry dough in a dry utensil.
clean surface.
a flat and wide base smooth bowl... read carefully,wide base.....the undersurface.

make a medium sized peda.
place it on the dry surface after applying dry dough on both sides of it.
place the wide based bowl,the undersurface of it firmly over it.

change the direction of ur roti...place the base again over it.....
keep doing this til all sides become smooth n uniform in thickness.
apply dry dough if it starts sticking.

now,when a big sized chapati is made,use the hollow surface of the same bowl or some smaller bowl,n cut the ill-made chapati with its hollow surface,it will turn out to b a round one.just make it sure that all sides r uniform in thickness.

now take a tawa n cook it.keep changing sides.
to make a prnatha,just make a bigger peda n apply oil while its half baked on stove.

making a prantha is very very easy for u both.
knead ur dough til its firm n smooth in consistency........do a medium sized peda.......then take the surface where u want to roll it.just roll it to give it a square shape...(i cant teach u the proper way)...just give it a square shape n roll so that all sides r smooth in thickness.
dont make it tooo thin.

take a tawa.......put this onto it.........start baking on low heat (u two to b on safer side). keep low heat......keep on chnaging the sides very 1 minute.when u notice that it has started getting light brown with tiny black spots,apply one tsp(not full,just the amount to apply well on a side).....apply one tsp of oil on one side thoroughly,start from corners n proceed to centre ....change the side,apply one tsp of oil on the another side. cook on low heat by chnaging sides.......take it off the tawa before it burns.

initially,u need two people to make pranthaas...one to roll with belna...n one to cook it on tawa. as u get experienced....only 1 can do the job.

Fried Fish

2007-09-03T19:33:00.000-07:00

ok..as bhindis r costly etc.

try cheaper things.......

make fish.....

get fish from the market...........
wash it....see if u want to have it in small pieces or two big ones.smaller r easy to cook at home.

apply haldi on it thoorughly......n keep it like this for half to 1 hr...thaw it a little bit...thaw means do some holes (not too many) or some lines with a knife.

then put oil in a flat based frying pan.......just to cover the surface of the pan.....

fry fish in it....keep frying til it truns brown both sides....the pakora type colour..not too brown....u will see for urself,how can i teach u this now???

take it out...apply salt etc. n have it with sauce.

Rajma/Chane

2007-09-02T11:55:00.001-07:00

bachelor cooks.....!!!!!!!

rajmah/black chane...both r cooked in same style.

1. take 1 katori/kauli of rajmah/chane,whatever u want to prepare.
2. put it in a wide mouthed bowl.
3. put 375 -400 ml water in it.
4. cover it n leave it for over night or over day..(no,not on gas,but simply keep it like this on kitchen slab.)..atleast 8-10 hrs.after this,put it in a pressure cooker,add some more water ,n wait for 5-6 whistles.if no pressure cooker,cook it on slow heat for 30 minutes atleast.

5. take 2 onions,1 tomato,1- 2 green chillies,ginger paste,garlic paste,.

6.if u have a mixer,cut onions n tomato n make a paste of them individually.
7. if u dont have a mixer,cut both onions n tomatoes in small pieces.very small pieces.
8.take a different frying pan.
8.put 3 teaspoons of oil in it.
9.put onions,ginger n garlic n green chillies n stir til onions turn reddish brown.
10.put tomatoes ,1 teaspoon of haldi n cook.
11. when haldi is cooked,(notice a beautiful aroma),put salt to taste.
12. put some water,around half glass n cook.
13. put this mixture into rajmah/chane n cook for 5-10 minutes.

thats all.

Bhindi, the easiest vegetable to prepare..

2007-09-02T11:51:00.000-07:00

For all ya bachelors out there, here's one gem of a vegetable dish for ya! And easy to prepare too,, this comes as a courtesy of a great chef from US..

Bhindi Masala..

1. Take ladyfingers...thats bhindi as per ur needs.

2. Wash it well....and dry it well before cutting. either pat dry or leave it for drying for 15-20 minutes.

3. Cut it into small small pieces.....may b lacy etc.,keep a dry towel besides u to clean the knife n ur fingers n vegetable as needed.

cut 1 onion length wise.
cut 1 green chilly.
take 1/2 tsp of ginger n garlic paste.

no tomato in this one.
put 3 tsp of oil in the cooking pan.
add dry vegetable,onion,chilly,pastes ,1 tsp haldi n salt to taste togethr n cook on low heat.
dont add water into it.

keep stirring after every 5 minutes.

it will be ready in 25-30 minutes.

Chilly Cheese

2007-09-01T15:18:00.000-07:00

Today's recipe -

kum chalaaoo chilly cheese for bachelor cooks -

servings - 2 persons
take cheese as per ur demand.cut it into rectangular medium thickness pieces.
take 1 onion,cut it into lamba rukh..thin long pieces.
take 1 tomato...cut it into small pieces
1 green chilly
zeera(if available)
2-3 small capsicums..shimla mirch..but best if left this to more experienced hands.If u want to put this one,cook this before cheese.
salt
haldi , garlic paste , ginger paste(its available at ur place)

1. Put 2 teaspoons of oil in a pan.Keep on slow heat.
2. put onions,garlic n ginger paste n zeera in it.
3. cook till onions turn brownish red.
4. put green chilly after cutting in two pieces length wise.
5.cook for 30 seconds.
6. put tomatoes.
7. put 1 teaspoon of haldi into it.
8. cook for 2 minutes,but keep stirring.....see when haldi starts exuding oil.look for very tiny droplets.
9. if u plan to introduce vegetables,introduce at this place n cook for 10 minutes.U can add some water if it starts sticking.
10. if u have only cheese,u can put cheese into the tadka there n then.
11. put salt to taste.
12. put 3-4 spoons of tomato chilly sauce n stir.
13. put 2-3 spoons of milk cream (malai)also n stir.

serve with chapatis...or even rice.
u can add some water n amke it a gravy vaala to serve with rice.cook water well for 5-10 minutes on slow heat.

or u can turn this into pulao,but then add rice ,vegetables together n boil til rice r made.add cheese pieces later on n cook for 5 minutes.

i hope the chef. ahvent forgotten anything.

CHINESE success secrets

2007-06-05T12:46:00.000-07:00

ONE.
Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

TWO.
Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their
conversational skills will be as important as any other.

THREE.
Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

FOUR.
When you say, "I love you", mean it.

FIVE.
When you say, "I'm sorry", look the person in the eye.

SIX.
Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

SEVEN.
Believe in love at first sight.

EIGHT.
Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who
don't have dreams don't have much.

NINE.
Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt
but it's the only way to live life completely.

TEN.
In disagreements, fight fairly. Please No name calling.

ELEVEN.
Don't judge people by their relatives.

TWELVE.
Talk slowly but think quickly.

THIRTEEN.
When someone asks you a question you don't want
to answer, smile and ask, "Why do you want to know?"

FOURTEEN.
Remember that great love and great
achievements involve great risk.

FIFTEEN.
Say "bless you" when you hear someone sneeze.

SIXTEEN.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

SEVENTEEN.
Remember the three R's:
Respect for self;
Respect for others;
Responsibility for all your actions.

EIGHTEEN.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

NINETEEN.
When you realize you've made a mistake,
take immediate steps to correct it.

TWENTY.
Smile when picking up the phone.
The caller will hear it in your voice.

TWENTY ONE.
Spend some time alone.

Inside Rajpura

2007-05-30T08:53:00.000-07:00

On way from
chd to patiala a passenger jumpd from the bus.. NOt Suicide .. but just in haste..
THis guy was B/L BLind.......
Unfortunately he got his right foot below the rear tyres.. fortunately he was okay otherwise..
BUs was stopped by shouting from girls in the bus..
Driver ..Frightened..!!! says..Get him water......Sawaris shouted arrange a tempo for him to near bye hospital...!!!!!!!!!! But no one said lets take him to hospital or chalo lets leave him at hospital ..and then we can go...!!!!!!!!!!! we are sooooooooooooo selfish...

Fortunately today was a rest for me and boxer .. so i took stand and said to driver we will not go further till u leave this guy at hospital..Boxer knew the way to Govt. hospital... and meanwhile we called his home..

As soon we reached hospital... his dad arrived...
We left his kid with him and moved further..

I sincerely feel this delay of 45 minutes was worth it!!!

Legalities...
1. Supreme court has ordered that no one will be questioned in case he brings an accident case to hospital...
2. in any case u hit and run any person while driving it is culpable homicide 304-A...
Ruldu ram, the driver must be a happy man this evening...

Punjabi bayeya!!

2007-05-20T04:11:00.001-07:00

It had been long i need to write this post..

He was one of the first persons I met in the states... He had been very...good to me.. I just cant forget his love and care... But the tragedy in his life .. he enterid in Usa bina papers..

He was not thier in states for fun or career but just to get some good money to get his two daughters married after seeing the trend of heaving spendings here ...

A bit about his lifestlye: 365 days of on stop... 12 hrs work since 5 years.... with a extended 2 hour of work on all weekends and holidays... cant sit on chair for even a second in job time.... doesnt matter if he is ill or tired....then cooked his own food...

Surprisingly, he was still living with a highest level of commitment to his family.

.. he tried to sleep everynight by trying to forget the past years and expecting just one good thing to happen.. when will he get a sarkari status...

Before sleeping everynight... he used to tell me one thing whichhe wouldhave every person he met here if he is back home in india... Dr. Ethe assen Byeyae haan ... Yaar punjaabi bayeyae.. te Saada sab to jyad a khoon saade punjabi veer he choosde han... Phir we uhnaa de khoon da rang chitta hee hai.. eh laali gua chukaa hai...gorian meman naal reh kee...

P. S : This doesn mean all Indians in US are bad.. I know 100s of good people there along with thousands of bad ones too....

Nostradamus

2007-02-14T16:48:00.000-08:00

Just Came to know.....Saddam Hussain hanged!!!!

Many must b very happy today.....

Others suspect......hanging Saddam on end- day is a bigger plan by America.....to provoke more retaliation by Islamic millitants.......may b they will use the radioactive materials now n it will give US an excuse to use nuclear material against them n destroy them for ever......GOD knows truth!!

Did U read Nostradamus !! ........Well..He indeed was a genius...HE very clearly wrote in his lines regarding"the sky will burn at 45 degrees,a ball of fire will approach the new city......the two come crumbling down"......nobody cud make out what he meant til the WTC tragedy occured!!

Now,these r his words again...something like....middle east will b vanished n the new world will become mightier than ever......by new world,he meant america.........he told that a man from greater arabia will plunge the world into third world war.......So it can b Osama...........n one can see that happening now.

U have to read it fully n analyse it retrospectivally.....He indeed made great predictions.

My friends who have read him are his ardent supporters......they say waht he said is happening now.

And Osama is the third n last anti-christ now.

May b world will become a better place after all this tagic times end.

Good luck!!

Courtesy: A NRI

Never Give up...

2007-02-01T13:20:00.000-08:00

http://www.pennyparker2.com/abend.html

VISA ORPHANs

2007-01-25T08:54:00.000-08:00

Though I have been resisting not writing my blog since few days but I cud not resist writing for the plight of this one clique of kids. The VISA greed made orphans.
With more than half of the Punjab already in foreign lands and no litmus test to separate good and bad and also social acceptance of greed while organizing marriage this was bound to happen.

These kids are further of two types: one who lives in India and second who live in foreign lands. Former are a product of foreign guys using Indian girls as holiday Indian brides and latter are of Indian Guys ditching NRI girls after Visa Approval or NRI girls using successful or hardworking Indian guys without being the Wife types.

Well stats suggest that good NRI girls get good NRI matches here too so I must advice Indian guys too resist the temptation of marrying them for Visa greed hoping her to be the dream girland leaving aevery thing on god. Try to settle with less money..lol.. in the beginning and I am sure that as you grow up in life you will get more satisfactory life. if any one of You is ready to accept any girls as wifes then pl go further and say yes to marig but plz be sure tht the chance of finding a good bride from here is very very less............... as there is already a line of NRI guys behind every good girl . One exception is when very honest vicholas intervene to make matches...

this is furhter explanation about nri girls.........

did u ever read about a that poem af putting dead albatross around other persons neck

this is what their parents think of them........... marry off as soon as they reach 20.. put ur albatroos around other guys neck.. beleive me i m not wrong .. if ur find someone sincere then she represent the rarest of ABCD girls.. .. its vicch paarents dee vee galti nahi hai.. i think our nri s must accept reality and let their kids live what they learnt than asking to pretend as satisavitris now..

Also for good NRI good girls pl do confirm twenty thousand times the guys u are picking from a India as a chance of getting yes from perfect groom there is below zero. NAd if u still get smart Indian who will fools u in the end pl dun blame that Punjab has changed........ it was ur greed that made u to go a Indian doctor or engineer.. Whatever..

With more kalyugisation of our marraiges I dun expect that the no of VISA orphans are goin to decrease .SO I can pray only to god to intervene and make Right combinations.

Love Is Never Silent

2007-01-06T08:47:00.000-08:00

A loving heart, a gentle smile,
a warm and tender touch,
We give so many things in life
but nothing means as much.

A little inspiration
when someone loses hope,
A kind word of encouragement
when they no longer seem to cope.

A simple phrase, "I love you"
when no one else is there,
Taking hold onto a hand
in a little heartfelt prayer.

Love is never silent,
it has so much to say,
And it is our greatest blessing
when we give it all away.

Courtesy: Anonymous Post

Love Neurosis

2006-12-02T14:58:00.001-08:00

"ki rakhya madiran girjaan ch
jad pyar hee duniya vasave
ki labda guruaan piran ch
yaar pyar rab ban jave"

Rahul started it for dream but never knew that one day he will be declared my first case of love induced neurosis.

Once a while, when he was passing through the lawn in his school-days girl Rika just passed beside him. She was approximately of his age and a classmate too; she was pretty and cute.

Coincidently after it he went to class to attend the lecture of Hindi where the topic was Meerabai and her Krishna, where he learnt that love means to wait for someone selflessly till you get it.

That’s it...May be he was too young, just in his second grade...But he decided that Rika is his Krishna and he her Meerabai. Not fun……...I really saw one such patient so I m writing it as a sincere warning for those who kindle the desires tiny tots just for fun

It proved to be the toughest decision of his life. Yaar he was a kid then. He had no ability to differentiate between realty and nonsense, all he knew was that what ever he had thought is going to be his final decision.

At his home too every one teased him that they ere meant for each other esp. his cousin bro. That idiot made his decision rock solid everyday. Then were his parents who talked about her in everything he was supposed to do. The incident he remembered exactly is one day when while doing shopping and his dad made him buy a shirt saying that color was worn by Rica.

Then one day he had to change his school as he father got transferred. But she was there in everything he did, so much so that he always longed to meet her…. but may be his style or innocence that he never tried to meet her.

He always talked to his friends about her but one day he came to know that she is having an affair at his home city with some guy. So what? Krishna was married to his wives also, but Meerabai never thought about someone else. So won’t he. He carried on.

As he grew up and was sent by his parents to college he got another chance to meet her, which was a chance he always looked for. He tried to talk to her but could never do it for more than a few seconds. He was becoming envious of every one who talked to her.

Here he came to know that she is a modern damsel with big wings, and he an introvert chap from a poor family. What exactly kept him away from her was that she used to have company and he was alone there.

She used to be a darling of all the rich boys in the place and he was the last person she could have ever think of. Thou he was poor, so he tried to become rich by working hard.

Time passed and then came the exams they were preparing for. Rahul was selected, but Rica couldn’t make it. Then he went back home and the same topic came into talk again i.e. rahul and Rica but ironically theme was different now we were said to be like brother and sister to each other. He was shocked, but as he was a kid, his decision again meant nothing.

Unhappily he settled with his parents thinking one day they will meet each other….. He came for the masters where again he talked to everyone about her but of no use. He had to study to pass, so he could not waste his time thinking about her.

His friends said he was having an infatuation and should forget her as they were not of similar nature. Some even said he should make a girlfriend to forget her. But once again he kept living alone.

One day he got news that she had married a American and went away. Not able to bear this news and broke down till I finally met him and acquainted him the hard reality which is called life.

In retrospect today, I feel that he would have been told by his parents that what is the meaning of these feelings and what he should really think at his age where ever he was and they should have not just related him to a girl just to make things easier for them, while at the same time, sending him into deep into a ocean of self made nonsense and environmental induced shit.

My longest journey

2006-12-02T10:57:00.001-08:00

While leaving India at the Delhi airport what I was pondering is where I am going; how will I feel there; what type of people will I find there etc. and so many unasked queries. Undoubtedly my journey to States was the not just important but it also turned out to be the longest day in my life, all thanks to the earth’s rotation on its axis.

The moment I landed in the states, for the first time I saw government officials on their toes. The tiring journey in my father’s court case had eroded my trust in the fact that any govt. official can work for the people.

The officer at the airport asked the foreigners to separate from the US residents. Here I saw the nation giving due respect to its citizens by keeping the entry process easier for its citizens but I was taken aback by the word alien which was being repeatedly use for me like aliens by an officer, however in the long run I realized that I was wrong as the people there were very warm to everyone, so I should not generalize the behavior of one person to be that of a nation.

I waited for a never before seen friend to pick me up. As we started we went to a store run by Patel brothers who made riches in America by selling Indian goods in states at competitive prizes. Fortunately even then they made enough profit to run a chain of stores, the average prize was at least three times of Indian prize but the quality was extremely good.

As we drove ahead, I was surprised to see the status of roads and traffic. In the next 120 miles I saw only cars and long trucks, there was no bus, no bulging trucks, no red stop signs, not even a single stop, no cows, no dogs, no accident but most surprisingly not even a single bus . The bigger highways are called speedways there as you can watch only speed on the roads and there is not even a single red stop sign on thousands of miles of course and you can not find even a single vehicle stopping on the side of the road.

Paaji told me that these people drive safe and it’s not like Indian roads where roadways are driven like racing cars. Trucks can not run with open sides and in case some accident happens due to any stray animal it would lead to a legal suit amounting to millions of dollars against the govt. In case there is some accident the ambulance arrives before 150 seconds and if they suspect a delay they will send air ambulance as helicopter which are things I suspect will take tens of years to be there for the Indian citizens.

Everyone uses seatbelt to avoid a ticket .Ticket is what Americans get for every offense they commit .It is a fine in terms of thousands of Indian rupees per offense and paaji says one should never try to bribe a police officer in the states as these guys are not on sale like the prestigious Punjab police, an institution whose officer sold himself in a case where my father was openly thrown to prongs of death by a rash driver on the roads of Mera Bharat Mahan.

Almost every one owns a car so the state transports is almost not used by common man. He told that during his stay of ten years in the states he has never boarded a bus .This was first thing when I found Indians ahead of the states as I believe the having a penchant to use buses and trains in India is keeping the poor people live with lesser money and lesser fuel wastage.

Soon i reached my destination....

Childhood decides

2006-12-02T10:53:00.001-08:00

This is one story Rachel can not forget not only because made my life but also because it taught him how mush mush childhood memories can design the personality of people, whether for good or bad.

He used to be average kid in studies. In his second grade, he failed badly in one exam- he got zero on one dictation test. Even today, at the age of 40, he remembers the name of his teacher, she was Katrina. Then she announced that she will give biscuits to the best scorer in her next test, Rachel decided to get not just to win but to erase the shameful defeat of his record and convert it into a proud win.

Rachel went back home he worked hard and leant every word by heart. Next day in the test he scored full marks. His teacher not only hugged him but also gave him a pack off biscuits. When the class was over friends those from his street flocked him and appreciated him however, one guy namely x said that these type of biscuits are not even served to dogs in their home. ……………Rachel kept quiet!!

Time passed and he grew up. Rachel and the same guy x came to NYC to prepare for premeds. He had tests of biology at Kaplan. As Rachel scored the maximum marks in the tests regularly there so one day their teacher decided to give him a chocolate.

After some time when he was going back to his hostel where Rachel and x ere living in the same apartment he heard a burst of laughter. X had just repeated the same dialogue he used twenty years back…..

Oh my god! Everything went like a flashback in his mind…. those days of childhood and his heart stared pounding……… It took him not more than a few seconds to distance from x.

….. Childhood makes a man……. It made a jealous creature in subconscious of x and a quiet fighter in Rachel.

Expectations!!

2006-12-02T00:23:00.000-08:00

They loved each other. Gray and Rea were no more.. Two different names …. Every one thought they are heavenly soul mates. They say it takes a few days to understand each other but they took years. They were very near to me n good friends so I always knew them both.

Gray was the most rich but not so sober guy in the place and Rea most not so simple but a studious girl ..of lower class family……. but he would do the worst sht she liked and she would have no demands at all…….. Terribly simple with him.. satisawitri type.. He spent every single second for her and she pretended as if there is no other person beyond him …

Finally they married after many years of courtship and ……… what happened??

Divorce filed in 3 months…!!. He did not like to see her face again and she don’t even like to talk about him.

A good friend say it was some heavenly disaster … she was a Manglik stuff and would never settle with any guy for next 4 years … others say Gray started a extra marital affair etc. etc.. But what is reality?

It the social schizophrenia they demonstrated to behave with each other which led to the point… Gray was never a sober guy with any one else except Rea.. A guy who cud never behave politely with the poor beggars on road showed heights of courtesy in dealing with the lady…Rea too was not at all serene but she pretended to be the type just not to let the smart boy near him slip beyond her to the more luring options.

Now u think why they cud n carry the Tamasha further which they organized for years. Well this the trick .. Which many employ now days... Behave as sober as possible till the wedding night after which where the other person will go??... The legal stamp which ruins many sane souls….

Rea thought I will start using his money only after marig ..Where he has to give up and succumb to the demands or… I will frustrate him ..398 etc etc ..also he cannot go ny where.. so he setle to my terms n demands.. ….gray thought once she is stamped to be married I will refuse every single shit I carried for her .. No more bahadur n I will be the king at home .. and she will be a dasi forever..

Well it was the girl who showed her colors first ..as she cud nt resist her temptations of more money... when she started making a regular trip to the near by saloons, show rooms . kitties etc at expenses of already over worked gray . He wondered but he tried to ask her why she changed..Instead of replying she started refusing to be in arms with him …

He came back to his real form and started cursing her n all else.. ... Then what…..The positive feedback made it into a vicious circle of nonsense and rest all is history...

Angoor khate nahin hote agar jadon mein jhooth ka paani na daala hota…hmm
i just mean to say expectaions shud nt be nonn realistic at all..

The holy holidays

2006-11-18T17:50:00.000-08:00

<>When I was in India I was not happy with the no of holidays that we used to enjoy as every wise person used to say there that holiday are too many and it why Indian lags behind western countries as west does not waste time ;like Indians!

But now when in The States I see no difference in the no of holidays …In fact the situation here is a lazier one, these people are not at all ready to work on the weekends and never miss a chance for extended weekends.. i.e. more holidays … making it overall at least.120 holidays in a year... I dun criticize the no in either of the systems but there is one thing I dislike in the both.

Good thing about the Indian system is that each holiday is holy and in conveys a meaning but the bad thing is that Indian holidays are more or less wrongly placed and every single holiday that we celebrate wastes many more productive days .For instance if Diwali falls on Wednesday then Tuesday will be wasted on planning or shopping and Thursday will be lost in the hangover..I.e. physiological and psychological.

Good about the American style first five days in week are always scheduled for work and almost every one rests for two days. But the bane is that these rest days usually lack any tempo or meaning contribution to the society. Usually every one shops on Friday evenings, Friday night is wasted on clubbing, Saturday passes in hangover and Sunday for household works... only a few use this time to let their kids teach some moral lessons which are automatically nailed into the tiny souls when celebrating Indian style. Only thing people here know is Christmas as if no other religion is existing on this earth

Well for now it may look to be a utopian dream but I am looking for a system where weekends carry the message for coming generation and is not a time pass. It won’t make much of difference if we celebrate diwalil two days back or forth but it would look great if at least 52 Saturdays are celebrated as festivals and Sundays to relax and think why we celebrate particular event the previous day.

It wont change the significance of Good Friday if we celebrate it on the next day and if kids understand why the Good Friday has been converted into a Better Saturday.

Independence

2006-11-18T10:18:00.000-08:00

Guru, who was a software engineer, came to the states from India in late 80s with his doctor wife Rani. Their kid Gary the boy and Jessie the girl grew up the states clearly represent a clique of kids who have got best possible parents and the best possible conditions for development. In nutshell the best of both worlds

Rani was consistently worried about the interpretation of word independent into her kid’s right from the day one in their school when they were taught how to use 911. Parents were made mere observers from the role of models which they would have held if in India.

The first victim was Gary... being elder and a male he got easy exposure to newer values…ironical the first sign of independence here is shedding of virginity...ever since the D-day he cud not cum back to the tracks and then joined a group of local marauders until finally he was incarcerated. Parents had no other option but be a bit American and disavowed their elder son just to give a chance to the Jessie to go ahead in her life.

Jessie was good and hard working but a bit stubborn... disliking household chores and preferring mrican pizzas over Indian food. She had a weird passion for fragrances too.

She was only 18 when a cousin of her who was 35 came from India to settle in America…Deol was an illegal entrant but her parents helped him settle down in life.

Made street smart by the poverty and grilling in India……… he was ready to go any limits for settling there in The States. In his early days into US he got a chance to get into the black business of selling costly perfumes at lower prizes.

Meanwhile he was able to profile Jessie passion for fragrances too. So he started gifting newer and novel gifts to the girl. Jessie, the independent girl by now started spending most of her time with the guy until she was not able to resist her temptations and fell for the oldie. Rightly said” lanka was destroyed only with the help of an insider.”

Jessie eloped with Deol …leaving her already dead parents on no more grounds…she openly declared her independent and married Deol, giving no ears to any sane person.

Left with nothing good for their life Guru and Rani decided to call up the police and report that their son-in-law was an illegal immigrant.

He got deported about in a year and as Jessie cud not live amidst Indian mosquitoes she decided to cum back to states and started living alone like all black and white women.

This story does not end here ......

I pod deafness

2006-11-18T09:40:00.000-08:00

On a 24 hr long rail from Chicago to NYC ……. I noticed one thing thru out…… The consistent and pervasive silence…It was deafening…Though I spent most of the journey sleeping but every single moment I opened my eyes... I noticed it again…Silence…no chattering or what ever. A glaring contrast from the Punjab roadways where buses speak even if the passengers are quiet!

I strolled in many bogies but all-round every person was reading or sleeping... ONE more similarity…Every single ear had an ear phone plugged n it. From my previous experience with kids there I knew every one was listening music at the highest volumes so I pondered if the silence I was noticing is another paradox of advancement or some type of an acoustic mirage.

Ever since the invention of radio tape etc. we have been trying to customize and personalize these gadgets….Ear phones had been found to help prevent one music one music another person’s noise… But are we paying a price for it too..????????.

Knowingly we are making learned human beings listen to higher sounds for consisteningly longer periods... a predisposing factor for presbycusis. Is this habit going to give rise to AAAAAAA generation of deaf elderly humansor will some of their hair cells undergo mutations to adjust to theirs newer habits!

But obviously even if it happens it will take a million year because evolution does not occur in a flick of second…

Beware of I pods!

R Hill Mania!!

2006-11-11T07:19:00.000-08:00

On my first visit to queens New York I came to see… how Sikhism is spreading now days ….

????????? dun know why the Jatt Sikhs and Lubanas of the Richmond hill area have decided to create two dif. Gurudwaras in the same vicinity ( Richmond hill is one of the largest mini-communities of Indian immigrants at New York ) ..Well for the flag owners of Sikhism it might be a easy way to settle their ancestral scores… or what ever… but let me bring forth what r the consequences of these great landmarks..

I asked a little Jatt kid why Jatts dun go to Lubanas Gurudwaras... he replied “lubanas suck” ………. the answer wont have been different if I had asked some Lubanas kids about his views vis-à-vis.

It may sound bad to the religious leaders or Sikhs but the outcome is evident……………. The holy book which preaches god is one for beginning to end is being used to DIVIDE…………….ironically by our own wise men.

Now when I correlate this problem in Indian context I apprehend no difference…... …….The money is flowing in mass to Punjab villages by the respective leaders of communities… whether it be Jatt or Lubanas or Ramdasiyas...To create more fiefdoms in the name of God……..In nutshell the whole Punjab is destined to become a multitudes of Richmond hill.

Once again to remind our elders that Guru Nanak Dev Ji started langar so that every one whether be a king or the poorest man , a Sikh or a Muslim can sit in the same pandal and eat ……… what’s the fun if the Gurudwaras authorities were to decide who is going to sit in the pandal.

I will appreciate any sort of compromise formula to undo the original harm done and make sure that the follies of our elders dun become a part of our tradition before its to late.

Court TVs

2006-11-09T19:50:00.002-08:00

At the beginning hats off to the success of media in helping Mattoo……… to get justice years after her death and…… being the last hope to Jessica Lal and many others

The judiciary is getting sicker day by day … reasons being multitude...

Coming to the point... What do I mean when I rite the word court T V... Well it is again a copied concept... Obviously from America ... But can work under Indian condition too.

It inculcates the sense of our ancestors as Court TV will invite only the honorable judges of Indian judiciary to deliver verdict in the cases being undertaken by it…….

.but it will rely on the ultra modern techniques of criminal and civil law used in the states …. Saying bye to old outdated methods of evidence recording and presentation of Indian judiciary..

<>It also gives respect to lok adalat concept as… I would request the editorial tem to keep camera on every lok adalat so that every single case in India can get utmost importance.

It encompassed the accountability for every person as judges cant just deliver decision of their whims if every one is watching. It encompassed the quickness of Shari at courts.. ?? Isn’t it the only reason why Shariat court s is still persisting after 60 years of independence

Finally the dream is to see every single decision the Supreme Court of India to delivered under camera excluding the trials in which the victim decides not to face camera for personal reasons

Is some one listening?

Haloween

2006-11-01T10:19:00.000-08:00

In different cultures we celebrate different festivals... Rightly said festivities represent the ethos of the society....... One such feast in the west is Halloween.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween

I am interested to discuss it vis-à-vis Lohri of India.

http://www.lohrifestival.org/

In both festivals little kids go out seeking gifts to the neighourhood. In India with a great pomp and hullabaloo where the kids turn out in masses and elders make a lot fun too but here in the states you keep waiting for the tots but surprisingly you will find that the door bell rings scarcely. Most of the candies meant to be distributed ended with me only- koi lain hi nahi ayah.

Not only this...the kids utter only a single line trick or treat and go back with or without candies in India they will sing dulha bhatti etc. or yell or whatever till elders come down to their demands …no high spirits here.

Each kid was also usually accompanied by a parent... you know there is pedophile phobia in the states... never heard of the same sht back home

The only spirit I noticed here was among the guys saying that it is the only day when girls cud legally dress as sluts... never heard in India of such inspirations.

Another group that was enjoying was the egg throwers who went out on a throwing spree when sum home refused candies... well back home in India kids usually try to get their dues with a musical repartee vis-à-vis the violent kids.

Here even police is out on a check for pedophile or eggcrashers… I wonder??? Can we ever think of celebrating holi…. With this fear factor!!

Well I may be wrong in certain contexts while generalizing certain traditions that may have historical differences…. But for now if it’s between Halloween or Lohri my obvious choice is Lohri.

Freedom of speech

2006-10-27T23:12:00.000-07:00

I have been sent this link by my friends that if I keep on writing the blog I may be marked and may have to face the wall.

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/261006targetsbloggers.htm

I failed to understand why??????
why Do we fail to understand the difference in expression of speech sanely and propagandizing? Why there is a word called education to keep right stuff away from propaganda. And we do we shud be terrified of expressing even the most deserving truths.
If so then there would have been no media and no gutsy writers.

I remember some incidents of my fathers life in the is context where he always proved to be a flawless super human and thus became immortal in front of my eyes.. Those were the days of terrorism in Punjab when violation of human right was as rampant as mosquitoes in Africa .
Punjab police was supreme and no would ever dare to utter a word or he would be taken the banks of one of the 5 aabs and killed in a fake ENCOUNTER as labeled as a terrorist in aftermath to round up the proceedings.

Some tout reported to police that terrorists often visit my dads clinic and my dad is helping to heal their wounds (he is a physician !). When questioned by police whether he is a traitor or patriot he replied "even if you kill me and then try to see inside my heart??? can you find the name of any terrorist whom I had helped? It's my duty to try to medically heal any one whether he is police personal or a militant". The inspector had no more questions to ask and set him free.

When Indira was shot by the some outraged Sikhs every Sikh was khush.. on the lonely planet so was he ....as she misused her powers for pesonal retributions and destroyed the sanctity of secular principles. He had a different style of expressing and along with some Sikh locals decided to distribute sweets among the locals. They dared to the local B.S.F chownky and gave sweets to the C.O there.They was caught by B.S.F personal on pretext of connivance in a different crime ! But no could dare to take him and his friend out of the village and to branded as as desh drohis as every second person in the surrounding areas loved them and was standing outside the chownky to get them free.

Above were some glaring examples of truth fullmen fighting for freedom of expression
Just to remind ...the basics of democracy were laid the principles of liberty,soverienty and fraternity.

So dare to speak truth and enjoy it.

Universal Guru Nanak

2006-10-25T14:03:00.000-07:00

A little kid at NY stressed, I shud tell him and his friends a little about Guru(Teacher) Nanak as I belong to SPL, the place where The Great Guru spent 14 yrs of his life. Besides his biographical details why not share with you guys n gals something extra too to keep my words.

Let's talk with you the meaning of Mulmantra (First Verse written by Guru Nanak) which every Sikh is supposed to remember at least five times a day: Did you know!

Ik Onkar i.e. There is only one God: Plz tell this to Laden n this world will be safest place….no more jihads n fights in the name of religion.

Sat Naam i.e. His name is Truth: If Chinese govt. understood these there will be no ban on the freedom of press, No more genocide in Sudan and No further misery in Africa.

Karta Purakh i.e. He is the creator: i.e. He does every thing and nothing is in our control . If we understood this, there would be no more mental depression or psychiatric problems and we will be happy for ever.

Nirbhau i.e. He Sans fear, if we had no fear than we would never lie because it demands guts to speak truth …

Nirvair i.e. He Sans enmity: Plz tell this to Bush and ask him to leave Iraq.

Akal Murat i.e. He is Eternal: we will have to wait for few more centuries when modern physics will prove that this we can find every thing but God and he his existing just nanometers away from our reach

Ajuni i.e. He is Unborn: the maximum no. of mortal gurus prevail now days in Punjab. So, then how can we say that sikhs respect Guru Nanak

Saibangh i.e. He is Self effulgent: if we understood this we will never long for promiscuous desires and dun go for long chats seeking new “friends” on Myspace.com or go Clubbing at night hours.

Gurprasad i.e.God can be Realized only by His divine grace: means that God loves his beloved ones n it can be achieved by respecting our parents and elders: the thing what most kids now, think is shit!

That’s enough for now, If u liked this post , plz dont forget to forward the original message !!!!!!!!

Mera Pind

2006-10-25T10:57:00.001-07:00

ਜੱਨਤ ਨਾਲੋਂ ਸੋਹਣੀਆਂ ਮੇਰੇ "ਪਿੰਡ" ਦੀਆਂ ਗਲੀਆਂ, ਗਲੀਆਂ ਦੇ ਵਿੱਚ ਖੇਡ ਕੇ ਕੁੱਝ ਰੀਝਾਂ ਪਲੀਆਂ, ਹਾਣੀ ਮੇਰੇ ਹਾਣ ਦੇ ਹੋ ਮੇਰੇ ਦਿਲ ਦੇ ਜਾਨੀ, ਜਿੱਥੇ ਬਚਪਨ ਬੀਤਿਆ ਤੇ ਚੜੀ ਜਵਾਨੀ, ਬਚਪਨ ਜਿੱਥੇ ਬੀਤਿਆ ਮੈਂ ਕਿੰਵੇਂ ਭੁਲਾਵਾਂ, ਆਪਣੇ ਸੁਰਗਾਂ ਵਰਗੇ "ਪਿੰਡ" ਤੋਂ ਮੈਂ ਸਦਕੇ ਜਾਵਾਂ, ਆਪਣੇ ਸੁਰਗਾਂ ਵਰਗੇ "ਪਿੰਡ" ਤੋਂ ਮੈਂ ਸਦਕੇ ਜਾਵਾਂ. . . . Courtesy: Anonymous

Culture shock 2006-10-22T23:06:00.000-07:00 When the seeds are imported and breed is of high quality the yield is always good.That’s the rule which most farmers in India follow but it’s different in America. The produce is same whether it’s of a native seed or a high quality import. It will take a few thousand dollars and a millions dollars worth of luck to understand the meaning of my words. It was the last weekend of my trip to US nd I was in clubbing at Taj .........They say that the if dun see a club and take a lap dance ur trip to mrica is not safal. Lacking guts to pursue high ambitions I decided to settle with the first option. It was cool outside while hot chicks’ n white guys were poundin music inside the bar. I decided not to shiver any more in cold.......... ya hoooooooooo......... My only previous experience of dancing was at euphoria parties n that to Punjabi style.....ek jatt n bhangra........... so I was quite worried ki how will I handle white chicken. Ooops........................ ..sometimes it’s not bad to have beautiful dreams n that too when u r not toooooooooooo.......... funky n highlyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy rustic. Anyway, I was able to shed some inhibition n ask a lonely white lady for her company “Yeah my pleasure but, I m with a guy n he is supposedly cumin in few minutes”. .. just kiddin.. . I talked only few secs with her till she saw her buddie. Hesitatingly, I was looking for any desi chick…as I cud anticipate........ the racism inside vaise bhi they say never try to talk to......... puri black...........OR......... white……jute padne ka pura chance hota hai. BUT how can I find Indian girls in a bar kyunki................ saas bhi kabhi bahu thi. SO, I decided to take a corner seat N njoy a spicy novelty. Oh my god! I didn’t even know that;;;;;;;;; boys dun approach girl……. but clung to them. No one seemly opposed. My friend told me it’s called grinding in cool lingo. God forbid……… we dun try it at euphoria party. Meanwhile I got a intuition ..at some desi stuff is there n nw I shud have sum chance....... All four of them were havin a cup of American coke.. Ha ha.. in hands N shakin........... After sum time I used my clinical skills to get attention of one them .....................Actually it was only after my fren told me one looks interested in this lonely guy.......... I decided to talk. “You look smart” she said. Oh thanks! N my excitement was at hell high. “Do u drink” was the next inquiry. No, I said with proud. You r not soooooooooooooooooooo smart n she left me dryyyy to try else where. Every one was amokkkkkkkkk… dancin…to the tunes of I dun no nothing. As the time was passin it was gettin hotTTTTTTTT…….. For the first time I realized ki why there is a word in English called orgy. A turbaned papaji was tryin grindin too ..but in America dun just go by looks……...okay. It looked all were at the helm of first love...... par kahda first love te kahda koi hor . My fren asked if I need to get any more exp??????????????……. than we can go to another club where we will find desis exclusively but it was enough for me to kno why mom says ki mrica ch no clubbin. Premier Dream 2006-10-22T21:11:00.000-07:00 If I was the Prime minister of India? I would have given priority to the farmers of my country and would have scraped the age old system of Patwaris and replaced it with e-patwry. All land deals would have been made to take place in a flick of second. Next in list would have been a centralized voice scanned based data of every Indian. So that every one cud identify him or herself on phone and make important nets like riting any FIR, filing RTI requests etc. I would have declared economic crime as criminal so that no one cud dare to challenge any one economically by doin any crime etc. There I would have liked to copy American system of punishing defaulters. There would have been empowerment of the judiciary by simplification and modernization of criminal procedures .There would have been a moral code of conduct for the judges and would have been liable for their decisions as they are now days in states. I would have supported filing of punitive alimonies in the manner it is done in western countries……. in terms of millions rupees. There would have been cent percent socialization of education so that age old tradition of Guru-Shishya live forever and not be replaced by the capitalistic system of western world where rarely any one love to study and only the richest get best degrees . I would have a imposed a minimal corporate tax on all religious institutions and made them keep their financial records like private companies with auditing each year. The two child norm would have been advised n not enthused with financial reward for good Indians and stricter penalties for the unchecked breeders. Polygamy would have been allowed but with a clause that with any additional wife only one additional kid is allowed. There would have been affirmative action as reservation where every community would have benefited in terms of reservation but there would have been no freebie for the kids of higher gods. I would have shifted this power from the hands of ministers to a committee which would have been asked to end disparity among all strata in a span of fifty more years n then there will be no reservation at all .The financial Supreme Court would have been requested to decide for the criterion which separate cream from the watery milk. The labor act would have been changed in a phased manner to incorporate the best of social n capitalistic system. But it would have been designed to change in a way that in the end we go towards final capitalization with only socialized system in education n defense. Legalization of prostitution would be done thereby ending the misery of poor and powerless women forever. There would have Arab style punishment for all drug offences so that the blood our kids run pure for generations to come. Heavy taxes for smoking n moderate for alcohol would have been imposed. Last but not the least I would have increased the cost of Indian life by making Govt. officials liable for their actions and increased the Govt. support per casualty to one crore INR per death of any individual with value addition in terms of money for “the educated or young casualties” besides I must have tripled the income of all public servants of what they are getting in Govt. set up nowadays so that they cud say good bye to all forms of greed for money and give up corruption with dignity. There r thousand more things to be done in addition to above blue print. Greatest blunder 2006-10-22T19:31:00.000-07:00 As a teenager, I got a chance to appear in Service Selection Board (SSB), interview. In India it is considered the toughest amongst all interviews but it was fun for me as I was supposed to fail in it :) My mother would arbitrarily die, if I joined the Indian army. But I still remember those days in Bangalore and the topic of group discussion. Titled “what has been the greatest historical blunder on earth”? In those days it was a gut feeling that made me think again and again that the worst event till date has been partition of India, probably inspired by the old Hindi movies where I cud see the yelling stuff. But today while crossing the George Washington over Hudson old thoughts stuck me again.What has been the greatest historical blunder? I started talking to Toor bhaaji and oops, once again the answer is same, division of 1947. British follower their policy of Divide and Rule and divided the great Indian geographical landscape into twin states of India and Pakistan besides initiating the greatest blood shed. It was the Brit policy to wreck us and go back home before leaving the soil they plundered for 400 years and leaving us r fighting on silly issues of Kashmir , beef , cows etc. forever. After 50 years when Osama created 9/11, world suddenly realized that terrorism has no boundaries and Arab world is unsafe and a breeding ground for terrorists, but I know it would have been a different chapter all together had Brits not divided India There would have been no Pakistan n thus no terrorist training camps and no Bangladesh thus no more poor men ready to be manipulated . Also, worlds one third of Muslims would have been the part of one respected democracy i.e. India and so there would have been a great number of moderate and modern Muslims-- a species West is nowadays desperately looking for. India has provided the best milieu for the growth of all ideologies and so had been sweet home most for Muslims. Ironically Brits are amongst the most affected from modern terrorism. An adage truly says,” If you try to divide the family of others, yours home will not be safe either.” Organising Doctors 2006-10-14T04:58:00.001-07:00 My observation of loopholes in Indian health system and some measures to rectify it It is often said that a healthy nation stands on the edifice of healthy people. When the system to provide health care itself suffers from ailments, seemingly incurable, the situation turns out to be hopeless. In India, known to be the land of paradoxes, a glaring paradox prevails in the health care system too. Though the medical colleges of this country produce thousands of graduates every year, few remain willing to serve in the Indian conditions. The ailment lies in the very foundation of the system which produces doctors who are masters of theory (an Indian graduate rarely fails in USMLE/PLAB exams) but western countries who give prominence to practical knowledge accept them only after a retest. Country spends much resource to produce a good doctor but no one prefers to stay here to serve the nation and its people who bear the costs together. But if that group is incentivised to stay in the country through a good policy not only would the nation get the fair returns but the crumbling medical system where people die without treatment in most situations will also improve. A good measure of thought is required to know how to utilize a big pool of specialists, who run out of the country only to make good money, with a viable and feasible institutional setup to prevent the multitude of population dying in the presence of multitude of doctors. Most of the doctors, powerless otherwise, tend to grab power (money) through unethical means. There is a big hawala route through which money circulates from a physician to an investigator to another physician. So most of the money doctors earn in India can be termed black money. This is called dichotomy in medical dictionary as most of them work in isolation but still manage to create an underground network of illegal associations. Statistics says that when a poor person falls ill not only the current income of the person goes towards the treatment but often the savings also get absorbed or even debt occurs. This all happens in privately runs hospitals where doctors eat whole pound of flesh of patients through hefty bills and as the situation gets out of control those dying patients are referred to a Tertiary Care Govt. Hospital to avoid the ill consequences. This is one of the most important reasons for the ill repute of the Govt. run hospitals as they are made to treat an already doomed patient. The sex ratio in India has gone down from respectable figures to the most humiliating only because of the nexus of unethically run private institutions. Private labs associate with such doctors who are paid up to 50% as commission, further adding to the costs of treatment (rather ill treatment). Here emerges a gloomy picture where technically trained doctors in most likelihood leave the country to earn money and prestige abroad, but those who remain in India indulge in fraudulent practices to keep their pockets bulging out always. Such practitioners are scattered all over but the major obstacle is how to prevent or eradicate such a situation. The remedy lies in its internal mechanism only but it needs to be coordinated in a better manner through an efficient institutional framework with some accountability towards those who are being served and towards institution itself. The organization of these `Scattered Doctors' into institutional set ups (ISUs) can solve most of these unethical practices. No doctor should serve in isolation. There should be a pre-signed list of minimum one practitioner from each specialty. These physicians should refer the patients among themselves only. Each lab should consign itself to one of such ISUs and should not work in isolation. Government should give tax incentives like tax holidays, easy accessibility of land so that such institutions could be set up. It will not only cut corruption but also will lead to a holistic multi-speciality care where poor would get rightly diagnosed and treated rather than dying even without knowing the right disease they suffered from. For instance, in a city like Jalandhar (Punjab) where one can find more than 600 specialists serving in isolation a simple change in policy would create 10-20 Tertiary Care Institutions. This will lead to a boom in the lagging health industry and poor health statistics of country would show some positive signs of recovery. This will make doctor more responsible to patients and they will not be referred for terminal care to public institutions. This will preclude the occurrence of so called phenomena of dichotomy, because no doctor can then refer outside the Institution. This whole system can work as a backbone of the Indian Health System. Bhagat Singh 2006-10-14T04:57:00.000-07:00 Incorporating Shaheed Bhagat Singhs Nonviolence in anti-reservation protest Dear Friends, I am some one who represents the general category students in its most humble form. My parents are landless farmers who sweltered every second of their life to make me a doctor. My first day in the medical college was unforgettably shocking when I saw the scheduled category students in extremely wealthy conditions and poor people like getting admission in most difficult manner into the college. Today our government is trying to finish off even the last chances of poor people like me by giving away a pound of flesh to the creamy layer OBCs. I oppose it. Friends, it is unfortunate for that I am not able to join you in person in demonstration against the bill as I am in the United States now days. However, I wish to suggest you one weapon which can make our voice heard inside the Indian parliament. In the pre-independence days young Bhagat Singh exploded harmless bombs inside the British India's parliament to oppose the passage of labor bill in 1929. Today we need some resonant step like that to make our voices heard. Today our politicians respond more to the language of religion / fanatics / vote banks etc. while crushing any scientific logic that comes in their ways. The non-representation of anti-reservation lobby inside the parliament by even a single politician is a glaring example of it .Mass protests of students are being crushed with the power of water canons , tear gas , muscle power , stoppage of salaries and by threatening our juniors with a FAIL in the professional examinations . Now let me go to the main point .I suggest Cow Dung bombs (CDBs) as an as an armor against the reservation lobby. CDBs is not a bomb but actually CDBs are cow dung balls i.e. a collection of wet cow dung in plastic packs which can be thrown on our antithesis .It may look to be a funny idea or even caprice to some of the readers but if you analyze the concepts behind the idea you will see that it encompasses a great ideology at its core. Cow is a sacred animal so our politicians can not dare to speak against cow dung in front of Indian public. Cow dung has been historically used in our homes as agent to purify bad evil by spreading it over house floors. Besides, we can also make ourselves heard inside the parliament if we are able to smash the face of a single politician with this sacred weapon. Also there will be no fear of getting absents by our juniors who waste their days in demonstrations as we can strike selected targets in the night time. Lastly if we throw CDBs on police men in demonstrations the water of water canon will be used by these government goons to wash their own faces rather than dispersing students. I filmy believe that if incorporated in as mass weapon CDBs can turn cards subside down. I end my rhetoric by quoting a famous quote" only a diamond can cut a diamond" so I believe "only CDBs can clean the sullen face our leaders." JAI HIND Inquilab Zindabad. Vande Mataram 2006-10-14T04:55:00.000-07:00 Against: Should "Vande Mataram" be made compulsory in schools? Could patriotism be taught in schools? No. It came naturally to our forebears facing the atrocities of colonial bigotry .War songs like Vande Mataram only united freedom-fighters for mission "swaraj" than igniting the fire for nationalism. Child psychology is like a potter's clay contingent upon every delicate touch in its final shape. The learning of scientific attitude and unbiased awareness of human history makes responsible citizens. The failure of Madrasaas to provide scientific education besides acting as a breeding ground for "jihad's ideology" vis-à-vis the success rate of convent schools, kendriya vidayalas etc. is a glaring example. Morning assembly time in schools is a transition period to divert attention of kids from home to academic affairs besides acting as a dice for public speaking. The inclusion of stories about national, international, religious, mythological heroes in our board books provide a great platform to keep kids aware of national values. All educational institutions autonomously decide their assembly schedule and protocols while unanimously concluding it with anthem as a mark of respect to their mother land. It looks like a multicolored flower held by one stem. Thus any demand to bleach the flower to one color sounds totalitarian and arrogant. It rather insinuates to the political avarice due to which our leaders are not hesitating to make scapegoat of the fledgling souls. In today's electronic age economic pundits are preaching the rhetoric of national interdependance .Geographical boundaries are getting tenuous and one world looks to a near possible dream. In this scenario asking future to wear the sleeve of chauvinism will a step backwards. Despite all advances as the threat of terror is cumulative, the need to have faithful national guardians is increasing. But there are only a few institutions like Sainik schools, NDA, IMA etc. which provide majority of human resource to armed forces. Were the demand of teaching national war sagas been limited to this subset of institutes it would have been more justified. Sultanpur Gurupurav 2006-10-14T04:46:00.000-07:00 It is one of the most auspicious and proud moments for the city of Sultanpur lodhi (SPL) when it go to celebrate the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak -one of the most pious person's to have ever blessed this land. I have not been there many times viewing the glory of occasion. But one thing that struck me in one of my rare visits was lack of patience with which the people in this mini town go for the glorious ocassion. Truly speaking memories are not so good. The congested spot on that night was in front of Gurdwara Ber Sahib – where every one was struck. Thousands of visitor men, women, boys, girls, jeeps, trolleys were struck in this stampede and there was an electric wire dangling over. It was loose n sparking and I thought it will fall now or later burning and killing hundreds. Then came was a convoy of one red tape or religious leader which swept through the crowd with rash speed brushing us aside as if were a horde of animals. Drunken guys were using this time to their best, touching women and girls. A woman about 30 standing near by screamed "kanjro tuhade ghar koi maan bhain nahin haigi" and then desperately started looking to the Ber Sahib saying "baba duniya daa bhala karin". There were several questions which flshed through my brain and nevertheless all are unanswered till today. First, have we SPLians ever thought or given a thought about the management failures which have led to lots and lots of repeated stampedes all over India which kill mainly children and women Secondly, who is the person or body controlling the overall organization of this mega festival or is it every one can go there and participate in its own faith and organize mini event like langar or place a stall etc. Thirdly, what is the role of police department and policemen in the safety of people in the festival? Are they mere speactators or do they really have any good function to add. Fourthly, what is the role of SPL administration in making the event? Do the officials like SDM have ever given a thought to the administration failures that have led to bad memories in the history of India or are we near to witnessing one more at our place too.