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Reflections: Doctor Patient relationship: a Chasm?
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Reflections on everything from an Indian expatriate. Friday, April 24, 2015. Doctor Patient relationship: a Chasm? The relationship between doctors and their patients has undergone a sea change in India . Gone are the days of paternalism, when doctors ordered and the patients listened. But in today's consumer driven market place, this no longer holds good. However such concerns are not just Indian. Similar concerns consume American doctors as well. And that is where the polarization comes from: money....
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Reflections: Calcutta Must Shine by Vivek Sengupta.
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Reflections on everything from an Indian expatriate. Monday, March 5, 2012. Calcutta Must Shine by Vivek Sengupta. This article was published in Pragati, The Indian National Interest Review. http:/ pragati.nationalinterest.in/ This free magazine discusses strategic issues related to India. The articles are often very thought provokimg. This article is from its latest edition. The original artilce can be read here. City Calcutta saw the mushrooming of high end housing projects, five-star hotels, glitzy sh...
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Reflections: A trip to Beijing: the Great Wall of China
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Reflections on everything from an Indian expatriate. Wednesday, October 23, 2013. A trip to Beijing: the Great Wall of China. Continuing the account by Dr Madhumita Sen. Petrol is really expensive in China, but you wouldn’t think so looking at the number of cars on the road! Chinese food (tinned or preserved), cosmetics, toys and clothes are also looked down upon (Chinese cosmetics are really bad, says Alice. “We try to save up and buy only French! 8221; L’Oreal is her favourite). Hope she’s right! A wor...
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Reflections: The History of the Observance of Ekushe February : Part 2
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Reflections on everything from an Indian expatriate. Thursday, March 15, 2012. The History of the Observance of Ekushe February : Part 2. Rally on 21.02.1954 by Moulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman marching barefoot to pay their tributes. Source: Banagabandhu Foundation. Chittagong was no less eventful. Mahbubul Alam Choudhury, the editor of the periodical Seemanta and the composer of the very first poem on 21st February, writes. MahbubuI AIam Choudhury's poem 'Not for Tears Have I...
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Reflections: April 2015
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Reflections on everything from an Indian expatriate. Friday, April 24, 2015. Doctor Patient relationship: a Chasm? The relationship between doctors and their patients has undergone a sea change in India . Gone are the days of paternalism, when doctors ordered and the patients listened. But in today's consumer driven market place, this no longer holds good. However such concerns are not just Indian. Similar concerns consume American doctors as well. And that is where the polarization comes from: money....
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Reflections: Selling Sickness : A Classic Paper: continued
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Reflections on everything from an Indian expatriate. Thursday, May 14, 2015. Selling Sickness : A Classic Paper: continued. The second and final part of the paper by Moynihan et al. What for many people is a mild functional disorder—requiring little more than reassurance about. Its benign natural course—is currently being reframed as a serious disease attracting a label and a drug, with all the associated harms and costs. Confidential plan to “shape” medical opinion. Drome] must be established in the min...
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Reflections: Landing a catch on Cherai Beach: A photo essay
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Reflections on everything from an Indian expatriate. Wednesday, February 25, 2015. Landing a catch on Cherai Beach: A photo essay. This is series of pictures of a fishing boat landing its catch on Cherai Beach, Kochi Kerala. The pictures were taken on my recent trip in February. Two fishermen at dawn, drawing in the lines. Work over, they rest for a while. Man's best friend awaits the landing of the catch. They now head for the shore. The boat has landed. Pushing the boat on to the beach. Musical Bandbox...
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Reflections: Flower Power: an Essay by Susmita Dutta
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Reflections on everything from an Indian expatriate. Tuesday, January 27, 2015. Flower Power: an Essay by Susmita Dutta. We all know about the effects of opium on the brain, and how it can both numb pain and produce hallucinations. During the Romantic era. Which saw the emergence of. Of literature and poetry, it was also noted that there was an increased use of opium, as it was thought that opium opened creative channels and made imaginations more vivid (Abrams, M. H. [1934]. All said and done, the.
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Reflections: The Ladies of Calcutta
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Reflections on everything from an Indian expatriate. Wednesday, September 16, 2009. The Ladies of Calcutta. Musical Bandbox used to be our window to Western Popular music in the Calcutta of the sixties and seventies. At one o clock every Sunday thousands of youngsters used to tune in to this. The song was apparently sung by Bill Forbes also known as Kal Khan. He was born in Colombo in Sri Lanka and went to the UK at the age of 17 to become a singer and star. The words of the song went like this:. A Dani ...
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Reflections: The Uttar Banga Anath Ashram ( North Bengal Orphanage)
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Reflections on everything from an Indian expatriate. Thursday, July 2, 2009. The Uttar Banga Anath Ashram ( North Bengal Orphanage). Uma Mallick looks like an ordinary Bengali Housewife. She wears a standard cotton sari, vermillion on her forehead and travels clinging to her husband’s motorcycle as he whizzes past in Siliguri’s notorious lanes. The youngest is 22 months old. She sleeps peacefully, a cherubic smile on her face, unaware that she was abandoned by her parents in Siliguri Station. The...The c...
