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MY PAPPY MY BEST FRIEND,HERO AND GUIDE

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HI ALL..................TODAY IS FATHERS' DAY AND I MISS MY FATHER MR.H.SAHASRANAMAN  VERY MUCH.I CAN WRITE A THESIS ON MY FATHER .HE WAS GREAT LIKE ALL FATHERS.A BIT MORE GREAT FOR ME. I USED TO CALL HIM PAPPY SINCE WE USED READ LOTS OF FICTION ABOUT THE WILD WEST. BOOKS BY OLIVER STRANGE,MAX BRAND AND LOUIS L'AMOUR.MY FATHER USED TO BUY BOOKS ,READ THEM FIRST AND ENCOURAGED MY BROTHERS AND MYSELF TO READ THEM. SO WE DEVOURED BOOKS ABOUT SUDDEN AND OTHER WESTERN CHARACTERS.I USED TO LOVE THE "SUDDEN "BOOKS.JAMES GREEN OR" SUDDEN" AS THEY CALLED HIM DUE TO HIS LIGHTNING SPEED WITH THE GUN IS A FICTIONAL CHARACTER CREATED BY OLIVER STRANGE IN 1930.HE IS PORTRAYED AS AN INTELLIGENT AND RESOURCEFUL AND DRIFTING COWBOY VERY BRAVE AND MINDFUL OF THE LAW AND VERY VERY UNWILLING TO USE HIS GUN UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NEEDED. THE DESCRIPTION WAS SO BEAUTIFUL THAT YOU FELT YOU WERE ACTUALLY TRANSFERRED TO THE AMERICAN WILD WEST. VIVID DESCRIPTIONS OF AMERICAN WIL

THE ROLE OF EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE IN KOLKATA AND CHENNAI

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HI ALL......BORN AND BROUGHT UP IN KOLKATA IN MY LIFE I HAVE HAD SOME SCOPE TO SEE BRILLIANT THEATRE LIKE "FOOTBALL" BY RUDRAPRASAD SENGUPTA . IT WAS A MASTERPIECE WITH BRILLIANT PERFORMANCES.WITH MINIMUM OF SETS.I STILL REMEMBER THE SONG LINES "BABA THOL THOL BABA THOL THOL BABA THOL THOL REFEREE "THAT WAS A BRILLIANTLY DIRECTED BRILLIANTLY ENACTED DRAMA.OR THEATRE AS BENGALIS CALL IT. ANOTHER DRAMA I SAW IN KOLKATA WAS DAIBADDHYA (RESPONSIBILITY) BY MEGHNATH BHATTACHARYA. THE STORY WAS ABOUT A LORRY DRIVER WHO WAS A DRUNKARD ACCOMPANIED BY HIS CLEANER .BUT IN THE DAY TIME HE WAS A LORRY DRIVER.HE SAVED A LADY WHO BELONGED TO A RICH FAMILY BUT WAS TORTURED BY HER IN LAWS AND WAS GOING TO COMMIT SUICIDE WITH HER BABY. HE TOOK THE LADY TO HIS HOUSE.THE LADY DID HER DUTIES BUT NEVER THOUGHT THAT HE WAS EQUAL TO HER.BUT HE WAS ALWAYS RESPECTFUL TO THE LADY.SHE HATED HIM FOR HIS DRUNKEN HABITS.AND THE CYCLE RECURRED WHEN THE BABY GREW UP TO BECOME A BEAUTIFUL GIRL

STUFFED PANEER TOMATO

SINCE I AM DIABETIC AND A HEART PATIENT WITH TWO DRUG ELUTING STENTS IN MY HEART,I ALWAYS GO IN FOR PRACTICALLY OIL LESS RECIPES.I LIKE COOKING ON MY MICROWAVE OVEN AND AIRFRYER.HERE IS A DIABETIC HEART FRIENDLY RECIPE FOR YOU............... ENJOY .

THE MIRACULOUS CASE OF THE STOMACH CANCER PATIENT

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HI ALL....WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT PLASTIC AND PLASTIC RECYCLING FOR A LONG TIME.SO LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE MIRACLE WHICH REALLY OCCURRED IN A PATIENT OF MINE LONG YEARS BACK.I HEARD ABOUT IT STRAIGHT FROM THE PATIENT'S RELATIVE THAT IS STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSES' MOUTH. YOU SEE I AM A GENERAL SURGEON IN THE PROPER SENSE .THAT MEANS I AM AN UROLOGIST,GASTRO INTESTINAL SURGEON,ENDOCRINE SURGEON,PLASTIC SURGEON ,COLORECTAL SURGEON AND BREAST SURGEON ALL ROLLED IN ONE.THERE WAS NO SUCH DIFFERENTIATION IN THE GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL I WORKED IN.A GENERAL SURGEON WAS A GENERAL SURGEON AND HAD TO PERFORM ALL TYPES OF SURGERY. I HAVE EVEN PLASTERED PATIENTS WITH FRACTURES,PUT THEM ON TRACTION .I HAVE EVEN DONE ALL TYPES OF AMPUTATIONS INCLUDING MID THIGH AMPUTATION FOR GANGRENE IN DIABETIC PATIENTS.THAT WAS BEFORE THE HOSPITAL GOT ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS.THE AMPUTATIONS WE GENERAL SURGEONS HAD TO DO EVEN AFTER ORTHOPEDIC SURGEONS CAME INTO THE SERVICE..BUT IN PRIVATE CLINICS THE ORTHOPEDIC S

PLASTIC AND PLASTIC RECYCLING

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HI ALL. I AM FRUSTRATED ABOUT THIS POLLUTION BUSINESS.A LADY FROM THE CHENNAI MUNICIPALITY HAD COME TO MY DOOR TO EXPLAIN ABOUT THE SEGREGATION OF PLASTIC WASTE AND WHEN I TOLD HER THAT I HAVE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A LONG TIME BUT THE HOUSE KEEPING LADIES IN OUR APARTMENT COMPLEX SELL OFF THE PLASTIC WASTE TO KABADIWALAHS,  SHE TOLD ME WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT?.IMAGINE!!! A PUBLIC SERVANT SAYING SUCH THINGS!!! THEN WHAT IS THE USE OF SEGREGATING WASTE?I CAN SELL THE PLASTIC TO A KABADIWALAH AND EARN SOME MONEY MYSELF.AND THE PLASTIC IS SOLD TO A DEALER AND GETS RECYCLED.IN WATER SCARCE CHENNAI THE POOR WHO CANNOT AFFORD COSTLY CONTAINERS TO STORE WATER USE RECYCLED PLASTIC PITCHERS IN ALL RAINBOW COLORS WITHOUT REALISING THAT THEY ARE HARBORING CANCER PRODUCING SUBSTANCES IN THEIR HOMES.AND ALL THE FAMILIES INCLUDING SMALL CHILDREN ARE PRONE TO CANCER. AND THIS IS ALL RECYCLED CARCINOGENIC PLASTIC.I GOT REALLY ANNOYED WITH THAT LADY FOR SAYING THAT IT IS NOT WRONG FOR THE H

PLASTIC OR NO PLASTIC.

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WELL THE WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY CAME AND WENT .THERE WERE SEVERAL PROGRAMS AND ACTIONS TAKEN YESTERDAY. IN SRINAGAR I HAVE SEEN THE DAL LAKE SO POLLUTED WITH ALL TYPES OF WASTE ESPECIALLY PLASTIC WASTE.THE SHIKARA I TRAVELLED WITH MY FRIEND IN ALMOST MOVED INCH BY INCH AND THE HOUSE BOATS WERE PARKED IN THE SIDES AMIDST SO MUCH CLUTTER THAT I MYSELF WOULDNOT STAY ON IT FOR THE VIEW OF DUMPED WASTE.OF COURSE THERE WAS A CLEAR STRETCH TOO BUT THE SHIKARAS DID NOT OR WERE NOT ALLOWED TO GO THERE. IN TODAY'S HINDU NEWSPAPER I SAW A PICTURE OF THE DAL LAKE CLEARED OF PLASTIC WASTE AND A WOMAN RIDING SMOOTHLY ON HER BOAT.NOT FULLY OF COURSE.BUT ATLEAST THE MOVEMENT HAS STARTED. HERE ARE CERTAIN PICTURES TAKEN BY MY FRIEND AMALA, PICTURES OF THE DAL LAKE WHICH IS NOT SHOWN IN ADVERTISEMENTS. AND THERE WERE SEVERAL SHOPS ON THE POLLUTED STINKING LAKE AS WE PASSED BY ON OUR SHIKARA. THE SAME THING IS TRUE ABOUT THE WORLD FAMOUS  VENICE.THE WATER WAS SO POLLUTED A

ENVIRONMENT AND POLLUTION

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TODAY IS WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY.BUT IS EVERYONE AWARE OF THAT? HERE I AM WRITING THIS BLOG IN MY AIRCONDITIONED ROOM.WHEN I GO OUT I USE MY AIR CONDITIONED CAR.BUT YOU CANNOT DO ALL YOUR WORK IN AIRCONDITIONED PLACES. I AM A COPD (CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE) PATIENT.SO WHEN I GO OUT OF MY FLAT OR WHEN I GET OUT OF MY CAR  MY WHEEZING STARTS.I KEEP MY BED ROOM WINDOWS ALWAYS CLOSED AND SLEEP IN THE AIR CONDITIONED ROOM.BUT WHEN MY MAID DUSTS THE FLOOR NEXT MORNING HEAPS OF DUST COME OUT.EVEN IF I DUST MY WHOLE FLAT ALMOST DAILY THE NEXT DAY THE PLACES ARE COVERED WITH DUST.IT IS NOT AS IF MY FLAT FACES THE ROADSIDE.IT IS A BIT INSIDE THE BUILDING COMPLEX AND ON THE SECOND FLOOR . DESPITE THIS THE DUST SOMEHOW MIRACULOUSLY APPEARS.THUS POLLUTED IS THE ENVIRONMENT IN CHENNAI. THE SAME WAS TRUE FOR KOLKATA WHERE I LIVED TILL RECENTLY. A LITTLE BIT LESS SINCE I LIVED IN THE SUBURBS.WHEN I GO OUT TO SOME VILLAGE I FEEL IT EASY TO BREATHE.BUT NOWADAYS EVEN VILLAGE AIR IS POLLUT

THE MOVING MENACE ON THE ROAD PART II

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ON 6TH MAY I HAD WRITTEN ALL ABOUT THE RECKLESSNESS AND UNCARING ATTITUDE OF AUTO DRIVERS IN CHENNAI AND KOLKATA. WELL THE AUTO DRIVER HAS STRUCK AGAIN.MY BROTHER WAS TRAVELLING IN A BIKE AND THE MENACE STRUCK HIM ON THE LEFT SIDE AND PROBABLY FRACTURED HIS WRIST.HE HAS GONE TO THE HOSPITAL FOR AN XRAY. RECENTLY MY COLLEAGUE GOT HURT BY AN AUTO AND HAD TO BE ADMITTED IN HOSPITAL FOR MAJOR FRACTURES IN HER LOWER LIMB.SHE IS STILL RECOVERING. AND THE WIFE OF A KOLKATA COLLEAGUE OF MINE HERSELF A BRILLIANT GYNAECOLOGIST IS LYING ON HER BED LIKE A VEGETABLE FOR THE PAST FEW YEARS. THESE ARE VERY BAD EXPERIENCES AND I ALMOST FEEL THAT EACH AND EVERY AUTO DRIVER MUST BE BEATEN ON THE STREETS AND THEN GIVEN DEATH SENTENCE.BUT THIS IS ONLY REFLECTING MY ANGER. THERE ARE QUITE A FEW NICE AUTO DRIVERS.LIKE THE ONE WHO WENT TO THE HOUSE OF A PERSON WHO HAD LEFT HIS PURSE AND MOBILE IN THE AUTO.THE PURSE CONTAINED A LOT OF MONEY.THE AUTO DRIVER FOUND THE HOUSE AND RETURNED THE PURSE A

BANANA STEM SALAD

HI ALL.TODAY LET US DO SOME SIMPLE COOKING.WITH INGEDIENTS VERY VERY BENEFICIAL TO ALL ESPECIALLY DIABETIC AND HEART PATIENTS. IN THIS VIDEO I HAVE DESCRIBED HOW TO MAKE A BANANA STEM SALAD AND THE BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF THE SALAD.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE VANISHING DERMATOLOGIST

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STRANGE AS IT SEEMS THIS HAPPENED TO ME WHEN I WAS ON A SHORT TRIP TO AGARTALA FOR A MEDICAL CAMP. THE HOSPITAL HAD BOOKED FLIGHT TICKETS FOR MYSELF AND A LADY DERMATOLOGIST. I DID NOT MEET HER TILL LATER ON . I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO VISIT THIS HOSPITAL AT TIMES TO DO SURGERY ON SOME PATIENTS.I AM A GENERAL SURGEON BY PROFESSION AND AFTER MIGRATING TO CHENNAI I DECIDED TO DO FREELANCE SURGICAL CASES RATHER THAN START MY OWN CLINIC. AND THEN I WAS ASKED BY THIS EMINENT CARDIOLOGIST TO GO TO TRIPURA FOR EXAMINING PATIENTS AND DO SURGERY IF NEEDED.THIS WAS PARTLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT I CAN SPEAK BENGALI FLUENTLY DUE TO MY BEING IN KOLKATA FOR UMPTEEN YEARS. IN TRIPURA THE MAXIMUM POPULATION IS BENGALI . THIS OFCOURSE WAS A GOD SENT OPPORTUNITY TO ME SINCE I LOVE SEEING PATIENTS AND DO SURGERY ON THEM IF NEEDED. WELL ALL   THIS SEEMS TO BE OUT OF MY TOPIC SINCE I WANTED TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE VANISHING DERMATOLOGIST. BUT YOU WOULD NEED THIS INTRODUCTION TO UNDERSTAND