When the popular Times magazine started 2021, with a rather peppy blemish of 2020, re-assuring the end of the worst pandemic of all times, there was appreciation. Simplistically, they had equated the malady with a.
Mantra, Mantri, and Gotra
Anoop Kohli is a senior consultant neurologist at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi. His interests go far beyond his chosen profession. For him, it s just one game of life so interesting to study for all its themes and aberrations. He also dabbles in script-writing and recently got a membership of the Bombay Film Writers Association. In this blog, Masquerader, expect from him anything from H1N1 to Heena. LESS. MORE
Just as well, that vocabulary from ancient Sanskrit scripts has found an appropriate place in today’s management interactions, whether that be formal, or lay jargon. Language is ever in search for a more appropriate word, as you have from Latin, Greek, French. Coming to some more from Sanskrit, the word “Guru” is more commensurate with today’s management, than “Boss”, more suited to the underworld dons. Thanks to the interaction over years of bright Indian students in Ivy League universities, you have the word “Pandit
The Slumdog chases the pink ball February 28, 2021, 6:44 PM IST
Anoop Kohli is a senior consultant neurologist at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi. His interests go far beyond his chosen profession. For him, it s just one game of life so interesting to study for all its themes and aberrations. He also dabbles in script-writing and recently got a membership of the Bombay Film Writers Association. In this blog, Masquerader, expect from him anything from H1N1 to Heena. LESS. MORE
Oh, what a match it was. Inaugural, on supposedly the world’s largest cricket ground, and with a pink ball! All over in two days. The common man who must have booked for five days of entertainment and a win, was patriotically sure of the win, but not a two-day wrap-up! There must be disappointment on the sponsors, hoarders, channels, and a much larger televised viewership. Batsmen must be depressed in losing their innings to the ball hitting the stumps, or what is somewhat si
Travails of the trivial
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Anoop Kohli is a senior consultant neurologist at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi. His interests go far beyond his chosen profession. For him, it s just one game of life so interesting to study for all its themes and aberrations. He also dabbles in script-writing and recently got a membership of the Bombay Film Writers Association. In this blog, Masquerader, expect from him anything from H1N1 to Heena. LESS. MORE
Blame it on the Covid self- ostracization. Blame it on the communicating blabber mouth through multiple inn ovately designed masks that pull your ears if you try to stretch your jaw beyond a certain angle. Don’t forget the misdirected sounds if the ears are pulled in a particular incongruent direction. Pay heed to the irritating moments of constraint of wiping your eye even before the cleanser is dry after your last hand wash. Blame the damn times!
Budget: Mine, everyone’s or partly others’ February 14, 2021, 6:54 PM IST
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Anoop Kohli is a senior consultant neurologist at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi. His interests go far beyond his chosen profession. For him, it s just one game of life so interesting to study for all its themes and aberrations. He also dabbles in script-writing and recently got a membership of the Bombay Film Writers Association. In this blog, Masquerader, expect from him anything from H1N1 to Heena. LESS. MORE
To have an annual budget, without knee-jerk, even thoughtful criticism, takes away the spice of Democracy. In India it is a ritual.