Author: Dev Desai

Budding Medico @AIIMS. Avid newspaper reader (follow politics keenly; NaMo fan), foodie and an enthusiastic dabbler in the magical 'World of Words!'

COVID19 PANDEMIC- LIMITATIONS OF 20TH CENTURY SOLUTIONS FOR A 21ST CENTURY PROBLEM

April 3, 2020

The above given cartoon by Satish Acharya has been shared a lot many times of late. While it wants to make a more specific point about the relative underfunding of healthcare when compared to the defence forces, I believe this aspect is only a symptom of a broader malaise which has been uncovered by the […]

VIOLENCE AGAINST MEDICOS- GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE MENACE

June 22, 2019

As I write, an all India cessation of non-emergency services by doctors (residents to be specific) tomorrow is in the works and protests of some sort or the other have been ongoing from the past few days. The trigger for this outpouring of anger and frustration by the medical fraternity, was a depressed skull fracture […]

DELHI- IT’S TIME TO TAKE A CALL, VOTE ONE, VOTE ALL

May 5, 2019

While all 52 Sundays of a year are special, the next one, May 12, is much more so for Delhiites. It is the day when Delhi gets to decide who are the chosen 7, whom it sends to legislate on its behalf to the Loksabha. For those of you who are not in the know- […]

NMO HEALTH THINK TANK

April 3, 2019

From Brain Storming to Nation Transforming National Medicos Organisation (NMO) has always believed that action and service on the ground speak louder than words. So, when 43 chosen delegates and speakers from all over the nation received invites to participate in the first ever ‘Health Think Tank’ to be held at Deen Dayal Shodh Sansthan, […]

OPERATION JOHAR- A LOVE STORY

February 26, 2019

From the past six months or so I have been a regular reader of the blog ‘DYNASTYCROOKS’. It has terrific insight and analysis of politics and other issues of national interest and many a time a refreshingly different take on affairs. Who wrote it used to be a mystery at the time I started reading […]

TROTTING THOUGHTS- VISIT TO STATUE OF UNITY

January 31, 2019

Amidst the hustle and bustle of preparing for the impending final MBBS exams, one thing to look forward to was the short break between the end of exams and beginning of internship. After much brainstorming, my cousins’ family and ours, had zeroed onto the Rannutsav as the destination for a short trip during that break. […]

‘THE EMERGENCY: A PERSONAL HISTORY’

November 25, 2018

After writing a sarcastic take on those whose refrain these days is ‘India is under the thumb of fascist forces’, I wished to know more about the time India had its only brush with fascism, authoritarianism and dictatorship, the dark days of Indian democracy- Emergency. Once I was done with the Pre-Professional exams, I picked […]

हेरिसन मेडिसिन पुस्तक हिंदी में, शक्य है?

October 31, 2018

(मेरा मूल लेख गुजराती में था, यह इसका हिंदी अनुवाद है. चिक्तिसा शास्त्र से तालुक न रखने वाले वाचकों की जानकारी हेतु- ‘हेरिसन मेडिसिन’ चिकत्सा-शाश्त्र की एक विश्व-विख्यात पाठ्यपुस्तक है, जिसको ‘चिकत्सा-शास्त्र की बाइबल’ की उपाधि भी प्राप्त है.) कल्पना कीजिए, ‘चिकित्सकों की बाइबल’, ‘हेरिसन मेडिसिन’, बजाय बाइबल के, महाभारत हो गई है, अर्थात, […]

व्यथित आत्माओं का सन्देश

September 6, 2018

प्यारे भारतीयों, आप ये पत्र पाकर चौंक गए होंगे और शायद सोच रहे होंगे कि ये ‘व्यथित आत्माएं’ हैं कौन? हम उन लोगों की आत्माएं हैं, जिन्होंने फासीवादी और तानाशाह शासकों के अत्याचार सहे हैं, चाहे वे जर्मनी में हिटलर हो, या आपके अपने देश में आपातकाल हो. हाल ही में घटी कुछ घटनाओं ने […]

RAJA SHIVCHATRAPATI AITIHASIK GAURAV GATHA

April 11, 2018

As the orange hues of the setting sun gave way to darkening dusk, the centuries old walls of the Red Fort in Delhi were to bear witness to a spectacle on a scale yet unparalleled and in audience were hundreds of people gathered from in and around Delhi waiting with eager anticipation for the grand […]

जब ‘छात्रों के मित्र’ मोदी ने ‘नेता’ मोदी को उत्तम अंकों से उत्तीर्ण कराया

February 25, 2018

16 फरवरी, 2018, दिन शुक्रवार, भारत के इतिहास में एक अद्वितीय घटना घटी जब तालकटोरा सभागार दिल्ली में बैठे हजारों विद्यार्थियों से तथा भारत के विभिन्न भागों में टी.वी. और रेडियो के माध्यम से जुड़े हुए लाखों विद्यार्थियों से उनके प्रधानमंत्री सन्मुख हुए. विषय था- परीक्षा के तनाव पर विजय पाने के तरीके. इस विषय […]

The Greatest Ruler World has ever seen

November 18, 2017

The title might deceive one into thinking that this article is a eulogy to Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great or some other world conquering ruler. But no, this article is about someone who all though never directly ruled a square inch of land, ruled and has been ruling for the past 175 years, the collective […]