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  1. A tenth-class fail on endosulfan

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    / April 29, 2011 / Leave a comment
      The first person I called after I got the news that India had agreed at Geneva to phase out endosulfan, was Sivanna. This farmer from rural Karnataka cheerfully approved of the Indian government’s decision.   “Let them ban it amma. They will be doing us some good.’’   I...

  2. Let’s act now on endosulfan

    Posted by Rima Kallingal
    / April 28, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Rima Kallingal This Monday, many of us in different cities and towns of Kerala sat on an one-day fast to focus attention on the suffering of thousands of farmers and farm labour due to spraying of endosulfan. In the past many years, four to five thousand people in Kerala,...

  3. Bharat to India, 100 km

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    / March 4, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir (This blog was posted by Uma Sudhir on her blogsite www.umasudhir.wordpress.com in September 2009. The blog has been edited to bring it up to date. But the subject matter of the blog is as relevant today as it was then) In the last week of August, I...

  4. Dhak Dhak Karne Laga

    Posted by Sheela Panicker
    / February 14, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Sheela Panicker   It is the Valentine Year moment, with so many heart balloons flying everywhere. From the hotels to gifts shops to coffee bars to pubs.   On Valentine’s day eve, I instead found my way to the Rock Art Gallery. It was a quiet Sunday morning but...
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  5. Dancing with life

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    / January 27, 2011 / 2 Comments
      By Uma Sudhir   “I tell you, there is a good reason for you to go and see this doctor. He is handsome and suave.” Ananda said this to me, giggling like a teenager. There was nothing flippant about her advice though. She was asking me to go for...

  6. Are you eating healthy?

    Posted by Prof Dr S Bakhtiar Choudhary
    / January 21, 2011 / Leave a comment
      Eating regularly is important. Breakfast by 8am, Lunch before 1pm and Dinner before 8:30pm. And in between have fruits and snacks. Cut down oil in cooking (don’t stop) and use groundnut + Soya bean oil in 70:30 ratio to get all essential fats for the body (for everyone). Don’t...

  7. Heavyduty alarm signals

    Posted by Prof Dr S Bakhtiar Choudhary
    / January 7, 2011 / Leave a comment
    In the last one decade, there has been a phenomenal increase in obesity among teenagers in Hyderabad. The study that my clinic, the Hyderabad Spine Clinics conducted, revealed a detrimental change among teenagers.   The observations noted between 1999-2009 showed abnormal increase in both peripheral and visceral obesity. The study...

  8. The Ramalinga Raju I knew

    Posted by Venkat Changavalli
    / January 4, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Venkat Changavalli   It was around 10 am on January 7, 2009 that I got a call from Ramalinga Raju. I was in a review meeting, paradoxically conducting a learning session on `How to manage in downturn situations’. Usually if I did not take the call, Raju would just...

  9. A bitter pill

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    / December 18, 2010 / Leave a comment
    The Kerala unit of the Indian Medical Association has issued a notice to Dr. K. V. Babu, an ophthalmologist of Kannur, to show cause why disciplinary action should not be taken against him for enlisting media support for his successful campaign against the organization’s endorsement of a commercial product. The...
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  10. From condemn to condom

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    / December 3, 2010 / 2 Comments
    By Uma Sudhir From condemn to condom. The Pope it would seem, has come a long way. For the first time, he has said using a condom is okay. Not just that, he has said it is in fact a first step in being moral and responsible, to reduce the...

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