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I am a surgeon working in Lake shore Hospital in Kochi, a city in the state of Kerala at the southern tip of India. A stroke at the age of 39 left my left side considerably weakened, putting paid to my career as a surgeon. The scalpel, through which I communicated with the world, and expressed myself as an individual, being of no use to me since the stroke, I took to writing, as a means to express myself and to communicate with the world. this blog 'writerbychance' is part of my new-found passion.

Thanks to them, out of my stony griefs, Bethel I raised

Remembering two wonderful people, as the world observed the ‘International Day of the Elderly’ on October 1st

Women take NDA’s foreign policy to respectable heights

If there is one ministry that India under NDA governance can be proud of, it is the External Affairs Ministry. Recently, women, including External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj took Indian foreign policy to new, respectable and proud heights.

Is fuel the Robin Hood of the NDA government?

It verily looks like fuel is the robin hood of the central government. An instrument to rob the ‘rich’ to help the poor, as admitted to by one of its Union Ministers

From Marx to Mata Amrithananthamayi through St.Paul

With the dust over Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the ‘leader’ of the cult Dera Sacha Suda yet to die down, one wonders how significantly the numerous God-men, God-women, religion, atheism or political ideology influence ordinary mortals

We need to broaden our tunnel-visioned mindset

India, as a nation needs to move away from self-defeating tunnel-visioned functioning to a wider, more progressive one, where important and relevant issues are addressed.

Through death Gauri Lankesh exhorts for a second freedom struggle.

If the first freedom struggle had a foreign aggressor leave India, bestowing her freedom, the enemy within, seeking to throttle dissent, thought and opinion will seems poised to trigger the second one

Through Alphons Kannanthanam, the BJP-led NDA treads the Congress trail

The BIP-led NDA captained by Modi follows the trail of minority appeasement, the favorite political game of the Congress, much to India’s disillusionment

Is nonexistent ‘privacy’ worth standing up for?

The Supreme Court has stood up to the cause of citizens’ ‘privacy’. But, isn’t that commodity long dead and gone? With ‘privacy’ having given way to ‘rights’, and self advertisement being the ‘in-thing’?

To ‘white Ammachy’, the cow meant everything.

Remembering a good old bygone era when people ‘lived and let live’!

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