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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.

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’!

Is Ruling on triple talaq a precursor to UCC?

Is abolition of one of the worst Chauvinistic practices in India by the judiciary a forerunner to UCC, which is the need of the hour?

‘Blue Whale’ a new wrecker of society?

An online game threatens to rip apart society that is already struggling to retain sanity under a stack of numerous other odds

Murugan bursts the ‘Kerala model’ bubble

Death of a migrant laborer calls the bluff of the renowned ‘Kerala model of development’, exposing the chinks in its enviable armor

Gorakhpur has lots to answer to the nation

Yogi Adithyanath’s governing machinery has to look beyond Gaushalas, and realize there are more important issues to be addressed in one of the most underdeveloped states

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