Category Archives: Humanity
Terror Attacks and Indian News Channels
The whole nation was shell-shocked when Sanjay Shukla, a 46-year-old unemployed writer, forgot that it is 26th Nov’, the day Mumbai terror attacks happened. This… despite the fact that all the news channels of India were relentlessly trying to remind everyone that Mumbai was attacked and hundreds of innocent people were killed exactly a year […]
Death of a Patient or Death of Ethics???
What happens when a patient dies in a Private Hospital? A news channel that is at the bottom of the TRP (Television Rating Point) breaks this news in bold and screaming letters with a menacing background score – ‘Hospital’s or Doctors’ Negligence claims a patient’s life!’ Caught off-guard, another news channel, eying the next week’s TAM (Television Audience Measurement) ratings, joins the melee with a […]
Open Letter to a Doctor: Dear Doctor, I am More Than a Disease
Dear Doctor, I am your patient. I am more than a disease, a number or a problem. I have a name. I may be 150000th patient to you. But you are the only ONE to me. I also have feelings, intelligence, passions and dreams for my life ahead. Like lakhs of people out there, I depend […]