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I Miss You

‘I Miss You’, three simple words. Short, sweet and yet, quite powerful. When I think of it, I cannot think of a single instance when someone told me these words and it didn’t make me feel special. I have often wondered how this line came into being, ‘I love you’ & ‘I hate you’ are more direct proclamations of our feelings, but ‘I miss you’-How did this line originate? Maybe it started when people actually ‘missed’ someone, as in the missed opportunity of meeting someone-like missing an appointment, or missing a train! Over the years a guess the sentimental area of our brain (wherever it is), realized that the physical presence of a person in our lives no matter how strong our memories of them maybe is very important to our sense of well being. When someone says ’I miss you’, it makes you feel important, doesn’t it? There was a time not so long ago when people would hesitate so much to say the words I love you that they would resort to writing poems, lett

Is Good Karma for real?

I first heard the word ‘ Karma’ when I was at school, I had a little friend who shared her desk with me called Vidya , she had this habit of hitting her forehead saying Karma every time she did something stupid, so, for a long time Karma to me was a word people used when they got angry or annoyed with themselves. A  little later, the same word got an entirely different meaning to me when I found it in the menu of a roadside restaurant, ‘ Vegetable Karma’ for only 25 Rs, everyone reading this knows what it was supposed to be. right? Vegetable Korma -sort of a fancy name for curry, but in my defense the restaurant owner wasn’t very good at English, in fact the menu of Chinese dishes at his place hasn’t changed for years.  It was only in the early 2000’s, courtesy a song by the Aussie band Savage garden called ‘ Affirmation’ that I understood what the word Karma really meant-‘What you give is what you get returned’. I didn’t pay much attention to it till I graduated from

The Office - A Farewell To My favorite TV show.

Imagine a show that is based entirely on the lives of a few employees working at an office that sells paper products in a small county, now stretch your imagination a little more and conjure up an image of the show running for nine years, visualize it getting nominated for over 150 major awards and conceptualize a scenario where you find yourself falling in love with every single character on the show so much so that you feel they are part of your real life- that’s ‘The Office’ 2 years ago when my brother first introduced me to ‘The Office’, I wasn’t familiar with the single camera setup of filming, I didn’t like the show, and episodes from 7 different seasons of the show lay quietly in my hard drive, like a treasure hidden right beneath where I stood. It was a time when shows from the genres of action and drama occupied most of my TV viewing schedule, The eccentric doctor in ‘House MD’, The convoluted plot twists of ‘Lost’ and the frustrating exoneration of an innocent man in ‘Priso

Broken Glasses & Broken Promises.

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The Victim, The Prepetrator(Dr.Monica) and the Problem Solver(Mahi) Every morning is the beginning of a brand new day, come to think of it- every new day is a chance to have a fresh start, sure you may have had a miserable time in all the days that went by, but every time the sun rises in the morning you have a chance to experience something different. However bleak the future may seem life’s unpredictability offers up hope, no matter how tiny it may be. Just think of it, it’s impossible to predict exactly what is going to go down each day, anything can happen. Imagine the prospect of meeting an old friend on the street or a surprise party waiting for you at work, maybe an email from a long lost relative, although these may seem insignificant when we consider the sheer size of bigger things like an earthquake or a tsunami they do have a major impact on our lives. On the flipside sometimes even bad things happen and it’s just impossible to predict the exact sequence o

Friends will be always be Friends.

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Trust me, we looked much better in the morning ! Dr Vasudha, me & Dr.Vinay. It is camp season at work, while last month I had to visit just one school nearby, this time around the hospital has organized 16 camps spread across different districts in the state of Karnataka. Bagepalli is a small town located at around 100 km to the north of Bangalore, I was not scheduled to visit this place today but then I had to oblige my colleagues who had valid reasons for not being able to make it, now I am not against conducting and attending medical camps, it’s just that I am not a big fan of waking up early in the morning, especially if it has rained the previous night. The small government protected forest area I drive through to get to the hospital was laden with the fragrance of freshly squeezed eucalyptus leaves but I had no time to pay any attention to it, I drove like a madman zipping past my fellow patrons on the road splashing water in all directions as I drove over la

The KFC Girl

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If Only I kept eyes open when it mattered most !!! KFC, Kentucky Fried Chicken the world’s second largest fast food restaurant chain in the world, the only place on earth I will eat food at without creating a fuss about the menu, I mean what fault can I find with a menu that has an option for a ‘bucket full’ of fried chicken in it? I love everything about the KFC outlets in India, the staff are usually in high spirits greeting me with an enthusiastic- Hey, how you doing sir? (Completely ignoring the person who just placed their order), they look so trim and fit almost making me feel like the food I’m about to eat is completely healthy, their patrons are unpretentious, the music is always good and everyone is basically having a good time. But perhaps the thing I like most about eating at KFC is that there is no pressure to stick to some elaborate eating etiquette with knives and forks and napkins, everyone just grabs their share of the chicken with their bare hands and bi