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2012 in Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.Here’s an excerpt:19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
#TheekHai: The King’s Speech. NOT!
Merry Christmas, dear readers. Unfortunately, this season of festivities, which has turned secular in India and is celebrated by Christians and non-Christians... Read more
Posted on 25 December 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
A Lexicon for Public Health Students: The Design Effect
Reblogged from my previous post on the Community Medicine Education Blog, as a part of the new series where I go about de-mystifying stuff that confuses…... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Social Peer Review: The IJMI Breaks New Ground
With an innovative move to have open peer review of submissions to the IJMI on the G+ community (closed and available only to the members of the group, who are... Read more
Posted on 14 December 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
A Lexicon for Public Health Students: Hobson’s Choice
This is a new series of posts in which I intend to de-mystify some concepts that are largely confusing (to me) and try to come up with some simple,... Read more
Posted on 10 December 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Google Kills Free Google Apps: I Am Worried!
In an announcement in the Official Google Enterprise Blog, it was revealed that the Google Apps free version is no no longer available. While I always thought... Read more
Posted on 07 December 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Social Exclusion and Inclusion: A Primer
This was a write-up I did for an assignment as part of my Residency training. We have such “informally formal” assignments which are assigned to us in course... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Brown Bag Sessions: Food for Thought
We have been contemplating the concept of having a Brown Bag session once in two weeks in our department for quite a while now, and we set the ball rolling toda... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
World AIDS Day: Getting to Zero
A couple of days ago, I had a moment of great joy in the clinic we work in the community health center when a person came up to me and unhesitatingly asked for ... Read more
Posted on 01 December 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
PeerJ Calls for Papers: Disruptive Innovation in Open Access
I have been very excited about PeerJ ever since Peter Binfield took up the challenge of bringing down the costs of publication in an online, open access... Read more
Posted on 28 November 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
World Toilet Day: Give A Shit
Happy World Toilet day. As a dear friend reminded me today, it is the day the World Toilet Organization has earmarked for spreading awareness about the lack of... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Talking to the Streets for Health: Street Theater as a Public Health Tool
Prior to coming to Delhi, I did not have much exposure to the power of the theater as a mode of dissemination of public health messages. It does sound strange... Read more
Posted on 12 November 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Banning Gutkha: Paternalism in Public Health Or Pro-Active Advocacy?
Posted on 11 November 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Literature Search Workshop at UCMS: Extra-Curricular Academics at the MEU
The Medical Education Unit at the University College of Medical Sciences, where I am now doing my residency, is a small, but super-active group of people, and... Read more
Posted on 04 November 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Communicating Correctly: A Community Based Communication Exercise
The sixth age shiftsInto the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wideFor his shrun... Read more
Posted on 22 October 2012 COMMUNITY, LIFE COACH -
Deoghar Diaries: Panchami and Shasthi
Our family has an annual ritual – during the Durga Pujas, the whole family comes down to Deoghar, a “pilgrims’ city” in the state of Jharkhand – to escape from... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
William Gosset: A True Student
Today I attended a Basic Epidemiology class meant for the undergraduate students as I thought it would be good to brush up on my basic knowledge. Read more
Posted on 21 September 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
eThesis: A Continuous Narrative Experience
Our thesis protocols were submitted today and most of us had a bit of running around in circles to do before the closing bells chimed at 1 PM. Read more
Posted on 15 September 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Side Effect of Narela: Missing PoTF and Friends
It is 2 AM in the morning, and I cannot go to sleep. As one PoTF favorite after another rolls off my laptop, I feel an myself retreating into a cocoon of misery. Read more
Posted on 29 August 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MUSIC -
Facebooking Your Faculty: To Be Or Not to Be?
Few emerging technologies have taken by storm the world as much as Facebook has. Although a plummeting share price has theoretically halved Mark Zuckerberg’s... Read more
Posted on 26 August 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE