I am a doctor, sometimes, that is my shame. Dear fellow professional: Did someone ever teach you how to ask someone their sexual history? Did you get any systematic training in handling sensitive issues? Do you know if you sound judgemental while posing a question to a patient? Do you know there are professional and standard methods in approaching sensitive issues? Can you put a patient at ease when talking about their substance abuse issues? [...]
Dear Doctor, Why Do You Care How Many People I Sleep With?
Dear Doctor, Why Do You Care How Many People I Sleep With?
Ignorance, Drunkenness or Racism?
Ignorance, Drunkenness or Racism?
At the pub yesterday: I am nursing my glass of Belgian beer, Latin rap (yes, it exists) is playing in the background. Caucasian male sitting next to me, to the bar tender: “Whats this music? its kind of offensive, don’t you have The Rolling Stones or something?” Bartender: “I’m sorry but the theme for today is Latin, so I can’t change it” Caucasian Male: “Hey, I’m Latino, in fact, (points at me) I am more Latino than this [...]
P Sainath delivers The Inaugural Maharaj Kaul Memorial Lecture at UC Berkeley
P Sainath delivers The Inaugural Maharaj Kaul Memorial Lecture at UC Berkeley
Pay-to-print”: How Media Corruption Undermines Indian Democracy Was the title of P Sainath’s illuminating speech about the dangerous undermining of the 4th estate of india by corrupt practices. Maharaj Kaul (1940 – 2009), a UC Berkeley alum, was a tireless campaigner against injustice and for peace, founder of groups such as India Relief and Education Fund, and Coalition Against Communalism, and long-time supporter of Center for South Asia Studies (CSAS) at the University of [...]
Childhood sexual abuse awareness month- april 2011
Childhood sexual abuse awareness month- april 2011
A bunch of concerned bloggers are spreading awareness about various aspects of Childhood sexual abuse using blogs and twitter. I am really happy to see so much concern, as well as the positive response they are getting. click on the image above to find out more, and follow them on twitter because they are tweeting fantastic info about how to deal with/identify/talk to your kids about sexual abuse. follow CSAawareness on twitter. From their site. [...]
Concluding remarks- Hitler’s faith
Concluding remarks- Hitler’s faith
This is the second part and conclusion of Hitler’s faith and the church, you can read part one here.[click] Darwin’s theories were new, radical and changed the world and shifted many an equation. They resulted in new thinking, great advances in science and towards a greatly improved understanding of the world. They also lead to people using these ideas to throw off some of moral and ethical restrictions placed by the religious epistemology of those [...]
Hitler’s Faith and the Church’s Contribution to Nazi Rule
Hitler’s Faith and the Church’s Contribution to Nazi Rule
This is a two part article/essay examining the role Christian institutions and Hitler’s personal faith played in the various events that lead to the Holocaust
The Parable of dead bodies: Looking at the Food Security Bill
The Parable of dead bodies: Looking at the Food Security Bill
The Parable When the villagers of Utopia woke up that morning, they found that the current had washed up a dozen or so dead bodies on their river bank. The people quickly got to action, as was normal for Utopians. Frogmen helped by the fire department dragged the bodies ashore, the mayor decided they would be cremated outside the city, the Doctor examined them and concluded that they died of nothing contagious and the priest [...]
Accidental Eveteasing and Other Mythical Beasts
Accidental Eveteasing and Other Mythical Beasts
This post is in reply to the letter “Locutus83″ Sent to Blank Noise [Click here to Read it] asking some very honest and fundamental questions. I loved his honesty, openness and willingness to be wrong. This is also, partially, in response to the general riff raff and chit chat I have come across on various sites related to eve-teasing and street sexual harassment. And as Locust asks, have included a “guide to being a gentleman” [...]
Images of the Original Constitution of India
Images of the Original Constitution of India
Images are from a scanned copy of the Photolithographic reproduction of the original constitution of India. Courtesey World digital Library Description This book is one of 1,000 photolithographic reproductions of the Constitution of the Republic of India, which came into effect on January 26, 1950, after being approved by the Constituent Assembly on November 26, 1949. The original of this elaborate edition took nearly five years to produce. It is signed by the framers of [...]
26th January 2011: India’s 62nd Republic Day
26th January 2011: India’s 62nd Republic Day
The (Indian) Republic is governed in terms of the Constitution of India which was adopted by the Constituent Assembly on 26th November 1949 and came into force on 26th January 1950. A republic is a state under a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, retain supreme control over the government. Take a moment to read some of the best about Republic day and what it means Are we [...]
