Storytellers

A divine encounter Vijay Gopichandran Hello dear reader! I met a very interesting person yesterday at the temple. I am going to write about meeting and interacting with this gentleman. We spent just about 30 minutes in conversation, but I left feeling lighthearted. I couldn’t sleep for a long-time last evening, immersed in thoughts of what he said. And when I woke up this morning, I felt an intense sense of withdrawal of the positive energy that the gentleman had given me yesterday. He urged me to keep writing and gave me several tips on it. I thought, I should begin this new writing spell writing about him and the influence our brief conversation had on my thought. My friend goes to this ancient Yoga Narasimhar temple near her house, which is almost 1200 years old and has several interesting mythological connections. She is an integral part of the micro-ecosystem of the temple. Everyone knows her right from the flower vendor outside the temple to the chief priest at th...

So much to learn each day Vijay Gopichandran Hello my dear readers! It has been a long time since I wrote this blog. I was on a break doing a different kind of writing and taking some courses on how to write better. If you notice something different in my writing and find it good, then the credit goes to my teachers in the writing course. However, if you find my writing has gone from decent to horrible, I take full responsibility for it! There is so much to write about. I decided I will stick to the events of my clinic. I went to clinic today alone, no colleague, no students, like old days before 2016! Two interesting events took place and they have me thinking a lot about myself as a person and my profession as a doctor. “Sir, a man has come to the clinic with massive bleeding from his right hand. Shall I bring him inside?” asked our laboratory technician who was doubling up as a crowd controller in the overcrowded OPD today. I was seeing another elderly lady with diabetes...