Mincing Words - Not !!

Hello Everyone! Today was Day 2 of the lockdown. I hope most of you are still negative for COVID-19 and are enjoying at your homes.  My day started pretty normally and for a change, it started earlier than usual. Got a call from home enquiring about my health and checking if I was taking proper precautions to fight this menace. Immediately after breakfast, I came across a piece of very sad news - In Delhi, people are evicting all the doctors who are working directly or indirectly with patients of COVID-19. I guess the praise for some of them yesterday was premature. Today in the world when doctors are the most respected professionals as they are risking their lives and are working day/night for the welfare of their patients, there are those who think that it would be the right time to screw them as they are at a risk for developing COVID-19 from them. I would like to say that it's not just selfish but also a new level of cruelty our society has reached. Having said that I wou...

Walking down the path towards my canteen in the research centre, cursing my teachers as well as my seniors for doing something wrong (or maybe right) with me. Thinking about how I had to regain my health and to be fit again. Preoccupied with many thoughts. Many scenarios for evening duty playing in my mind. Many facets of it which made me think constantly that how I had reached where I was. Thinking deeply about some of them and superficially about others (making a mental note to deal with them later). Thinking about how my life would have been different if I was born in a different country or with different ambitions I was stopped by That Old Lady.                                                                                               ...