Mincing Words - Not !!

Hello Everyone! I hope you all are doing good at your home in this deadly pandemic which has engulfed the normal way (as it used to be) of living life. The stimulus to write this piece came from a long-standing feeling that I have had for people who surround me and behave in a weird way. Most of the things which I write today might not be politically correct, so, consider this as a DISCLAIMER for the same. You can also choose not to read further as one of the situations which I describe might be what you have been in and rationalised it, but, I must say that 99% I won't feel the same.  So, to begin with, I would like to tell you the reason why I chose such an out of the place title - ' Pretending to be? '. This has been done to aptly describe a situation that I face on day to day basis i.e. people pretending to be something that they are not.  Either they are too sweet or too diplomatic to make sure that they are in someone's good books. This irritates me b...

 Hello to everyone! The stimulus to write this blog came from a long lingering feeling which I have like a chronic hiccup in me. Especially since I joined my postgraduation. Being born in the family of intellectuals I had the fortune of inheriting a good set of genes, will to work till the end of time and a huge amount of discipline or a sense of it being present. I am three decades old and have seen a lot of stuff. Obviously, some of you who read this are much more experienced and might have faced more difficult and tough times than me. Still, I would like to share this feeling with you, my dear reader.  Since the last 15 years, I have seen most of my loved ones leaving this earth one by one. I have seen financial crunch forcing me to live with a few hundred rupees for months together. I have gone through a bad phase of worse habits a person can think of. I have seen my fortune take a positive turn on putting a lot of effort. I have faced criticism, racism, bias on the basis ...

Hello everyone!  So we have arrived at the end of the initial phase of lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus. Although I have enjoyed each and every entry in my journal describing how it has been for the past 21 days I think the last 72 hours have been phenomenal. I say this because for the past 72 hours I have not been on duty except tonight and still have enjoyed each and every second of it. I know it is difficult to believe that a person could enjoy in the time of pandemic but do not confuse my attempts to keep myself happy with the normal joyous atmosphere a person has in normal times. I got back to my habit of reading, jogging and listening to jazz. Listening to jazz has been an easy task as compared to before when I was doing my under graduation. Now, we have millions of songs at the touch of our fingers if we are a member of any of the streaming services. Few of the readers had also asked me the reason for citing two of most uncommon heroes of my life in the previo...

Hello everyone! I hope all of you are fine and following the rules of lockdown. Today is the 18th day and we are almost at the end of the initial lockdown period. Although there has been some news about the lockdown being extended in few of the states which are hotspots for the coming up cases still I feel that the government might allow a little restricted movement for economic purposes. The reason why lockdown was sought was to control the spread of this pandemic and avoid overburdening our health care system. The current figures represent that we have been a little successful in what we thought we could achieve from this lockdown but there are certain confounding factors like the lack of testing capacity in most of the states in our country. I hope it all goes according to the plan and with the increasing testing capacity, we are able to control this disease in all of the states like Kerala and Rajasthan. Today's blog is a little special for me as I will be discussing an ex...

Hello everyone! So I am back again with another blog but this time I am writing to you after 72 hours. I have taken 24 more hours to come back and talk just because there have been some problems which I have faced in the duties which we have in Corona Clinic. So, I will straight away get to the point that for the past 72 hours I have been pretty busy as in the first 24 hours I was posted from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on regular duty hours in my department. The next 24 hours saw me doing my first duty in the screening clinic in which I am supposed to sit wearing personal protective equipment and swab all the patients which come as suspected cases. Before, when I was in touch and described that we underwent a lot of training still when I reached the clinic yesterday I found out that there were many discrepancies in the training which the staff posted there had been getting.  When I reached there yesterday I observed that there was no coordination between our department and the d...

Hello everyone! I hope all of you are fine and are trying to cope up with the stress of the lockdown. It's already 6th of this month and its 9 more days until this lockdown. The past 48 hours have been a little surprising for me as I have been able to enjoy my time in the lockdown. It all started with my last blog for which I got quite a few positive responses. Some of my readers actually loved my idea of avoiding social media for a few days and told me that they would implement the same. Apart from that great news I also have gone through a change of environment from my monotonous schedule of the lockdown. First, I have been able to cope up with my studies as a final year student should. When you have a habit of reading, learning and working throughout your life and suddenly your daily schedule is disturbed it makes you a little mad. I think the same phenomenon was happening to me to which I confused with chaos in my mind. Maybe it was no confusion or chaos but the feeling of...