Tag: Health
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Catalogue of Shattered Dreams
When I was young I was designed to become a writer. Of course in those days we knew nothing about DNA but in the sunshine of my bright ideal I saw myself: Hunched over a typewriter, in a dim room with a high window of nicotine-stained glass, Chain-smoking myself into a coughing stupor, Careless […]
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The Swami on the Hill
This morning, as I prepared for a day filled with nothing in particular, I watched a nubile young person on the television demonstrating some torturous poses which she dubbed as ‘Yoga’. Later, in the shower, I started thinking back – always a mistake when you’ve so many years to think back upon. Bathrooms do that […]
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Behind the Screens
A little narrative: Recently, a young woman from Eastern Europe who lives in UK, rushed her heavily pregnant sister to hospital, Adhering to the letter of their Covid 19 regulations the hospital staff insisted the pregnant sister be separated from her sibling, who was seated on a chair in the ward corridor – a chair […]
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