Swine Flu Information

Below is a chat of symptoms of Swine Flu and in the table are addresses and phone numbers of government authorized hospitals for testing and treatment. City Hospital Address Contact Chennai King Institute of Preventive Medicine (24/7 Service) Guindy, Chennai – 32 (044) 22501520, 22501521 & 22501522 Communicable Diseases Hospital Thondiarpet, Chennai (044) 25912686/87/88, 9444459543 [...]

Eating Vegetables and Fruits for Health

Got this as a chain mail from a friend… one of the rare ones which i thought was worth publishing. A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye… And YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the [...]

Sachin Started Milking… Sach!

What do Airtel, Pepsi, Canon, Aviva have in common? Sachin Tendulkar, who has been the brand ambassador to all of them. Now Sachin has tied up with the Future Group to launch his own brand of Milk! By selling milk Sachin will capture the best market segment there can be… Kids! This latest venture will [...]

A Village Called Vasant Kunj

About 2 years back i wrote an article of how Vasant Kunj was a dump of garbage… looks like much as nothing much since then. Excerpt taken from HT epaper Residents of the posh Vasant Kunj area in south Delhi have stopped drawing water from taps. The reason: Cow dung from a local dairy is [...]

How To Beat Dehydration This Summer

What is Dehydration? Simply put, dehydration is a condition which arises when there is not enough water in the body to enable it to function properly. Remember it only takes a loss of 1% – 2% of your body’s ideal water content to cause dehydration. How to Prevent Dehydration? 1. Drink 8 to 10 glasses [...]

How a Beer got me High… on fever!

It’s been a couple days since I have written anything; the reason is that I have not been keeping well since Friday. After having a chilled beer with friends, my throat went for a toss and I have been running high fever since then. Thanks to my sensitive throat, I need to be very careful [...]

How Much is Your Life Worth?

With people dying in road mishaps every single day and the compensation to most of them is nothing more than Rs. 50,000 one tends to think what the price tag on him or her would be. The funny part is that you don’t get to decide what your life is worth, it is left in [...]

Smoking is Injurious to Health

Got an invitation to join a “I don’t smoke. There are cooler ways to die.” by a friend on facebook. Since i am against smoking, i joined the group as well… saw some gruesome photographs posted on the group… including this one which i have put here. If you are on face book, i would [...]

Dignity of Labour?

Over time we have started taking some thing for granted but it is photographs like this which brings us back to the harsh reality. Don’t cribb, next time when the A.C is not working properly in your office.

Rat + Beer = Patna Police Enquiry

I fond this funny article in the Times of India (Online Edition). Looks like the rats are doing the same things as any politician in Bihar… attacking people in open and nibbling on higher officials tows (photograph on the left is not the actual one, but i am sure it is something close to it). [...]