Author: akshay
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Internet Will Become Dramatically Useless in the Near Future, Unless What is Said in This Happens
Allow me to introduce you to “net neutrality” if you haven’t heard of it yet. Hindu had an editorial about why it is important yesterday. Net Neutrality is the concept that all data traffic on the Internet should be considered equal. There shall be no discrimination. So, say, if you pay for 1MBps Internet, your…
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Free and Open-Source Software
Imagine you discovered how to make a delicious cake. You are the only person in the world who knows how to make it. It is so tasty that you could make a fortune selling it. What would you do? If the first thought that came to your mind is to start a bakery and make…
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Cochlear Herniation of Brain
Today is a holiday. Tomorrow Kreida'15 starts. The batch organizing it seems to be enthusiastic enough to write 2k12 on every T-shirt, even that of people from other batches. Sobotta atlas of anatomy is a brilliant textbook for anatomy. I had discovered it under the caption of an image in Gray's anatomy. Used that to…
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Bharat Ratna Dr APJ Abdul Kalam
On account of graduation day of 2k9 batch, the former president is speaking inside PJA right now. “What can I give?” seems to be the message. More on his website.
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When There’s Nothing Left to Say
One of the many things I like in life is talking. I like to discuss things, dissecting events and analyzing situations. It gives me some kind of strange pleasure when there’s clarity in my mind on every way to think about an issue. Say, there is a forward on the IM client that is obviously…
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Something I was waiting for
Today the third year result was announced. As expected I failed in ophthalmology. Also otorhinolaryngology. But contrary to what I’ve been thinking about how it’d feel, I’m having an odd sensation of freedom. Now this is not a rationalization of the situation. But I’m feeling this way because I no longer have the pressure of…
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Neuroscience
Of late my likeness for neuroscience has resurfaced. Could be because of the urgency in deciding what to do after MBBS. Anyhow, I've been having email conversations with people in IISc Bangalore and I'll be visiting the place in April. Got loads to prepare by then. Found a nice set of courses in brain and…
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Final Year
OBG posting ended with an internal on 2nd March. We were supposed to do partograms. Skin posting started the day after. But the cubicles are filled with so many of us
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Being Feminist
Each day passing, I am turning more and more a feminist. Although I abhor extremism in feminism (I do not think calling every action of a man “sexist” is the right way to achieve gender equality), I cannot overstate the importance of visualizing the routine, systematized discrimination against women based on their gender alone. In…
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How many hours of sleep do you actually need?
OBG OPD on Thursday. Suddenly those people whom nobody wanted are doing per speculum examination. Ah, that’s what final year fetches you. Luckily, we removed a copper T, saw androgen insensitivity syndrome, pubertal menorrhagia, etc. After days of procrastinating, had to spend a whole night on writing down MAA project report. Luckily my study isn’t…