Category: Opinion

This week I attended a session on quality improvement in healthcare practice. The definition of quality is subjective. What may appear to be “high-quality” to me, may not stand up to external scrutiny. There could always be room for improvement. But this is not a big problem. Some level of objectivity can be attained in…

I've now spent more than an year using the public transport in Bangalore and made the best investment only this month. That is the BMTC bus pass. Previously my commute was fully reliant on metro, but recently I joined MetaString foundation where I have to take the road to reach. There is a direct airport…

You could call it an autobiography of Edward Snowden or you could call it a manifesto for democratic citizenship. You would be right either way. This book is a how-to guide for becoming a hacker (in the realest sense of the word), a good parent, and a good lover.   A fair bit of caution…

This is partly a response to “All That Glitters” by an IITian and partly a message to my brother who is an IITian. Although I used to sit mostly on the back bench during school, I fit the first bencher stereotype more – good scores, liked by teachers, great expectations. I currently have a career…

Arya asked me from Germany, “How did you start with programming? Maybe write a blog about it? Your learning strategies”. To those of you who know me as a doctor, I’m a professional programmer who can work on any part of the stack (and even off the stack), and a free software advocate. To those…

I’ve been traveling extensively in and around central Bangalore for the past 6+ months. I have experimented with various modes of transport and various tools that assist finding the right transport in these journeys. Today when I met Nishan on his first day of a new life in Bangalore, I realized I have been traveling…

Yesterday Swathi and I visited Anivar and Joshina and their kids. It has been at least 5 months since we started planning this visit. And we finally made time for it, yesterday. The moment we stepped inside Noonu and Ilan were on us – showing their toys, making us read story books, laughing at jokes,…

Human beings have an in-built sense of “morality” that they routinely apply against everything that they come across. There are multiple ways one’s sense of what is moral and what is immoral emerges – including religion, upbringing, exposure, rationality, mental health, and so on. Is morality necessary? Morality is necessary. Not just because it allows…

Four months, quintals of biriyani, and almost fainting inside the metro day before yesterday because I darted to catch it and came to a standstill immediately. It took me these to realize that I should take care of my health even if Bangalore isn’t as enticing as Mysore to go for morning jogs. There is…

I am on Blogger since November 2007. It is 11 years this month. When I began, it was just me exploring the Internet. Everyone was making blogs back then. And I had to make one too. I made one. Then I made another, and then another. I have created some 36+ blog on blogger. I…