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Nobel Peace Prize

Sunday, October 11, 2009 | Email This Post | | 2 views
(Journalism, Just like that!, Musings, Personal)

Surprising that

Nobel Peace prize 2009 is being given to a person who made so many

hatred speeches

in this year itself.

This puts question mark on very existence and purpose of Nobel Peace Prize itself.

 

No wonder why Mahatama Gandhi never took this prize despite being nominated for five times in row.

  

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Apex court orders Rs.10 mn compensation for medical negligence

Saturday, May 16, 2009 | Email This Post | | 115 views
(India, Infy, Journalism, Places)

A friend shared this link about recent news with title – India Awakening. This is the story about a victim of surgical mistake and how he fought all this way to get the appropriate claim.

 

Here are excerpt from true and motivating story -

 

Apex court orders Rs.10 mn compensation for medical negligence

 

Nearly two decades after Bangalore-based Infosys engineer Prashanth S. Dhananka became paralysed waist down after a botched surgery, the Supreme Court ordered the Nizam Medical Institute of Hyderabad to pay him a record compensation of Rs.10 million, while praising him for fighting the case himself though confined to a wheelchair.

 

Ordering the compensation for medical negligence to Dhananka, a bench of Justice B.N. Agrawal also asked the apex court’s registry to send the verdict to the victim through registered post at his address in Bangalore.

 

The bench also recorded its ‘deep appreciation’ of Dhananka for his having argued the entire case on medical concepts himself in the apex court with the deftness of a lawyer.

 

Justifying the payment of the compensation, the court said, the sum is justified ‘keeping in mind that a brilliant career has been cut short and there is, as of now, no possibility of improvement of his physical conditions’.

 

Dhananka, son of a Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL) employee, was admitted to the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences in September 1990 after complaints of unexplained intermittent fever. Doctors from BHEL hospital referred him to the Hyderabad hospital for ‘further’ tests, which showed a large tumour in his left chest cavity. After an X-ray and a CT scan confirmed this, he was asked to undergo a biopsy.

 

Though the tumour was found to be benign, doctors decided to remove it fearing that it might later exert pressure on his respiratory, cardio-vascular and neurological systems. The doctors feared it could also later turn malignant.

 

A team led by a cardio-thoracic surgeon removed the tumour. In the process, a part of his ribs had to be cut. After the surgery, Dhananka, developed paralysis of the lower portion of the body, including legs.

 

No allegation of medical negligence was made then. But, six months later, Dhananka’s father wrote a letter to the institute in 1991, alleging negligence.

 

In 1993, Dhananka moved the NCDRC seeking damages of about Rs.50 million. The commission held the doctors negligent and directed the institute to pay Rs.1.4 million to him and Rs.150,000 to his father.

 

The institute moved the apex court challenging the NCDRC finding that it was guilty of negligence.

 

It contended that it had not associated a neuro-surgeon in the surgery from the beginning and had not exchanged any opinion with sister institutes in India and abroad.

 

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I Voted

Saturday, May 16, 2009 | Email This Post | | 111 views
(2009, India, Journalism, Occasions, Personal, Places, Punjab)

Being a responsible citizen, I voted and was happy to know that average voting in Punjab (65%) was quite higher than most of the states in country.

 

voting 2009 

 

I believe it as one of the reasons that why Punjab is that ahead of those many states in terms of economy and growth – because people here are more aware and concerned about their rights/duties while states like Bihar (40%) keep asking for special status from centre government so that they can do some growth.

  

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Cast Your Vote

Monday, May 11, 2009 | Email This Post | | 103 views
(2009, India, Journalism, Nationalist, Occasions, Personal, Places)

Third round of Parliament Elections in India is about to happen next week and I just wanted to post this request on my blog -

 

Please cast your vote

 

After lot of advertisements shown in media and still going on, nation-wide campaigns started by bodies like Tata Industries and Times Of India, I feel quite small to make this request but after reading about just around 50% voting in metro cities like Mumbai and capital Delhi, I feel that perhaps my words might make some difference.

 

I have been driving everyone in my contact to cast their vote. It is once in five years when you get a chance to correct your mistake and to find what wrong went in the government you voted for, if you give your vote. Otherwise you loose your right to find wrongs in government if you don’t vote at all.

That’s what I believe.

Feels good that if not everyone, some got driven. I am going to my hometown to give my vote on this Wednesday.

 

In the end, I would request you to please go through this link to find more wisdom on whom to vote

 

PS: Little disappointment does occur when you know that even in politics, reservation is introduced from back-door and there are seats where candidates only from reserve castes can fight elections but that shouldn’t stop you from thinking about the big picture.

  

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Worst American President

Monday, May 11, 2009 | Email This Post | | 118 views
(2009, Bangalore, Journalism, Nationalist, Occasions, Places, Politics, Truly Indian, USA)

Barak Obama happens to be worst president in history of America, as per my views. A president who took oath to stop wars started by previous government, a president who wanted to make this world the best planet to live at, a president who wanted America to rise from ashes by stopping the Economy Crisis.

 

What we didn’t know was that this president wanted to stop war being fought physically by American soldiers but  wouldn’t hesitate from starting virtual wars which might destroy other countries, that this president imagined America as planet ignoring rest of the world, that this president didn’t want to stop but shift the Economy Crisis to other countries.

 

Obama has been giving hate speeches before he became new American President. He has started hate war “on papers” as an irresponsible president, against India and other countries where American companies outsourced their business.

Being an Indian, I was hurt by those hate speeches and wanted to post my grievance and protest here at my place. Not sure how many people enjoy those words of this man but for me he is the worst president that I have witnessed in my lifetime .

 

Here is the record of hate speeches delivered by US President Barack Obama with the timelines published in Times Business on May 06, 2009 –

It’s a tax code that says you should pay lower taxes if you create a job in Bangalore, India, than if you create one in Buffalo, New York — Obama, announcing a crackdown on tax loopholes on Monday

 

I understand that the challenges facing our economy have forced children in Raleigh and Boston to compete for those jobs with children in Bangalore and Beijing — Obama at a speech in North Carolina in June 2008

 

At a time when a child in Boston must compete with children in Beijing and B’lore, we need an army of you to become teachers and principals in schools that this nation cannot afford to give up on —Obama at a college commencement address in Connecticut in May 2008

 

This is the president giving birth to new hate terms like Bangalored and Obamination.

  

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