Blogs & Articles By Me

I am writing this shortly after watching history being made at Roland Garros. For me, along with my tennis-playing son, both of us excited beyond belief at being at this mecca of tennis excellence, it was the experience of a lifetime. Rafael Nadal won the French Open tournament a record eighth time and has written […]

Arriving in Botswana I must admit I did not know too much about the country. Seeing the name of the airport did however strike a chord. HE Seretse Khama was a well known African leader when I was a boy. I learned from my host, who received me at the airport that because of a

The 2013 DICOM International conference and symposium was recently held in Bangalore (for the first time ever in our fair city). As a member of the organizing committee, and the chair of Clinical Day 3, it was a very rewarding experience for me to interact with the other committee members and delegates and learn about

The past week was a very rewarding one for me personally as we presented Ipads to our consultant radiologists as a token of our appreciation for all their hard work. This elicited some delighted responses, one of which I quote from below: “When I excitedly called my husband from office to say I received a

The drive back home from the Bangalore airport after a return flight is never much fun as it typically stretches well over an hour, in good traffic, that is. The last time though, on my return from Singapore, it flew by, because of an interesting conversation I had with my neighbour, who coincidentally happened to

I just got back from a short trip to Indonesia – where I learnt many interesting things. The most interesting learning for me was that Indonesia has 250 radiologists for its population of 250 million – radiologists are literally therefore one in a million! There are many other parallels with India. Of course geographically both

Sitting in the Bangalore BIO (now called India BIO) conference, a lot of interesting information is diffusing through the room. Some of the terms/facts I learnt during the day I spent there : The Indian biotech industry went from 300 million dollars to 7 billion dollars in size over 10 years. Scotland is the land

Today is World Cancer Day – my thoughts are colored by a sobering email I recently received informing me and the other members of my medical school class that one of our classmates has been diagnosed with an advanced malignancy and is battling for her life. For someone in their 40’s this is indescribable, and

We recently signed an MOU with the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences for collaborating with them to train postgraduates. A lot (!) of effort happened and time passed before this landmark event occurred. Some would ask (and have asked in the past) – why bother? Why not just do the reads and

IRIA 2013 our national conference, was held last week. The conference was held this time in Indore, my first visit to that city. The venue was the picturesque Daly college, whose main building looks more like a palace than a college. The Indore weather was perfect during the day, crisp and sunny, like November in