This is the great tragic flaw in how we handle medical emergencies. The golden hour is wasted. People get a chest pain and they call their family doctor. Or they drag the patient to a small local clinic that doesn't have the equipment. What people don't realise is that in an emergency, you don't need advice. You need a large hospital.
At a function in Anand, ministers and the chief minister all in attendance, Varghese Kurien called the IAS lobby termites.
Some doors, it turns out, you can knock on for years and they still won't tell you what's really behind them.
Prohibition never stopped anyone from drinking in Gujarat. It only made the stories that come after a lot more interesting, recounts Binu Alex.
Cyril Radcliffe drew India's border without ever visiting it. Turns out our environmental clearance system learned the same trick -- and the Western Ghats are paying for it, points out Binu Alex.
I had gone to Baramati to ask about loans. I came back having done a small, accidental good.
Ramesh is not in our class group photo. He had already vanished from school by the time it was taken. We didn't know why then. A few weeks later, we did, recalls Binu Alex.
We have Yoga Day. We have Hindi Day. We have, I am fairly certain, so many days, though I have never met anyone enjoying these days, notes Binu Alex.
The men in my family left early. The women stayed. And somewhere in between, they made me whoever I am, notes Binu Alex.
Major Jojy Joseph led from the front. Laid down his life. In the service of the nation.
'A film that puts a Malayali collector, a Malayali general, and a Malayali gangster all in the same national plot does not feel pan-Indian. It feels like a school play where only one family showed up,' notes Binu Alex after watching the Mohanlal-Mammootty starrer Patriot.
A few frantic calls later, the answer emerged: She had missed her connecting flight in London. Not because she was late. Not because she couldn't walk fast enough. She had simply gone to the wrong gate, sat down, and waited.
