#Anonymous Hack MIT Sites: In Memoriam, Aaron Swartz
The online vigilante justice group, anonymous, has hit out at the MIT for the role they purportedly played in bringingContinue Reading
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A Lexicon for Public Health Students: The Design Effect
Reblogged from my previous post on the Community Medicine Education Blog, as a part of the new series where IContinue Reading
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Social Peer Review: The IJMI Breaks New Ground
With an innovative move to have open peer review of submissions to the IJMI on the G+ community (closed andContinue Reading
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A Lexicon for Public Health Students: Hobson’s Choice
This is a new series of posts in which I intend to de-mystify some concepts that are largely confusing (toContinue Reading
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Google Kills Free Google Apps: I am worried!
In an announcement in the Official Google Enterprise Blog, it was revealed that the Google Apps free version is noContinue Reading
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Social Exclusion and Inclusion: A Primer
This was a write-up I did for an assignment as part of my Residency training. We have such “informally formal”Continue Reading
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Brown Bag Sessions: Food for Thought
We have been contemplating the concept of having a Brown Bag session once in two weeks in our department forContinue Reading
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World AIDS Day: Getting to Zero
A couple of days ago, I had a moment of great joy in the clinic we work in the communityContinue Reading
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PeerJ Calls for Papers: Disruptive Innovation in Open Access
I have been very excited about PeerJ ever since Peter Binfield took up the challenge of bringing down the costsContinue Reading
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Side Effect of Narela: Missing PoTF and Friends
Note: The photos do not belong to me. They are the work of Animesh Ray. Do check his site outContinue Reading
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Facebooking Your Faculty: To be or not to be?
Few emerging technologies have taken by storm the world as much as Facebook has. Although a plummeting share price hasContinue Reading
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Despatch from Narela: Another Rural Posting Experience
It has been quite a long hiatus since I last wrote here, and a plethora of changes have affected myContinue Reading
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Ajit Sengupta: Burning Bright
Today marks 2 years since that fateful day when Ajit Sengupta passed away. As one of the many admirers andContinue Reading
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Peter Binfield Leaves PLOSONE to Found A Novel OA Journal
Peter Binfield joined PLoS ONE in March 2008, when the journal was merely a new fangled concept looked on withContinue Reading
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On Being A Gadfly
Although this is the age of Evidence Based Medicine, in large parts of our country, the “E” in EBM doesContinue Reading
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What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
When Chris Rumble, an American Hockey player aged all of 22 years was diagnosed with Leukemia, he was, understandably crushed.Continue Reading
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AIIMS May 2012: Part–I: Nostalgia
First up, a sincere apology to my email subscribers for messing up your email with multiple temporary post mails fromContinue Reading
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David vs Goliath: And Dadagiri Forever!
In today’s Pune warriors vs Mumbai match, it was a battle of unequal powers. The Pune team was almost onContinue Reading
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National Doctors’ Day & The Perils of Being an Indian (Junior) Doctor
“There is no greater reward in our profession than the knowledge that God has entrusted us with the physical careContinue Reading
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The Passing of Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich died from complications related to rheumatoid arthritis which she had suffered from all her adult life. She wasContinue Reading
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And the AIPG Fiasco Continues
The 5300-odd rankers in the AIPG were breathing a sigh of relief when the notification for counseling for Post GraduationContinue Reading
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World TB Day: Make Your Own Poster, Show your Support
Well, its not too fab considering I did not put too much thought into which floating head of mine shouldContinue Reading
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TB or Not TB: World TB Day–No More TB
Today is the World Tuberculosis Day. It commemorates the day in 1882 when Robert Koch made the stunning announcement thatContinue Reading
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Kashi Katha: Row Row Row Your Boat…
I went on a trip to Benares to take an exam and it turned out to be a journey ofContinue Reading
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Twitter Acquires Posterous: The End of A Good Thing?
As someone who uses email a lot, Posterous was the best way for me to get an online, no fussContinue Reading
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Game, Set… MATCH!
A number of my friends applied for the USMLE this year and it seems that with every passing year moreContinue Reading
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Another AIPG Controversy
Rumors and hearsay have been a dime a dozen since the bombshell of an AIPG dropped on us and sinceContinue Reading
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MAHE: A Fantastic Test Experience of an Unfair Evaluation System
I took the Manipal MD/MS PG Entrance examination today (aka MAHE) and as it was the first ever online testContinue Reading
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Landmark Order: JIPMER Asked to Reveal Test Paper and Keys
One of the biggest bones that the Indian post graduate entrance examinees had to pick with the system was theContinue Reading
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TEDx Comes to Kolkata
As a part of a bigger TEDx webcast from Berlin, a TEDx event is being organized in Kolkata, at EasternContinue Reading
