It was February of 2003. As the last patient of a busy day walked in, Dr Liu Jianlun was relieved. His mind was already preoccupied with the upcoming marriage event he had to attend in Hongkong that weekend. It seemed to be a simple case of fever but the farmer from Guangdong was unusually breathless.”Continue reading “Another February, Another Fever.”
Monthly Archives: March 2020
Lessons from Ebola
Down a dirt path outside of the village of Meliandou in Guinea once stood a tall, hollow tree where children used to play. They used to catch bats in its hollow trunk. The village was strategically located because an urban point linking 3 countries ie Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia was nearby and had anContinue reading “Lessons from Ebola”
The Learning Zone
To my son (Today starts his first CBSE paper : English) We are standing in front of the gate of KV-4, the center for CBSE examination of my son. There was a long queue in front of us. So I recounted the story of Demosthenes as we were taught in our primary classes 4 decadesContinue reading “The Learning Zone”
The Spanish Flu (1918-1919)
( Another Pandemic, another memory ) History repeats itself because man makes the same mistakes. Exactly 100 years back, in a March afternoon in 1917, an American doctor in Texas noticed that people were dying from a new disease. A deadly flu was rapidly spreading. But nobody would listen to him. He was silenced byContinue reading “The Spanish Flu (1918-1919)”
The Fall of Hubei
The Fall of the Incas. Incas of Peru were a great civilization. In fact they were the greatest empire of the sixteenth century world. They had an army of 80,000. In 1525, they had an unusual visitor. It was only a small group of Spanish explorer. But one of the Spaniard was infected with smallContinue reading “The Fall of Hubei”
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