Those Barber Surgeons Those were the days when as you went for a hair cut, your barber would trim your hairs inside your nose, pick any thing stuck inside your ear canal as he would use a sharp blade to pare your nails. Barbers were adept in using sharp blades on human skin. They wouldContinue reading “The first Painless Surgery”
Monthly Archives: September 2022
The Fall of Constantinople
Constantinople [ Constantinople is a city of 3000 years. In the first one thousand years of its existence, ( 600 BC – 400AD) it was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and was known as the Byzantium. In its second thousand years ( 400 AD to 1400 AD) it remained the capital of the EasternContinue reading “The Fall of Constantinople”
The Rubicon Dilemma
For 9 years, CAESAR had been away from Rome and busy conquering France and Gauls with his handful of faithfuls. Rome was a Republic then. It had a Senate which passed all rules by vote in a democratic manner. Julius Caesar was the governor of the northern province. But his victories had made him theContinue reading “The Rubicon Dilemma”
Don’t Chase the butterflies
Pandemic to Endemic and so on..
As I scanned through the daily covid-19 figures of our zone, I got a pleasant surprise. Even the new Covid-19 cases in the country has fallen below 10,000. Does it mean the present wave has come to an end ? There are too many caveats in this statement. Today Covid-19 has settled down to aContinue reading “Pandemic to Endemic and so on..”