Dr. Ramakanta

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”

A letter for my Son…

Today is the last day of my son’s matric board exam.On the way to drop him at his school ( last day in this almamater) I asked him, ” what do you want to study in future?”His mother wants him to be an engineer. Because one of his cousin has just completed BE & hasContinue reading “A letter for my Son…”

The story of coffee mugs.

( Stories Retold ) A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. All of them have a lot of things in common- their school, background, success, wealth, power, position and a lot of stress and poor life quality. The professor went inside the kitchen and returnedContinue reading “The story of coffee mugs.”

Shake it off and step up.

( Stories Retold ) One day a farmer’s donkey fell into an abandoned well. For hours, the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided that the animal was pretty old and the well needed to be covered up anyway. So he grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into theContinue reading “Shake it off and step up.”