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Articles by arneet
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Cinque Terre, Italy
People write it as Cinque Terre and call it as ‘Chin-Kway Tey-re’ and it looks out of the world, though it is on the edge of the world. It is under UNESCO and includes five villages chiseled on the mountains artistically and very beautifully colored. The pictures looked so beautiful in the brochure that it…
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Home for Thought
My home is an extension of the hospital. I live in a hospital. I work in another. I go from the Pediatric hospital where I stay to the multi specialty hospital I work in. I love them both and the drive between them. Life is a bliss. My daughter was born in a hospital, lived…
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Balcony to Philosophy
The white Ambassador car stopped in front of a building. I looked at the building trying to see if it was the one I visited 7 years back. I saw a spectacled face from a balcony looking straight at the taxi.
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Iceland: A Visit This Summer
A trip to Iceland with my daughter to Reykjavik and Siglufjordur was memorable experience. This summer when there are no nights there, we spent two weeks amidst mountains, ocean, seagulls and ducks, nature at its very best.
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The Marathon Man
This is inspirational, considering his feat in marathon is amidst work and circumstances that would make it almost impossible to even think about starting something like marathon. He made me believe that only we limit our potential, like nothing else does.
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Rangoon and the Philosophy of Love
The movie Rangoon and its backdrop invoked a thought process into philosophy of life, love and a mission. The thought as complex and as trivial as life itself.
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Head Injury and Court Evidence
A short summary of a court evidence describes the importance of analysis of intracranial haemorrhages during court evidence. The details of the case, name of the deceased, location of the court and name of the other expert have been purposely hidden.
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To Bhutan and Back
Climbing to Taktsang monastery, reading Buddhist philosophy, harvest time in Bhutan, traditional architecture, Chelela Pass and mountains – some of the cherished snapshots of those few days of life.
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Lean in – Women, Work and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg.
The book ‘Lean in’ is a must read to understand wok dynamics and what it means. Several biases and myths one carries unintentionally are sorted out quite technically.
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New York and New York University (NYU) : A Five Days Trip
The New York University and the city are places where people from all over the world can be seen. It is a mini world where everyone feels themselves as individuals and as part of whole. It’s a place where creativity is welcome in every form conceived. The tourist feels at home and the locals seem to be on the move. The young and not so young are the only distinctions of age. Concept of education, skill and livelihood can be appreciated only with liberated and open minds. It is a mini world, but out of the world.
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Madness of Thought
Living and surviving with a dream at AIIMS Bhopal. Struggle within and struggle outside are undeniably the forces to reckon and face when humble beginnings happen for major projects. Did it ever happen otherwise? Looking at the present from a day years ahead in future improves the perspective and reconciles the unrest.
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Working Stiff – Book Review
The book is written by a Forensic Pathologist describing her training as a Medical Examiner in New York. The September 11, 2001 tragedy and the role of Forensic team is also described in one of the chapters. It is an outspoken autobiographical book written well giving a picture of how a Forensic Pathologist is trained in USA.
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Goa for Three
This is a blend of travelogue and fiction. The fiction has basis but no limitation of confining to reality. It is Goa a couple of days ago beautiful serene and exciting, depending on how you look at it, but definitely refreshing and compulsive in making people come alive.
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Court Evidence at Ganj Basoda
A warrant from Ganj Basoda for appearing in court on 7th August was shown to me on 5th August. It was an arrest warrant with the message stated on it as ‘Saakshi ko hathkadi na lagai jaaye’ meaning the ‘witness be not handcuffed’. I had not received summon earlier for the case and I was served…
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Boston and Iowa Visit
Iowa a small town in USA is regarded as literary capital of the world and rightfully so. It has people reading and writing or involved in intellectual discourse all the time and everywhere. To be in that geographical location was a feast to the mind and soul. It was a vacation I had never expected. Impulse to sketch, something I had not done for decades overpowered me and I felt a ‘high’ of a sort which was my own. It was the moment of rediscovering and falling in love with oneself. Indulgence to read whatever one desired for as long as one preferred was a reality.
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The Rise and Fall of a Hot Air Balloon
The Sunday on 22nd February 2015 was planned five days in advance. An early morning ride in the hot air balloon sounded a mix of adventure, suspense and exhilaration to us. A half an hour ride was an experience beyond the limited quantum of time. It started with Bertha, Kalyani, Garima, Varun, Piyush and myself…
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My Experiences at the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival 2015
Literature festivals are full of accomplished, acclaimed and awarded people, some eccentric beyond our wildest imagination and some gracefully grounded. Their intensity and grade of intellect makes them win our approval without hesitation. There were intensive sessions for 12 hours each day and yet we did not seem to have enough. Some sessions we sat cross legged on cold stone floor in Rajasthan cold weather, with pleasure, when no chairs were available. Diggi palace, the venue for the Fair, had six places where six sessions would continue simultaneously like the Front lawns, Baithak, Samvad, Mughal court, Darbar Hall. It was a literary interactive conference quite like and yet unlike Mumbai Lit Live or Bookaro festival at Delhi.
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Corpus Delicti
Moser was dead. Sitting on an overstuffed chair in his office in arrested aggression and eyes wide open, he was stabbed by a dagger in the chest- boldly and strongly; the handle of the dagger was fixed and jutted out almost vertically from the left side of his chest. An hour ago, Sakshi had entered…