World from the Blue Shades

Before I start let me clear, that I am not a person who is very much into the paintings, arts and craft and all such beautiful and creative artwork. It requires immense patience, dedication, skill a calm and peaceful mind to bring out one good stuff. My friends and colleagues who are into such creative field of work either as a hobby or for bread, if you are reading it, you have my respect, yes, I mean it. Keep up the good work! Now coming to the topic for which I am writing this blog. A couple of months ago when we all were dealing with this lockdown, an idea struck to my mind to bring out few beautiful portraits to a wall in my room, about things that have had a little impact on me in shaping my perspectives with growing age. After surfing the internet, I came across this beautiful watercolour painting “Glow of Hope” by S.L. Haldankar. It was painted in 1945-46, almost seven decades ago, but yet holds the same amount of fascination for art lovers all over the country as it did then....

  A day before Independence Day, I was surfing the internet and came across this intellective and amusing personality ‘Anand Gandhi’. As per Wikipedia, Anand is an Indian filmmaker, entrepreneur, media producer, innovator and system researcher. He has directed few movies like- Tumbbad, An Insignificant Man, Ship of Theseus. This blog is all about the latter one. After studying articles and checking out few interviews of Anand Gandhi, I was so amused by his persona which induced me to watch his films. I watched 2 of his films quickly and came to write my insightful experience I had with this beautifully directed thought-provoking film “Ship of Theseus”. Before I start just to let you know, this film was released in India in 2013 and won the National Film Award in 2014. Although it won many National and International Awards, it did not get the mass popularity that it deserved. One of the reasons could be that this is not a cinema to entertain a mass audience and everyone may not appr...

Because Solution is "Affordability" Got to know about this amazing Indian startup model via an online course offered by Harvard University- "Narayana Heart Hospital founded by Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty". The important thing here is to know how Dr. Shetty identified an institutional void related to a tertiary care in India namely one that aims to combat a particularly important cluster of chronic heart disease which leads to "HEART ATTACK". South-Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Srilanka are very prone to heart diseases, specifically, on an average, Indians get a heart attack 8-10 years earlier than other ethnic groups. The most unfortunate fact is that 40 per cent people in our country who develop heart attack are under the age of 55, and approximately 2.5 millions people require heart surgeries per year in India. Surgery such as Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) improves blood flow to the heart. Surgeons use CABG to treat people who have severe cor...

I wrote this article long before I created this blog. Recently my few well wishers who enjoy reading my blogs suggested me to add that article here in my blog. Hence, I would be sharing a link below which will redirect you straight to the article. In this article  I have penned down my thoughts where I talk about- Depression: an everyday battle, the taboo around it, how to identify it & how to fight it. So, I will leave you here with the link below.  Happy Reading!                                                          Click here to read the article