World from the Blue Shades

  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...