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Dialysis Insurance in India

What are we waiting for when all variables for sustainable successful business model are present and intact? Few snapshots for India Dialysis • App 2,000K patients with renal failure. 900K need dialysis • Adds app.150K ESRD new persons every year. Only app. 20K has an access to treatment. 75% don’t even get a chance because of lack of awareness, lack of care and affordability. • Out of 20K, 4K gets Renal Transplant while 8K gets HD. Rest perish waiting to tap resources. Even those who get treated ended up in losing all their family wealth, health and peace of mind and even kidney and yet don’t live longer. Doesn’t have insurance nor any social welfare measures. • The mean age of ESRD patients is between 32 and 42 years, compared to 60 and 63 years in developed countries. They are at productive age for the nation. • Three times a week dialysis costs app. Rs 10,000.equivalent to the entire family income per month.

Talk on Dubai – A bubble of facts or just babble of disillusion ?

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It started with little murmurs, leading towards a topic of discussion , finding its way to medium of bloggers whose expressions were based more out of frustration and exasperation than any meaningful substance of figures. The media largely controlled by Govt. published brave signs when it was neither necessary nor called for. I watched, listened and participated in all this with great curiosity. I started taking active interest when stories started occupying the columns of New York Times and International Herald Tribune. It was about Dubai Economy with predictions, analysis, theories and speculations. Articles galored . How Dubai's fantasy skyline tumbled to earth , Dubai Bubble burst and Video on You Tube I knew all along it was coming. However, I did not know when?. Everything seemed unreal yet it shaped in front of the eyes. The rational part of the brain doubted the variables that existed on the economic equation of the Dubai. Yet, it stayed on. In fact it not just stayed o

Jai Ho for Akshta

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Three movies in a day

What does one do, when medicines that were supposed to alleviate your physical pain cause further damage? One can either go back to medical specialist and ask him to alter the course of the treatment or one detach from medical intervention and let body find its rhythm naturally. I chose later option when a treatment for fever, throat infection led to persistent cough and collapse of voice box. Over the weekend, I chose two therapies. First, lot of rest and second, drink plenty of warm water. Restless mind even with rest often turns to laptop. I started with Hindi movie Ghazani on Saturday and finished By Sunday morning. This was followed by later part of Billu Barber and then Maqbool that stretched up to the late night. Domination of character ‘Mian’ was too strong to leave my nightmarish mind disturbed by acute cough attacks emanating from tiniest of bronchi. With natural treatment heading nowhere, I will have no option but to go back to the doctor. These days, various Internet sites

Road to Khalistan

Road to Khalistan is a blog not for people with weak heart and guts. It also has links to various other blogs from Sikh community across the world. All of them still carry fresh wounds from inhuman, brutal assault meted out to them and their loved ones on the evening of November 30 th . Their only crime was they were Sikh by appearance and they happened to be in the vicinity of barbaric people. I learnt about the assassination of Mrs Indira Gandhi at noon in BHEL colony at Bhopal. I was at the home of one prospective doctor customer , watching India Pakistan one day cricket match. I had almost finished my work in Bhopal and was to go back to Indore to carry on with my business trip. Everything seems fine at Bhopal Bus depot but not so when bus arrived at Indore bus terminus. Black billowing clouds were ballooning the city from the burning of Tyres . From the balcony of my hotel adjoining the railway lines, I could see crowds of people dragging their loot from the shops to their home.

Zakaria and Bandra

Those were the days of ‘Cow and Calf ’; well before the ‘Hand’ became official symbol of Indian National congress. In election time, paper posters of Indira Gandhi with slogans of Garibi Hatao would get plastered on the yellow walls of Government servant’s colony in Bandra East. Name of Zakaria often would figure in those election campaigns. Only later I learnt the connection between Ahmed, Rafiq and Fareed Zakaria . Ahmed was nephew of Mr Rafiq Zakaria – learned and articulate person. While canvassing for his nephew, I remember him telling my father ‘There is no point in canvassing middle class dominated Kalanagar - MIG area – You would never vote for congress!”. It was the fact. Most of the bourgeois population of Bandra had turned into an anti-establishment and often voted for opposition Jan Sangh , Socialist party, or later Shiv Sena. I do not know much about the contribution of Ahmed Zakaria or other Shiv Sena Corporators who did not even attempt to make make a good r