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A man flung himself from the high rise building to kill himself but landed on the man who was walking on foot path below. Pedestrian died on the impact, the man who wanted to end his life survived . Today, Japan newspapers reported a man aged 93 years who had survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing passed away. Yamaguchi San was in Hiroshima on a business trip for his shipbuilding firm on August 6, 1945 and suffered serious burns when atomic bomb detonated. He returned to his hometown, Nagasaki , which suffered another atomic bomb three days later. A young man from Mumbai was not so lucky during 1992, when string of terrorist deadly bombs unleashed on Mumbai . He was at Bombay stock exchange when first bomb triggered causing many casualties . He survived and was happy. He called up his home telling them about his being safe and carried on his next visit to Oberoi hotel where another bomb blast awaited him. He didn't survive this time. I have great fascination for S...

This time, I was keen to erase my unpleasant memories of 1981. Then, the incident was 'acute appendicitis surgery'. Now, it was the surgical correction of ' avulsion fracture with displacement at the base of fifth metatarsal'. In 81, the procedure started with the local anesthesia induced through spinal injection. Was it the cause of an anesthetic agent or my fear ? I don't know. All I recall was I struggled violently for water to quench my parched throat and body. There was no mercy. I was forced to sleep and to wake up after 12 hours. The torrid memories stayed with me all these years. This time, I wanted to be alert to witness that moment of slipping into sleep. As my mobile stretcher wheeled inside the OT, familiar brands of Valleylab , Maquet were in sight. A bolus through the IV cannula pushed into the vein of my left wrist as the Nurse standing next to my right shoulder sighed in exasperation for a hairless site on my chest to paste ECG electrodes. That was...

The germination seed was planted during my communication with Delhi based journalist on the topic of Khushwant Singh. There was a mutual agreement about his easy writing skills and his keen sense of observation that gets reflected in his syndicated column ‘With Malice towards One and All’ , But his penchant for sex-centric theme made my friend a bit sceptical of his senile behaviour. Just a week before, I had seen a Video by Prof Randy Pausch , a Carnegie Mellon University computer-science professor, on last lecture series, wherein the professor goes on to describing his life being aware that his living days on this planet are numbered. These two subjects ‘SEX’ and ‘DEATH’ played on mind to bring another fascinating subject of ‘LUST’. I started day dreaming about possible association of ‘cradle to grave ‘and ‘sex to death’. Sex and Death are most esoteric, weird topics that bring excitement to me but they do come with a fair degree of trepidation. I relate Sex to a Creation while Deat...