The Game Of Care And Cure

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 4/24/2013 4:56:00 PM

';;;   Picture Courtesy“It is the last place I would step into” fortunately or so I am one of those who will never wish to say this unlike many others while speaking about a hospital, thanks to all the medicine I know and I am in the process of learning. It is the first place I look forward to be in and do what I am best at. Every morning when I make it to my work place I see people queuing up to get an appointment, people waiting outside the laboratory to get their reports(...)'

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My Life My Rules - Book Review

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 4/22/2013 3:47:00 PM

'Aristotle once said "All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire." This book made me agree. A compilation of real life stories how people can change their life if they really wish to. An unconventional career is something which is as under rated as much as it is over rated. The bottom line of all the stories is just this- if you think you are or can become good at something there is nothing that can make yo(...)'

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My Life My Rules- Book Review

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 4/22/2013 3:33:00 PM

'Aristotle once said "All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire." This book made me agree. A compilation of real life stories how people can change their life if they really wish to. An unconventional career is something which is as under rated as much as it is over rated. The bottom line of all the stories is just this- if you think you are or can become good at something there is nothing t(...)'

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On Line

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 4/10/2013 6:40:00 PM

';;;; Picture CourtesyWherever you are whatever you do your laptop ends up being your quintessential companion, and this I realized on a self funded project of observing people along with my dissertation and everything else in the process of post graduation. While I say so, the social network just follows and enters this discussion. Switch on your laptop, and there it is. There is one group amongst us who prefer to run a mile away from it, away from all the fake book and jitter. And (...)'

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Howdy! Weather ?

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 4/9/2013 1:04:00 PM

';;;; Edward Hamilton Aitken in one part of his book ‘A naturalist on the prowl’ talking about the banian tree sensibly writes“…another thing that makes futile much of our roadside planting is the erratic selection of trees, without any regard to whether they will grow or do any good where we put them” If you were to see the kind of trees being cut, and the kind of those being planted (if at all any) I am sure there is nothing that we can find to correlate. And how we swear on the su(...)'

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Quest

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 4/7/2013 12:25:00 PM

';;; While we turn and runTrue love like the sunNeither does set, nor does riseIt is just there and around In some space boundlessIn some heart guilelessWhile we search to seekFrom the dayThrough the nightFrom the beginningUntil the endAnd make it look like One tough questAnd call it Ah 'life' !-R-'

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Laugh Lab

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 3/26/2013 5:08:00 PM

';;;; Things that keep us going in the lab:Scene #1: Reporting  at 9amMe: M’am the isolate from the sample is is E. coli, sensitive to all the first and second line antibiotics.Professor: Oh then this is a well mannered E.coli, no worries.#humanizingmicrobesScene#2: Professor having her own doubts on the quality control of staining for acid fast bacilli for the day < loud and out >“I think these AFBs are pale and anemic, we do not feed them with stains”#humanizin(...)'

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Cage

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 3/25/2013 5:22:00 PM

';;;; If you are locked up insideWith a fellow alikeAnd your wings tied up Which are meant to soarIn the open skies, over the cloudsBeating and breathing the windsFilling your lungs and the soul withinWhat is life, with all the joyIs it in the being togetherOr in doing all those things You are destined toMaybe far, even differentBut always in syncThe bird in your heart Will sing this songA cage even with your loveIs never a home-R-'

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Easy Pleasy

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 3/21/2013 4:09:00 PM

'If you were to ask me well an 'EGPG',thats the way the entire fraternity begins calling you right from the time you are almost entering the final year of your post graduation about the things that make you feel like one.Here is what I have come to realize:They think you should know it all, you think do you know at allYou have the faintest idea of how days pass onto nights but you know that the doomsday is not any far awayYou walk with an air of purpose,nobody knows what. And then th(...)'

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Gravity

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 3/17/2013 6:20:00 PM

'; As strong as this groundOn which I am flat downIs this wish in my heartTo hold you closeTo feel you breatheLike always before Wrapped in my armsIn a silence that speaks Through dusk and dawnIf you are the one up therePlaying hide and seekWatching me fight sleepBehind this veil all greenBetween the clouds afloatWanting to come hereAs much as I long All night to be thereUp with you, for youOnly to let you knowHow much I miss youHold it safe and tightThe gravity of our loveFor it kee(...)'

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The Ignorant Man vs The Intelligent Bug

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 3/11/2013 4:56:00 PM

';;;” 80 % of sore throat and common cold are viral, but 80 % of the people who get them take antibiotics”a very senior professor remarked at a scientific session here a few days ago, a tragedy this is of sort of which we all have been a part since the time Fleming found the penicillin. Today self prescriptions at four out of five times are far from rationality. Professional prescriptions are not any far behind. With times it has just gotten harder, and when I find at least one bug a(...)'

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The Only Beautiful Thing

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 3/3/2013 5:48:00 PM

';;; At the beginning, there it isLove, of which you thinkAs the only beautiful thingIt just flows Keeps your life afloatThrough the thicketsRumbling with the rocksGlittering with the greenSinging with your heartAt the end, if there it isIn the dunes of a desertStill but strongLone but thereLike a little oasis In the time of thirstOnly because its you Call it for sureForever and for alwaysThe only beautiful thing-R-'

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Pack Up

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 2/19/2013 7:54:00 PM

';;;;; When the light of the day flickers outWhen the night crickets unite to buzzWhen everything is said and doneAnd you are left at the end of it allAll you need is a dreamless sleepBefore you start the drama againFor days do and always beginBefore you, only for you after all-R-'

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The Scientist

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 2/18/2013 5:00:00 PM

';;; A hepatitis scientist drank a yogurt shake with s*** from hepatitis patients, yes he drank it. Well only to make sure that he gets a good load of virus sample for further research. Eeeks! I know a disgusting opening statement to make. Somehow can’t get this out of my mind past one month, there are some unavoidable things that you come across while reading journal articles. And some sensible things while watching movies as Mr. Rzykruski puts it right ” They like what science give(...)'

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Research - The Road Most Travelled

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 2/17/2013 6:45:00 PM

'Nothing as dirty and dangerous as 'bad research' in science.-R.'

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Old Leaf

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 2/3/2013 4:21:00 PM

';;; Like a million words Your love runsThrough my veinsIn silence, in peaceAnd I like an old leafWith strength,with easeShall live in between Those favorite pagesIn the book of lifeBeyond our storyForever and ever-R-'

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Republic

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 1/25/2013 6:35:00 PM

';;; When all humanity comes by nature When yours is as important as mineWhen rules are more than followedWhen laws are not meant to escape When freedom is more than a rightWhen duty is more than your workWhen a national day is not a holidayWe shall call ourselves a Republic.-R-'

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Sunday Afternoon

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 1/20/2013 9:44:00 AM

';;; On a silent Sunday afternoonThe clock goes slow, tick tockThe wheels roll on the roadThe windows tremble in the wind The birds too tired to chirpThe sun is too high on the topThe stars do not want the skyThe clouds too are out of sightThings all naturalJust like lifeWhere there is so much left Like every other dayFor every other reasonTo dos, to meet and to rememberOn a silent Sunday afternoonThe clock goes slow, tick tock And all you want to do is sleep.-R'

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Accidental India - Book Review

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 1/20/2013 9:04:00 AM

';;;;; Picture Courtesy“A nation of a billion people cannot wait endlessly for accidents. India deserves better”It surely does. But progress, politics and policies are beyond the scope of their knowledge as well as the will of understanding for our average countrymen. And there is where we should hope to bring in some change because unless the knowing and realization happens of what contributes to the development, of what causes the problem we cannot find out what is the solution. Th(...)'

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Fire (At) Work

Author : Raksha Bhat      Blog : A Canary's Diary      Date : 1/8/2013 6:35:00 PM

'"You are going to cry if you enter" is what my friend told me before we made our way to work that day. That would have been the case usually for reasons as they are in in any other work place. Load, duties, responsibilities and pressures alike.We entered through the emergency exit, our first time that way. The moment we stepped in to the place  we had left the last evening at half past four there was something more than we had expected. A laboratory buzzing twenty four seven wi(...)'

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