विवेक विचार

begin at the beginning, come to the end and stop. this piece of wisdom was imparted to Alice while she was wandering about in wonderland; by the red king. as she was bewildered by the events happening around her, i too am bewildered by the past and trying to remember where was the beginning! i suppose, it was somewhere in the year 1975, in the month of june/july in mumbai iit. i remember the famous poem by robert frost, 'two roads' The Road Not Taken Play Audio By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to w...

 eight and half years ago, i took a drastic step. i closed my surgical practice in aurangabad and went to work at Pravara medical college in Loni. Initially, i thought i will try for three months and then decide. the situation developed so that i continued there for eight and half years.  now after spending so much time away from aurangabad, i am back home. almost like spending a long sentence in prison. and hard labour at that.  there is a proverb which states, that every few years, one should shed all baggage and start afresh. this is the second time, i am doing this.  it is not a month yet since i was formally relieved and i do not know how things will progress from here. since this happened as a continuation of our uk trip, which lasted 7 weeks, the holiday mood is still around.  Hennessy Ogilvie, a british surgeon once said, surgeons should retire at 55 and then travel, write, do social service. by his dictum, i delayed retirement by 11 years. and am not su...