पुनश्च हरि ओम

 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 sure, if this is retirement or a long holiday. 

Tolstoy wrote in his famous story, 'what men live by', that the angel was to find out three things, what dwells in man, what is not given to man, and what men live by. he finds that it is not given to man to know the future. therefore, i am not going to attempt to know what is in future.

montaigne wrote in a essay, that one should not judge a man's success or failure, till he is dead.

without declaring anything on this account, i have decided to live every day as it comes.