Ladies and gentlemen, I invite you to the official launch of my book “Neumonia and Other Sketch Stories”

Details are as follows:

Date & Time: 1st August, Saturday at 6:00 pm
Venue: Oxford Bookstore, The Leela Palace, Bangalore

For knowing more about the book and the press coverage it has received, please visit www.sketchstories.com

I look forward to seeing you at the event

In this interesting article in The New York Times, Anand Giridharadas, talks about his feelings towards India, a country he only fleetingly knew as his parents had settled in the US of A.  After spending 6 years in India and now departing back to the States, Anand reflects back on how his attitude towards India has changed. Poignant, I say.
Early years:

My cousins in India would sometimes ask if I was Indian or American. I saw that their self-esteem depended on my answer. “American,” I would say, because it was the truth, and because I felt that to say otherwise would be to accept a lower berth in the world.

And now:

But the greatest change I have witnessed is elsewhere. It is in the mind: Indians now know that they don’t have to leave, as my parents left, to have their personal revolutions.

Read the complete article here.

Link submitted by Giri Giridhar at The Better India.

Forbes India carries this wonderful article on Dr. Devi Shetty and his Narayana Hrudyalaya Institute of Cardiac Sciences. While the world over cardiac surgeries are very expensive, Dr. Shetty has managed to bring down the costs significantly.
The article talks about his “Wal-mart approach to healthcare” which is essentially using scale to negotiate costs. The article says:

Scale helped Shetty shave off costs of medical tests too. Take blood gas analysis. At Rs. 350-400 per test, it forms the bulk of the cost for an ICU patient in India. At Narayana Hrudyalaya it costs merely Rs. 8.50 per test!

Read the complete article: The World’s Largest Heart Factory

Hindustan Times carried a short and nice review of my book, “Neumonia and Other Sketch Stories”.

Click here to read the review.

In case you are not able to view the epaper link, the review is reproduced below:

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Ladies and gentlemen, enjoy.