Beginning today, I have decided that I will be posting three times a week instead of daily.

As it can be guessed easily, time is the major constraints. This blog has just started to pick up its speed and I feel happy writing on this.

But there are other engagements too.

I do not want to write few lines and then post it for sake of publishing. I have chosen this blog to be a ground for sharing everything I feel and like/dislike.

I do not want t just wind it up everyday.

As this blog is not bounded by any limits of niche/audience, there is plenty to say.

But the time is factor.

I can post daily for few days but I can see a very busy 2010 where it may not be possible to write on this blog everyday.

I already write on daily basis on the two other sites of mine.

One is Home For Profits, a website about internet marketing. This was my first website that I started in 2004.

Another is Bone and Spine Health which is a website about musculoskeletal health.

I have to write on these sites daily because I have been doing that in the past.

So setting a daily frequency for this website is not practical and would be counterproductive in the end.

I have decide Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays as probable days on which I would be posting on this site.

I will let you know.

Bandhs and protests always cause public inconvenience.

There are methods to solve issues without inconvenience to others.

A bandh paralyses the state.

Who gets benefited from paralysis?

It is the common man that is at loss.

Anyways. I just hope it remains peaceful.

Yes! 40 minutes.

This happened today morning.

That delayed my journey by probably more than the period  I than I waited at the crossing because it took another 30 minutes to clear the backlog and before traffic was smooth again.

I have always despised railway crossings. I do not think anyone likes them except children who love to see a moving train.

Railway crossings stop the movement.

Everyday thoousands of people stop to let a train pass. I cannot even count how many manhours are wasted at these crossings.

There are people who face this menace everyday.

Railway overbridge is a beautiful solution. Everyone including rail can move.

But we are still left with so many crossings that it stops making sense when we say that we are developing.

From thin arterial structures, highways are being turned into giant entities.

Imagine a single road accomodating trafic of both directions being turned into a 8 laned road.

The roads are increasing in capacity to transfer number of vehicles at any given period.That means more movement and higher influx of trafic from one city to another.

It is a pleasure to drive on these highways. You just zoom past everything. Flyovers have added their share to please the vehicles.

You can reach the destination in significantly reduced time.

The nightmares are roads of city.

Neglected, abused and overlooked they have become weakest links in a journey between two cities.

Mixed traffic, reduced road space due to encroachment by shops, potholes, manholes, ditches, cows, rickshaws, railway crossings.

You name an inconvenience and you would soon encounter it.

So the time gained on highways is eaten by the city roads.

I do not know when they would be improved.

1 December is celebrated as World AIDS Day every year.

The aim is to raise the level of awareness and spread. The disease has killed millions and is still infecting many others.

Let us strengthen those who are fighting and who are helping the fighters.

English has been an alien language since beginning but Hindi was natural. So I wrote in what cam naturally.

From Hindi poetry I then moved to verse in Hindi. I also served as Co-editor of our college magazine “Spandan”, a yearly magazine by students of Maulana Azad Medical College [The place where I did my MBBS from]

When pulse polio was introduced, I had the privilege to pen down few slogans and lyrics for promotional song.

After my graduation, I moved into postgraduation in orthopedics and did not write for sometime.

But in end of that post graduation I again wrote more than 100 poems and ghazals. I still have those with me. The previous ones had been lost due to a foolish act of frenzy.

Anyways!

Orthopedics brought out scientific writer in me and quest for spirituality. May be trauma and morbidity surrounding was responsible to ask the questions which science could not answer.

Thus began a journey full of pains and pleasures. Not getting an answer is very painful. And nothing is more pleasurable than realization of world and mysteries surrounding that.

You do not get all the answers but you do get signs that indicate you would find them.

In 2204 October, I founded my first website http://homeforprofits.com. How and why is a big question. I would write in detail one day.

For now it is sufficient that, it was born out of hobby and later developed into passion.

Further down, I founded Bone and Spine Health, a website on orthopedics meant for people other than orthopedists.

Both of my sites are quite different in their audience. While one is on health, other is on internet business.

I like them both and they are quite successful by their own unique metrics.

I try writing daily for both of them.

There are 7 other sites that I run. But they are yet to come into mainstream called success.

Each of these sites have an interst or skill or hoby that dominates the content.

I still needed some place to write on topics unrestricted by the limits.

That is how I founded arunpalsingh.com

There are no targets to meet here, there are no forces that limit my content.

Rather than for any audience, it is for my selfish self.

But somehow deep down I feel that it is going to surpass the success of everything so far I have done.

Let us see.

I am quite pleased to note that  Wordpress has grabbed first rank in and awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards.

This is first time the Wordpress has won this award and I would say it was quite deserved.

In addition to winning in the Overall Best Open Source CMS category, WordPress was named first runner-up in the Best Open Source PHP CMS category.

Bravo!

A big congratulation to all those involved with Wordpress  in one or other way.

I am so surprised at the ite where it has been positioned. May be ewarlier keyboards meant for professional typists only. But now majority of keyboard users are novices like me ho look at keyboard when they type. [I have again pledged to learn typing by joining typing course but I know I am not going to do it before arrival of next year]

So while I type like a novice, I often press CAPS Lock button to find few words later a yelling phrase or sentence standing and looking at me in all CAPS.

There could be simple solution of putting it on topmost row near escape or something like that.

Till then
HAPPY CAPPING

As suggested by Microsoft,  you should run it on a secondary computer as it is a beta version only.

I did not use MS Office 2007 as I did not much like it. Let us see how is 2010.

Here is the link

Microsoft office 2010 Beta

I find it very painful when someone in the need of investigation refuses because she cannot afford it.

What do you do?

Investigations are costly. The investigations require equipments and gadgets that come at phenomenal cost.

It is a smooth work up when one nods yes and get investigated.

But the problem is for not so privileged ones.

This becomes a difficult situation.

You cannot treat a patient unless you diagnose her.

And you cannot get the requisite investigation because she cannot afford the costs.

In India, the health system follows (To say at least) model of Social Medicine.

Everyone can be treated freely. But the very concept of free treatment has resulted in its failure.

So called state sponsored hospitals are not chosen by many people because of the quality of services they offer.

I am not talking about competence of the doctors in this system. I am talking about the quality of the system.

Poor infrastructure, patient overload and lack of equipments.

Many a investigations are not available in the hospital. Those available are compromised because of  overload.

Modren day medicine has become very dependent upon the investigations. thanks to many laws that put a doctor at the receiving end. Litigations, consumer courts and social hostility makes one practice a defensive medicine.

So one orders investigation for documentary confirmation inspite of clinical judgement, just to be safe. This happens in quite number of cases.

This trend has really hurt those who cannot afford the investigation. Included are those in which investigation is a must.

There seems no end to this problem. And this is not limited to investigations only. Even the cost of treatment can be a huge burden that patient or family cannot afford to take.

I personally feel that all people must get the best treatment that science can afford to give them. But instead the it gets delivered to only those who can afford it.

How many patients that who need a hip replacement would get it done.

Very few.

Rest continue to bear the pain and decide to stay as they are. And this is just one example.

This causes a dismay but what to do. You can only offer the treatment.