Comments for It's a Miracle!

Comment on How to talk with an Indian accent by blahblah

blahblah — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:22:57 +0000

Why are we so complex about our Indian/Pakistani accents.Look at English and American people they can not speak a word from Hindi at least we try to speak their language.

Comment on A father winces as his son is vaccinated. by yogeshgk

yogeshgk — Thu, 10 May 2012 02:15:43 +0000

Haha.. I fade in and out based on the whims and fancies of the Great Firewall of China. Hopefully will be back on a little more regularly.

Comment on A father winces as his son is vaccinated. by Anirban

Anirban — Thu, 10 May 2012 02:05:32 +0000

Beautiful thoughts, well articulated. You were missed, Yogesh, as you disappeared from the face of the digitaloshpere. Very glad you’re back. My best wishes to you, Anirban.

Comment on A father winces as his son is vaccinated. by yogeshgk

yogeshgk — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:50:23 +0000

Good post Anirban. I grappled with the same question on vaccines a year and a half ago. I grappled with the same question six months ago when I decided to make the temporary move to China. One will always wonder what the ramifications of a decision would be.Small decisions “Does he need the monkey cap? Is it too windy? Should we go out at all?”. Medium term decisions ” Is a mundan really necessary?” Far reaching ones “Imported or local vaccine?”, “What language should we talk to him in?”, ” Should we pierce his ears?”. Nonsensical ones “Does it really matter if he wears a pink sleepsuit at night which says ‘Mommy’s little girl’ ?”

At the end of the day, as parents we can never be really sure of the decisions we make. Most of the time we have a throw it and see what sticks approach and in most cases, the decisions turn out to being alright and rarely cause major issues. But lets not forget; the decision making process is an intuitive one as much as it is learned one from our environment and our own experiences.

Enjoy fatherhood, Anirban, cherish every moment. You will soon long for the time when your son is younger. You’d soon wish that you could have spent more time watching you baby bat away at that dangling toy. You’d soon wish that you had held him one more time as he crawled on his stomach. You will not even know that you will miss these moments until they are long past.

Comment on A father winces as his son is vaccinated. by Roshni

Roshni — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:42:42 +0000

I understand, Anirban…I am telling you what is accepted anecdotally. I really don’t think it is as complicated or mysterious as the authors profess

Comment on A father winces as his son is vaccinated. by Anirban

Anirban — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:16:36 +0000

SIDS is a syndrome -a collection of ailments for which the statistical probability can be reduced. However, it cannot be completed avoidable as by definition, the cause is unknown. Suffocation is not the likely cause of death as only ~10% of such cases can be attributable to intentional or accidental asphyxia. "A causal role for mild infection in sudden infant death is suggested by reports that in approximately half of SIDS cases, the infants have a seemingly trivial infection around the time of death, as well as mild tracheobronchial inflammation and altered serum immunoglobulin or cytokine levels and the presence of microbial isolates at autopsy. In infants who die unexpectedly of infection, the given organism may precipitate a lethal cytokine cascade or toxic response. If all specific causes of infant death are delineated, the designations SUID and SIDS will no longer be needed." Via Kinney and Thatch (2009) New England Journal of Medicine. If we know the cause, or likely the causes for this group of diseases and can prevent or treat it, it will cease to be called SIDS.

Comment on A father winces as his son is vaccinated. by Roshni

Roshni — Tue, 08 May 2012 18:14:04 +0000

SIDS is a loose term of infants dying of suffocation from blankets, pillows, over-soft mattresses, or, if they are co-sleeping with their parents, from being crushed by an adult weight. Most of the time, it is completely avoidable.

Comment on Is Rabindranath Tagore relevant today? by trikarn

trikarn — Tue, 08 May 2012 12:18:26 +0000

if you consider how mahakavis are constituted, they are same all over the world.
they express same thoughts, wherever they are situated, of course tempered by local customs and manners.
on the whole they enrich our life.

Comment on Is Rabindranath Tagore relevant today? by Aniruddha

Aniruddha — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:50:26 +0000

Very often, Anirban, I have paused to ponder what made RNT, an unschooled lad, who should have been a spoilt brat, become a mesmeriser. The answers, I suppose, are that he (a) had it in his genes, (b) was a fluke – a precursor of Homo sapiens superior, (c) operated in a near vacuum of his time and space. Do they ever satisfy you?
What I find irritating is the way we, Bongs, including government bodies, celebrate Rabindra-Najrul-Sukanta sandhya in every street corner in the most amateurish manner. The point is how many of us truly appreciate him for what he was, without gaping in awe?

Comment on How to get rich by selling “homemade” rudraksha seeds by Anirban

Anirban — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:45:30 +0000

Thanks