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“Take Her To Another Hospital” Max Hospital Emergency Didn’t Give Treatment...
A 63 year old patient with severe fluid in both lungs, rapidly decreasing oxygen saturation (90 to 85 to 81 percent within few hours) and increasing breathing trouble was not given any treatment at Max...
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Cancer The Misfortune That Fell On Us
3rd April 2017 Cancer. Not a disease but a culture. A major story twist. The deadly misfortune has been part of the most tragic films and literature. Mostly it would be the male protagonist, he falls...
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To Chemo Or Not To Chemo?
11th April 2017 Cancer is a disease. Chemo is a treatment. Quality time with family is a utopia. We are at the juncture now where we have to decide whether to give chemotherapy to mother or not. The...
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Her Lungs Are Giving Up But She Won’t, She Will Survive
14th/April Morning: 17th March to today, mom’s condition is worsening so rapidly, I didn’t know it’s possible for any disease to aggravate so quickly. We have no time at all. All her body functions and...
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To Intubate or Not to Intubate?
15th April 2017 My mother wishes everybody a happy Bengali new year. She told me to put it up on her Facebook. Talk about patient – doctor trust and relationship, mother’s attending doctor didn’t even...
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She Died Within Few Hours of Going on Ventilator
17th April 1.38 pm Exactly a month ago, on 17th March mother walked out of home for routine check up with symptoms no more than of common cold. This morning she went into ventilator. They say putting...
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13 Days Of Mourning & Healing Not Without Guilt
21st April The last time I had a conversation with mom about my career, studies she told me to drop the idea of getting a full time job. She said, “You don’t have to worry about money. You just do good...
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When a Pillar Falls The Building Crumbles, The Family Falls Apart
26th April I have said and done a lot of hurtful things to my mother for which I am repenting today, will repent forever. But so has everyone else. My father, my sister. Such is life, we fight, we make...
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Five Stages of Dying
Several moments from the hit TV series House M.D. the philosophy of helped me hold myself together during the last one month of mother’s approaching death. Particularly Episode 1 of Season 2,...
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Remembering Mother’s Sadness This Mother’s Day
My mother was sad. She lived with a feeling of personal dissatisfaction and un-fulfillment. A lot of them. While the whole world would say Mita is so happy all the time, she is bursting with laughter...
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No Raveena Tandon, You Have Not Been Trolled, And Ramayana is Not History
Raveena Tandon the 90s Bollywood actress is the new Hindutva icon in town. She is following the foot steps of her fellow Bollywood celebrities who have recently been blessed by BJP party tickets,...
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Why Rahul Easwar Is Outraging Over Sanjukta Basu’s Feminist Joke?
Samast virat sanskari people of akhand bharat outraging over a marriage joke I shared in 2009. Eight years. Why? Coming up. In a thread of 22 tweets I explained what kind of low regressive narrow...
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Sharia courts have no place in UK family law. Listen to women who know |...
This article makes some important points about secular feminist movement at one hand and marginalized women in Muslim community. The Sharia Law has no place in any civilized community, be it UK or...
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What have Sanjukta Basu Said About Virat Kohli, Dick and In What Context?
Much sanskari outrage over a tweet I made a year ago, in which I question a vengeance seeking masculine mob blaming Anushka Sharma, for the bad performance of Virat Kohli. As if, he was playing cricket...
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BJP Trolls Pull Out 8 yr Old Tweet To Shed Fake Tears For Mayawati
The amount of efforts right wing troll are putting in to 1) Intimidate me 2) Question the credibility of my entire identity and opinion, I wonder is it even worth it? Have I really done something so...
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Star Jalsha Series Jai Kali Kalkatta Wali Trailer: Deals with Domestic...
Forthcoming Star Jalsha series, Jai Kali Kalkatta Wali has a very exciting trailer. A typical domesticated Bengali woman, probably upper caste, as most serials on Bengali TV are, all decked up in...
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Abdul Gafoor Tufani Is A Muslim Man
Abdul Gafoor Tufani is a Muslim man. He has come to Delhi with a mission. Abdul comes from district Araria, a very backward region in Bihar. It is a largely rural Muslim dominated district with around...
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FOP Leave Policy Introduced By Media Company Aiming Internet Entertainment...
Culture Machine, a young start up with a network of YouTubers connecting 22 million subscribers and an average of 0.5 billion views per month, creates video content for large corporate brands and helps...
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Right Wing Trolls Spreading Lies About Me Using Fake Photos
This is my fourth blog post about how for the last 4 months the right wing trolls have been harassing me. It is an open secret that the right wing trolls are supported by BJP IT Cell, ok allegedly, and...
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Kerala High Court Confirms Love Jihad Bogey But Where Are Women Bodies...
An edited version of this piece first appeared on The Wire The Kerala High Court in a recent judgement has stripped women of every last bit of agency, self-will, self-determination and reduced us to...
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