Author: Anil Malik

Friends, we all must  have gone through the experience of when your near and dear one is admitted to hospital for some surgery, or is involved in accident and has lost lots of blood. First thing the medical staff of hospital informs the patient’s relatives or friends that arrange for so many units of blood from the blood bank of the hospital or from private blood banks. Most of the times the blood banks have the required group blood, but before issuing the blood they ask the concerned persons to arrange for donors to replace the blood. This practice of asking blood replacement is going on for decades  in all of the blood banks across the country. The family of the patients continue to suffer under the coercive demands of the blood banks and the hospitals that are treating patient. They continue to be blackmailed and harassed into getting blood…

Friends, sometimes we all wonder how some people get rich and others with all their efforts and hard work can not achieve their goal of getting rich. So there must be something extra in those people who succeed and become rich. Warren Buffet is one of the richest men in the world, during one of his talks with the writer who wrote his biography, he shared some rules which one should follow for becoming rich. So here are 10 rules recommended by Warren Buffet , which should be followed by young businessmen for succeeding and becoming rich 1 Reinvest your Profits When you first make money, you may be tempted to spend. Don’t instead reinvest these profits. Buffet learned this early on. In high school, he and his pal brought a pinball machine to put in a barber shop. With the money they earned, they bought more machines, and soon…

While going through today’s newspaper, I came across a term called “MEDICAL GASLIGHTING”. I had never heard of this term before, so tried to find out more about this term, which I want to share with you all. Medical Gaslighting is a term used to describe doctors or medical practitioners who wrongly blame a ‘patient’s illness or symptoms on psychological factors, or deny a patient’s illness entirely, like wrongly telling the patient they are not sick. Gaslighting refers to the type of manipulation where the intent is to lead someone to question their own experiences, memory, or perceptions. It is also viewed as emotional abuse. The effects of gaslighting are that people often begin to question their own reality or may feel crazy, particularly if the person gaslighting them has the greater authority or personal power. Now in medical cases, people feel that as doctors have more knowledge on the…

In the present times the film making business in Bollywood is becoming riskier, as now no film maker can guarantee the success of films. Many times a film made with big budget and big star cast  fails to impress the audience, and the film flops miserably. On the other hand some times a film made with low budget and not big/known star cast becomes huge hit, when you compare its budget and revenue collected at box office. In the last few years trend is changing, and some low budget films are collecting a good revenue at the box office. Take the film ‘Tanu Weds Manu’, it did not have big names, but the critics and audience applauded the film, and it ended up grossing over Rs 150 Cr at the box office. Here are most successful low budget films of recent times: 1 Paan Singh Tomar  (2012) The biopic on…

All of us have some days when we feel lots of discomfort because something we ate did not agree with our system. This leads to heartburn and then we reach for antacid tablets or syrups for some relief. In India, acidity-related diseases are very common. Some researchers have attributed this prevalence to spicy food, and non-vegetarian dietary factors. An occasional acidity issue is not a cause to worry at all. But, when it becomes a regular issue, and almost every meal troubles us, there could be chances of GERD or gastroesophageal reflux disease. It is a disease wherein stomach acid can enter the oesophagus and cause heartburn and discomfort. Having acidity-related symptoms more than twice a week could be an indicator of this disease. Causes Typical reasons or risk factors for GERD are Eating heavy meals, and laying down after a meal. Obesity, bending over after a large meal, snacking…

Friends, for the last few days you must be reading in newspapers or hearing from news channels about the controversy related to DOLO 650 medicine. Dolo 650 has become a household name when it comes to fever or common flu medication. The company reached its high point during the Covid 19 pandemic, when doctors started prescribing and recommending this tablet as the medication for any mild symptoms, even in case of a person contacting Covid this was recommended for patients with other medicines. Dolo 650 became popular because it contained 650 mg of paracetamol as compared to 500mg of paracetamol in other similar drugs like Crocin, Metacin, etc. The company that manufactured Dolo 650 tablets Micro Labs Bangaluru, had its profits soaring during the peak of the coronavirus outbreak, so much that the medicine became a meme on social media due to its frequent use in Indian households. When the…

Friends, there have been many hues and cries when CBI raided the premises of  Delhi’s Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, along with many of his associates and officials in connection with corruption charges related to changes in liquor excise policy. Now, what were the changes made to Delhi’s existing liquor policy by the AAP government? The new liquor policy was proposed in 2020 and implemented in November 2021, when the city of Delhi was reeling from pandemics. It changed the manner in which liquor was sold, earlier the liquor business was a state-controlled entity with no private players. Only government controlled-owned liquor vendors were permitted to sell liquor. Earlier there were four government corporations that ran 475 liquor stores. Under the new policy, 849 liquor selling licenses were awarded to private companies through bidding. Delhi was divided into 32 zones and a total of 27 private vendors were allowed to liquor…

In today’s weekend blog, I am back to Bollywood, and I am talking about Romantic Comedy (ROM-COM) films. We all have a complicated relationship with rom-coms. They are easy to watch and distract us from the intense monotony of daily life. At the same time, most of them set unrealistic standards for love and relationship. Over the last few decades, Bollywood has given us many iconic rom-coms . These films always have catchy music with evergreen songs. Here are 10 rom-com films that stood the test of time: 1 Jab We Met More than their meeting inside a train, the irony of this film’s lead couple splitting right after the release makes it memorable. Kareena Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor broke up after several years of dating and this film gave us all the chance to see them together last time. Not to forget it gave us iconic songs like Mauja…

In India, till a few years back most sports associations in India were controlled by politicians, who used to hold the post of chairman/president or secretary of a particular sports association for many many years and even decades, and this resulted in the lowering of standards of sports persons. A few years back Supreme Court intervened, and it was decided no person can hold any post in any sports association for more than three terms, and not more than two consecutive terms in any post. Actually, all this started when there was a betting scandal in IPL cricket matches a few years back. There is news today that the All Indian Football Federation (AIFF) has been suspended by the Federation of Internationale Football Association (FIFA) for “undue interference by the third party”. This is because since 18th May 2022 AIFF is run by a three-member committee of administration (COA), and…

English is one of the most widely used languages in the world. But it is also called a language with few variants there is a lot of difference between English which is used by the British, and what is used by Americans.  It has so happened that this language is being used in mainly two variants in the world, is British English and other is American English, and there are many countries in the world that use the English language in daily use, but their English is filled with slang words, which are not dictionary words, and their pronunciation is also quite different from people speaking British or American English. In India, we mainly follow British English. There are plenty of words from British and American English that basically means the same. Like when someone asks for a bill, the waiter looks at that person like he is not aware…