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The Day After: Post-surgery reality and road to recovery

June 6, 2021 by thebengali

6.10 am I had a good night’s sleep. Am just coming awake and I can feel that I am going to be reminded of the full meaning of the phrase: the Day After. Yesterday was under post-surgery anaesthesia. Today is with post-surgery pain reality! For starters, my lower back / waist area is feeling strained and has a little pain, probably from lack of movement. Further, any involuntary movement to the left leg is giving me pain in the knee […]

Categories: Healthcare, Pune, Society • Tags: ACL Reconstruction Surgery, Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital Pune, Dr Avijan Sinha, Dr Shirish Pathak, Dr Sunil Mane, healthcare, India, physiotherapist, Pune, Sanjay Mukherjee, Self, Society, surgeon, surgery, thebengali

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Journey into an ACL Reconstruction Surgery

June 6, 2021 by thebengali

Diary notes from a patient’s journey into an ACL Reconstruction surgery at Mangeshkar Hospital, Pune, in pandemic times.

Categories: Healthcare, Pune, Self, Society • Tags: ACL Reconstruction Surgery, ACL Tear, COVID-19, Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital Pune, doctors, Dr Khurana, Dr Manjiri Ranade, Dr Shirish Pathak, Dr Sunil Mane, education, existentialism, healthcare, India, IV Tubes, knee, nurses, Operation Theatre, pandemic, Pune, Sachin Vyavahare, Sanjay Mukherjee, Self, surgery, thebengali

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Simla to Delhi: Evolution of an Educational Institution – A Brief History of The Union Academy

May 27, 2021 by thebengali

Union Academy School New Delhi emerged in the mid-1930s as a result of new educational ideals and the new needs of an evolving society engaged in the making of a new capital city: New Delhi.

Categories: Culture, Education, Journalism, Society • Tags: Bengali, Bengali Boys High School Shimla, Bombay, Calcutta, education, Harcourt Butler High School, India, Kolkata, Learning, Madras, Mumbai, New Delhi, Sanjay Mukherjee, Society, The Union Academy, thebengali

Experts advocate robust evidence-based study to establish use of ivermectin against COVID19

May 19, 2021 by thebengali

Interview with Dr Sandeep Khurana (Professor of Medicine at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine) and Dr Saurabh Mehandru (Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai), on the need for a proper study to establish possible use of ivermectin in treatment of COVID-19.

Categories: Healthcare, Media, News, Science & Technology • Tags: COVID-19, Dr Sandeep Khurana, Dr Saurabh Mehandru, Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, Goa, healthcare, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, India, ivermectin, New York, prophylaxis, Pune, research, SARS Cov2, symptoms, thebengali, treatment, treatment guidelines

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Photograph of Pune-based guitar maestro, Derek Julien, in concert.

Guitar legend Derek Julien checks out at 70

April 25, 2021 by thebengali

Renowned Pune-based musician, Derek Julien, passed away at Jehangir Hospital, Pune, due to post-COVID pneumonia. He was 70.

Categories: Journalism, News, People, Pune, The Arts • Tags: Airwave, Azure Hades, blues, blues musician, COVID, COVID-19, Derek Julien, guitar, guitar legend, India, Jazz, Mumbai, musician, obituary, Pune, Roger Dragonette, thebengali, Waterfront

The Best Days of My Life

May 25, 2020 by thebengali

The Best Days of My Life.

The trick they say is not to be attached to your self or your self image, or to the pedestal that our ego puts us on. And just stay in the now, always.

But how?
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Categories: Learning, Philosophy, Self, Training • Tags: existentialism, India, Learning, Life, Pune, Sanjay Mukherjee, Self, Society, The Self, thebengali