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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

A Hard Day Gives Way to a Moment of Peace

April 30, 2021 by thebengali

11.10 am Work is heavy. And hectic as always. Which is good. But news of the death of people due to COVID or of critical situation due to the infection is just a text or phone call away. I have friends in COVID ICU. Family members in regular ICU. Family friends just back from hospital and in excruciating pain. And every day there’s someone else on that list. 13.15 pm Am struggling right now. Struggling to walk, struggling to sit, […]

Categories: Nature, Self • Tags: existentialism, Learning, Pune, rain, Sanjay Mukherjee, Self, thebengali, thunder, thunderstorm

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One Last Everlasting Note

April 25, 2021 by thebengali

Ode to Derek Julien, India’s finest guitar player.

Categories: Journalism, Media, People, Poetry, Pune, The Arts • Tags: Derek Julien, guitar, lyric, Music, ode, Poem, Pune, Sanjay Mukherjee, thebengali

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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