A few years ago a colleague told us a story. She and her relative had a joint bank account. Once when she went to deposit a cheque of her relative’s, the bank told her that the latter’s name did not exist in the account! Our colleague happened to have an old pay in slip with the relative’s name and showed it to the clerk. The clerk did not know how to handle this, and asked a senior official for help. The senior had worked for the bank in the days of manual operations. He figured out what could have been…

An Event: In 2010, I had conducted a PubMed workshop. At the end, a doctor asked me” “Can you do a half day program for practitioners, where they learn how to search all resources to actually treat a patient?" And I answered – “Doctor, would you ask for a change for the MBBS  to be a one year course?” He got my message and smiled. My next action: I had then posted the above on social media. And one of the comments I got from a doctor friend abroad was this: Vasu, I think a lot of people interested in…