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Hospitals are great levelers in many ways. Brings you face to face with mortality, of the uncertainties of life and death ! The trauma of suffereing , of old age and sickness and the passive patience with which people wait for a diagnosis..theirs or for their own ! Amid all this Bhaskar as always kept reminding of the transitoriness of life, of giving up on my obsessions with "dusts and musts" and losing weight and getting back to a healthy  lifestyle that will not see me back to the hospital! Going back to the hospital after 22 odds years was nostalgic in some ways ! I showed Chibu the Delivery Suite where he was born and the Phototherapy unit where he was treated for jaundice.I shared room with a young mother who gave birth to a baby girl yesterday. The little one kept everyone including me on their toes  the whole night and we took turns to rock the imp who could turn her face into a flexi-5 before breaking into a scream !It was nice to see the parents sharing tender mo

Another year- will complete my half century on this earth! My friends are already planning what to wear for the party , while I am not even sure if  it is an occasion worth celebrating ! Life has been easy on me of late, in many ways kind- cushioning the hard times with some good and some very good times ! Of course for me there are no pure good moments - even on holidays I have had times which have been fraught with tensions - but then it was like a dream to visit Africa ! Even now when I watch the Animal Planet and National Geographic I am amazed that I lived my dream....And Benaras after 30 years was another wish fulfilment- like walking down the memory lane The other high was Chibu clearing the first interview of  his life- the call at 4.45a.m just before I was leaving home. The uncertainties remain - but at last the little crab is coming out of his shell ! My horoscope predicts travel and adventure - sigh! This is what I am precisely giving up... But then I always say family is