Rya writes.....

Metro kadhal Usually my Chennai trip would be ultrashort, I will be landing in morning and departing the day evening, occasionally an extended one night two day trip. I usually have a fear of traffic while travelling to Chennai. During the past two or three of my visits to Chennai, I had been using metro. So this time, once I landed up there in Chennai Egmore, I went straight to the metro station and there I got a tourist card for rupees 150, of which rupees 50 is a refundable deposits, with which we can travel multiple times in a day. After a quick scanning of my belongings and myself, I was allowed inside the station. The hanging hoardings directed me towards the platforms with numbers one and two. A quick glance made me understand, to which platform I need to go. From Egmore to Teynampet, we need to switch trains from green line to blue line at the central metro station. The transit between Egmore and Central was within blink of an eye. At the central metro, Looking at the destinati...

Walking down the memory lane takes me to the corridors of our school. On getting down from the school bus, I walked through it to my classroom with my backpack and lunch bag. The trees in breeze greeted us.    The well lit, ventilated, clean classrooms with green color windows and doors are evergreen in my thoughts. As the first bell goes, we gathered for the assembly. The assembly was not just a prayer ritual! Each day was special. Monday to Thursday we assembled class wise and on Fridays house wise. We had national flag or school flag hoisting and salutation, Thought for the day, News for the week, quiz etc. After the assembly, walking back to classes through main stairs resembled diverging zipper as boys and girls climbed through the bifurcating stairs. Two or three of us shared a bench and desk depending upon the size. The teachers along with our academics taught us life lessons which have taken us to these heights. Each time when we fell down in the play ground, it instil...

 In the casualty or Emergency Medicine Department, a person may be produced by police with a requisition or memo from a police officer not below the rank of sub inspector of police or with a requisition from magistrate to examine and certify for drunkenness. Drunkenness certificate is written in a serially numbered register in duplicate , original being handed over to the police and duplicate retained in record for future reference. For persons brought for drunkenness certificate AR or MLR entry need not be made if there are no injuries and no history of trauma.  As in any case the person brought for drunkenness certificate need to be registered in casualty OP register with date, time, name, age, sex and brought by whom. In the Drunkenness certificate write legibly with out any overwriting and corrections. 1. Name of doctor examining the person 2. Hospital name 3. Person name, age, sex and address 4. Sent with memo number or requisition no.and details 5. From whom 6. Accompani...

 A lady to be admired for teaching us life lessons! The real success in one's life is not in reaching heights in profession, gaining name and fame in society but in leading a successful family life, standing with spouse in tough times and rearing children to stand on their own earning and getting them into hands of a life partner at right time and leaving behind traces of fondful memories in everyone known. No doubt mommammai has led a very successful life, though her life since childhood had  thorns and obstacles, her perseverance and courage taught her the art of sensing the smell of roses amidst the thorns. May be she has genetically instilled into us her managerial characteristics and many more good qualities making all of us to be with head up in this competitive world!! Gifted are our kids having been with her blessed presence!!!

  A person may be brought to hospital casualty or Emergency Medicine Department by police personnel before remand by a magistrate, or after remand before admission into jail with a proforma of physical screening of remand prisoner.  Before remand a person brought by police personnel should be examined only with a requisition by the investigating officer or the magistrate ( if requested by the person to be remanded). This is as per section 53 CrPC and section 54 CrPC respectively. Section 53 in The Code Of Criminal Procedure, 1973 53. Examination of accused by medical practitioner at the request of police officer. (1) When a person is arrested on a charge of committing an offence of such a nature and alleged to have been committed under such circumstances that there are reasonable grounds for believing that an examination of his person will afford evidence as to the commission of an offence, it shall be lawful for a registered medical practitioner, acting at the request of a po...

 I thought of posting this on the day of Varun's birthday but unfortunately I couldn't do it.  Theni brothers, varun and saran, both of them are still mocked especially by VK and both would agree that it's all for fun and not intentional to taunt them!  I could remember many events around varun but hardly a few with regards to saran! I don't know how much varun would remember. Once when you came to Tiruchendur you loved eating refrigerated water melons. As the fridge at our home was at fault, you went to our neighbour and asked to keep your share in their fridge and said that you would come back and get it after they are chilled! Also you loved wearing perippa's wrist watch, so we got a white with purple electronic watch from Bangalore! At Rathinam mama house, you call him "Mill mama" and argue with him that Theni is bigger and better than Madurai! We loved enjoying your justifications and paybacks.  Also once when Mohandas chithappa took all of us to exhi...

Solar eclipse Dec 26 2019  Today had an opportunity to witness a part of annular solar eclipse. As it was around 9:00 am the sky was growing dark just like in dusk. I didn't have polarized sunglasses but had chance to see with X ray films but yesterday video cautioned me not to do so.. But out of curiosity, as i was walking towards my superior's office ( where i made a purpose visit to go out in sun ), i looked into a puddle of water stagnant on the floor to see sun's reflection in it. Wow! Lifetime feast! Sun in the shape of a crescent!!But the same fear made me to take off my eyes from it. Then i went and took a out patient slip used in dot matrix printer with holes on sides and when I made the sun shadow to fall through the holes on sides another spectacular site, an array of semilunar sun!! A patient who passed by me was also able to appreciate ! If i remember well i think we had an experience some years back on a Diwali day, when appa tried to show me and Senthil with ...