Your Hospital Can Make You Sick

Way back in the early 90’s, Dr Ravi Batra, a noted economist made a startling prediction, touting India as the next superpower. Incredulous as we were, it sent a ripple of excitement and was a hot topic of discussion for months to come. Twenty years later we are still hoping. But wait, there is a spark of hope. So what if we are light years away from being a global giant, we have managed to produce a bug so super that it has the world running scared. Scientists in a UK based research laboratory have tracked down to Indian hospitals a drug-resistant bug that infects patients and causes multiple organ failures. The super-bug resistant to almost all known antibiotics, has been graciously named “New Delhi metallo”, NDM-I for short. NDM-I makes several serious infections antibiotic resistant, leaving you with no cure. Well, New Delhi is famous, so what if it’s for all the wrong reasons.

India is not amused with the Lancet report and has reacted along expected lines, calling the report a conspiracy and an attack on medical tourism. The government has even hinted that the report is biased, as a drug company was among its funders, while conveniently choosing to ignore the fact that the two of the authors are from Apollo which pioneered medical tourism in India.

And rubbing salt on to our wounds is an advisory from Britain’s national tourism agency, which labels Indians as impatient and unhuggable. The 2012 Olympics handbook further goes on to describe Indians as a race that regards British food with suspicion. That I will whole heartedly agree with, with the food so bland and over priced we have all the reasons to be suspicious. But seriously, after staying on for 200 years as uninvited guests in our country, these blokes still think we are impatient?

Researchers of the other variety have found, women spend an average of 2 ½ years of their adult life cooking. Men, it has been found spend 14 minutes more a day in the kitchen, but they don’t cook. And when they do, it is usually for themselves. Strangely even after all this slogging, women still find time to try on more than 21,000- items of clothing in their lifetime-but actually buy half of them. Obviously, you don’t marry each guy you date? Sadly if the woman is too busy earning rather than cooking and happens to earn more than her partner, heartbreak awaits her. If your boy friend or husband is earning less than you are, he is most likely to cheat on you. Cheating apparently is a man’s way of trying to restore his gender identity when he feels, it is under threat. Damn, we women never have it good. Don’t earn and perish in the kitchen or earn and perish of a broken heart.


But girls don’t despair, here’s how you can keep your spirits high. Log on to Baronbob.com and place an order for “wine rack”. Now this is no ordinary wine rack but a bra that can store a full bottle of wine! You can drink through an attached tube and even inflate it to enhance your contours. I love what your undergarment can do for you. In the kitchen or in the office, life will seem so much rosier. Hic hic hurray to that.