Neglected Serendipity

Thank you, Life!

Ketan — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:44:31 +0000

“I realized I’d started thinking of how perfect life could have been had everything been going right, and then I realized that what we have been experiencing, currently are and will be experiencing in the future is too wonderful and making such an assessment on the lines of “could have been” would be unfair and [...]

Please Board the Train!

Ketan — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:00:59 +0000

When I had cajoled you into boarding the train and told you we would be alright, I later realized my words were completely empty. My gestures were only an attempt to transfer all the strength I had to you so that you could face the moment, look forward to the life that was immediately going [...]

In Response to ‘Relation Limbo’ by Khamba

Ketan — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:55:30 +0000

Relationship Limbo (click) is a blog post by G. Khamba, and this post is in response to what he writes and asks there (and it can be taken as actually addressing him). I was unaware of the term ‘relationship limbo’, but I was certainly aware of the phenomenon, the way it is felt in one’s [...]

Of Confrontations in Close Relationships and Importance of Honest Communication

Ketan — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:36:08 +0000

Yesterday night I had had a phone conversation with my good friend after about 7 months, and any serious conversation between us had taken place even more than 9 months back. He is still in a committed relationship with the same person he was with nine months back, which in all is around two years [...]

Freedom – to the balloon, or to that which it entraps?

Ketan — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:01:59 +0000

A balloon is not a piece of rubber filled with air; it is a closed space filled with virtually infinite numbers of molecules, atoms, subatomic particles, photons and what not, all of them with their own respective direction and momentum, ‘unmindful’ of the direction and momentum of others around. It is all chaos, and we [...]

So, ‘WHO’ is against NOKIA? CNN!

Ketan — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:29:02 +0000

Taken from: WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk – CNN.com (click) Filed under: Humor, Mass media, Mobile technology, Picture posts, Short Posts Tagged: Cancer, Carcinogenesis, Cell phones, CNN, Mobile phones, Nokia

Comment left on this Blog on Agricultural Reforms in Gujarat, and My Thoughts

Ketan — Sat, 28 May 2011 22:31:03 +0000

A few weeks back, I had tweeted the following about a news report titled – ‘Gujarat does a double!’ (click): http://tinyurl.com/3uz4cmd – Agriculture in Gujarat grew at 16.7%. Important question is: did *all* (the kind of) farmers register a growth?— Ketan Panchal (@KetPan) May 19, 2011 I was pleasantly surprised to find an elaborate response [...]

Fukushima Reactors, Nuclear Energy and My Views

Ketan — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 21:15:04 +0000

Disclosures and disclaimers: 1. There is a mild conflict of interest when it comes to peaceful uses of nuclear energy, because I am training to become a nuclear medicine physician, and a part of my livelihood would depend upon functioning of ‘research’ nuclear reactors (which are much ‘smaller’ compared to nuclear power plants – the [...]

Why Try to ‘Preserve’ Tradition? Yes, it’s a Rhetorical Question.

Ketan — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:00:27 +0000

What follows is derived and modified from my comments at various blog posts (written by me as well as by others). As those comments were in different contexts and not in continuity, some of the points have got repeated. I do not understand why should I feel proud of something which was developed without my [...]

In Response to OPEN articele – “Why Money Loves Modi …and why he still can’t make it work for him in national politics”

Ketan — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:25:48 +0000

This post is based on an article published on the web site of the OPEN Magazine titled Why Money Loves Modi …and why he still can’t make it work for him in national politics (click). It feels weird to publish two back-to-back posts highlighting the propagandist methods used by the Indian national media to show [...]