Yesterday’s mini crossword by NYT inspired this one!
Read this ‘POEM’
There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, “It is just as I feared!— Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!”
Something caught your attention?
How about this one? This is much more popular and may be called the prototype of this type of poem!
There once was a man from Nantucket, Who kept all his cash in a bucket. But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man, And as for the bucket, Nantucket!
These are called! Limericks!
You can see the RHYME pattern! By the way did you know that LIMERICK is the name of a place!?
Haven’t I always told that history is an ocean and what we know is a drop! (Ok ok! That was Baba and it was about knowledge!)
So anyway coming back to LIMERICKS!
Limericks are short, funny poems with five lines and an AABBA rhyme scheme! Which means that the lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme AAA and lines 3 and 4 rhyme or BB! Which is why they are called the AABBA scheme! Nothing to do with one of my group the ABBAs!
It is understood that they likely started in 18th-century English taverns as impromptu drinking songs.
The name comes from an Irish chorus, “Will you come up to Limerick?”
Irish Roots: In the 1700s, Gaelic poets in County Limerick, Ireland, wrote drinking songs using this rhythm. The chorus often invited listeners to visit the city of Limerick!
The style crossed the sea to English taverns and pubs.
Artist Edward Lear made limericks famous with his 1846 book, A Book of Nonsense. He wrote silly poems that usually started and ended with a place name!
Now remember that since it has origins in a bar and after a DRINK or two; Limericks are often NAUGHTY (read vulgar!) and Mature (read adult and dirty!)! Then again nothing stops you from writing a clean one!
There once was a man from Bangalore! Who had love and patience Galore! He progressed at a steady rate! Now staying in Kuwait! You know who I am sure!
Make your own and send me! We can have a Limerick laugh!
Then you can listen to the two best songs in kannada starring Golden star Ganesh; anisutide and Dwapara!
No! That is not the time it takes for your wife to get ready in your dreams! I don’t have that complaint since I know it takes time for a DIAMOND to form!
It is related to the doctor patient relationship!
The other day one patient had an issue with one ear; so I asked from how many days she has the issue; she then started talking about another issue!
That is when the 11 secod rule comes!
Studies show that doctors let patients speak for an average of just 11 seconds before interrupting them!
You may find it rude! But it is not so! I have often told that your doctor does not have the solutions for all your problems! Even he or she is under the watch! There is a sword of litigation hanging over him for every case!
In about 67% of medical visits, the doctor interjects to steer the conversation!
Meanwhile, the average appointment lasts about 15 to 18 minutes but then that is mixed with examination and other aspects of the consultation.
Some key facts of an average doctor patient interactions are:
The 11-Second Rule: A Journal of General Internal Medicine study found doctors interrupt patients in the first 11 seconds as stated above!
Family Doctors: Family doctors listen a little longer, an average of 19 seconds.
So what about specialists!? The more SPECIALZED you are the lesser is the time to INTERRUPT!
Specialists: Specialists interrupt even faster, usually within just a few seconds! A specialist may interrupt in less than 10 seconds! A super specialist even less! Now do not ask about the super duper specialist!
Then again what happens when you DO NOT interrupt?
Research published in BMJ shows that if patients are not interrupted, 78% finish explaining their main concerns within just two minutes!
So do we wait for two minutes! Many times we do WAIT! But that purely depends on the patience of the doctor and the number of PATIENTS in the waiting room!
Then again please do understand that doctors are not trying to be rude!
They are often pressured by heavy daily patient schedules and need to gather specific facts to make a diagnosis quickly. They also spend a large portion of their time typing notes into the computer since the maintenance of electronic records are more important than even diagnosis!
All in between the by stander trying to steer his or her symptoms in between for a PARALEL consultation and the complaints going from head to the TOE!
Any miss or mistype here can be more dangerous so at this point it is paramount not to INTERRUPT the doctor here!
What everyone needs to understand is that our BODY is our responsibility! Also our body is not a machine! You cannot do a regular SERVICING and assume that you are good to go for the next 10000 KMs!
So the next time you get interrupted; don’t worry! The GPS in the doctor’s voice will guide you safely to the required destination!
So wishing all my brothers and sisters and friends a very happy doctors day with a sketch of the legendary Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy!
Did you forget something! That’s normal! But you should not forget that you forgot! There is a bird which does that!
Then again you have animals who have memory as low as three seconds! Felt better already? Or did you forget what we were writing about!?
One of the most pets are the Hamsters! their short-term memory span lasts only up to 3 seconds! They can even forget what they were doing mid-action!
Then you have your cousins from your wife’s side! (He he!) The chimpanzees! Despite their high intelligence, chimpanzees have a remarkably poor short-term memory. Studies show their retention span is roughly 20 seconds, which is shorter than that of rats!
Then you have the most precious species in the world the bees! While bees have exceptional navigational and spatial memories for finding flowers, their broader memory capabilities are incredibly limited, ranking as some of the shortest among tested species!
Finally you have the Dogs! In cognitive testing, dogs typically forget the details of a specific event or action within two minutes, though they retain long-term, routine-based memories!
Even the forgetful fish in the movie series of Finding Nemo is closer to the truth than you think or forgot!
In all these though you must know this really funny bird!
This was observed by author Douglas Adams.
He famously described the critically endangered, flightless New Zealand parrot (the kākāpō) by saying it had not only forgotten how to fly, but it had “forgotten that it had forgotten how to fly”.
Now these it evolved in isolation on predator-free islands, the kākāpō lost its need to fly and became a giant, ground-dwelling bird. Basically it could fly but since that was due to the protection against predators there was no need now to fly! Also flying is like exercise; it takes work! Then again if you used to work out a lot before and you stop then you will get FAT! Which is what happened to these birds!
BUT they forgot! Especially when stressed like humans! So the result is rather clumsy!
When panic sets in a scared kākāpō will sometimes run up a tree and jump! It will then stretch out its wings and try to FLY! Then it does not matter that it has forgotten to fly or remembered that it has forgotten to fly or forgotten that it has forgotten to fly! In any case it will fall down like a brick! If the distance is not much it would then gather all of what is left of its self respect and WALK!
So next time you forget; just do not be a KAKAPO!
Then again you may not forget so often if you are a brilliant scientist like Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao!
Now remember to not to forget to turning off the gas and light before you sleep!
This was a song made by an Indian composer sung in Russia and used to identify an American Spy!
Sounds like a Ken Follet novel in the tune of the Man from St Petersberg!?
First we must know if you know the song or not!
More importantly the second line!
One of the first major hits of Mithun Da; this movie song picturised on him did not even have him singing or dancing!
In our KV days the name called out in the song was one of the most common name for a pet dog! We used to tease that the lead actress was calling out to Mithun da like we call a pet!
It was such a famous song that even those who do not know hindi knew the song! At least that was the case in KV! That too at least the first two lines!
The movie is Disco Dancer and no! The song is not Disco dancer which is also a famous peppy number though!
The song you have to think of is “Jimmy Jimmy Aaja Aaja” by the legendary Indian composer Bappi Lahiri (affectionately known as Bappi Da).
Everyone know’s Jimmy Jimmy! I think! Of at least heard of it!
But you may not know that the song became a cult in Russia in the 1980s! If you were in Russia during that time then you will know the song! It was actually a cultural phenomenon!
The song, sung by Parvati Khan for the 1982 Bollywood movie Disco Dancer, became a massive sensation in the Soviet Union after the film was released there in 1984. It sold over 120 million tickets, and virtually everyone in the country knew the track by heart!
Now comes the very interesting SPY TEST!
According to a famous piece of cultural folklore, locals and guards would allegedly use the song to spot American or foreign spies!
Because the song was so ubiquitous, if someone sang out “Jimmy Jimmy” to a stranger, a native Soviet citizen would instinctively know to respond with “Aaja Aaja”.
If a person failed to respond or looked confused, it was used as a clue that they had not grown up in the USSR!
So if you want to know if someone is a SPY; simply say JIMMY JIMMY!
He or she has to reply aja aja by the way… Made you smile! Just like how Jatin Kanakia used to!
In any case you can listen to songs from Disco dancer! Your sleep may not come though!
The novel Greatest show by Richard Dawkins tells about how in spite of being an animal in the ocean; the dolphin is actually more related to the human being!
It is all in the walk!
Not catwalk! The again when you talk about catwalk!
The term “catwalk” combines physical structure and feline grace: it refers to both the physical narrowness of the elevated stage—originally modeled after precarious industrial or maritime bridges—and the smooth, precise “foot-after-foot” walk models use to showcase clothing on it!
But here the focus is not on the ramp but the walk!
The Dolphins actually do not SWIM in the conventional sense! They actually Gallop in the water!
Unfortunately they do not have land so they use the water!
They also do it for Energy Efficiency! Leaping out of the water and diving back is called “porpoising and is actually easier and faster than swimming entirely underwater when going at high speeds, because air creates less drag than water!
Dolphins also use this motion to cover long distances quickly. Also since they are actually Mammals it also helps them in ‘breathing’! Breaking the surface allows them to easily grab a breath of air while moving at top speed!
Then you have an animal which does not have water so it uses the land!
The snake!
A snake does not gallop or walk on land, in fact it remembers it’s ancestor in water and actually swims on land! So the water snake or the sea snake is not an exception! They are actually aquatic creatures! They later LAND snakes arrived on land but did not FORGET to swim! Which is what they do even now!
Then again they have developed so many modifications of the swim!
The first is the Serpentine or Lateral Undulation movement where the snake curves its body into an S-shape. It pushes off objects (like rocks or branches) to propel itself forward! Then you also have the Concertina or the Accordion like movement, the Rectilinear or Straight Line movement and finally the Sidewinding which is used primarily by desert snakes to travel on loose, slippery sand!
Then you have those who mix and match!
Like the crocodile which mostly swims or walks like a lizard but sometimes it apparently gallops and it does it fast! And then you have an amalgamation of all the walks!
It is all in the walk!
Swimming is thus an act! And a necessary skill! So if a snake is chasing you (it is unlikely though!); try SWIMMING on land!
Like how your tongue swims in the oral cavity! Speaking of tongues reminds me of the polyglot PV N Rao who could speak over 17 languages!
Then again it’s better to walk the talk!
Just getting the WALK in the last line that’s all! Hope you don’t get a dream of a swimming snake!
You of course know that women are cool while men are; no no! Not fool! But hot; ok ok, warm!
Then again I am not writing about the human species!
Apparently the chief thing which determines whether this species would be a male or female is the temperature of incubation!
Mind blown!?
It is not science fiction but a common observation!
Only if Poghat sir had known about this then he would have tried to be cool or warm to get a son! May not work for humans though!
The phenomenon is seen in the GECKOS!
This process is called Temperature-dependent Sex Determination (TSD). The moment you have a fancy ‘scientific’ name to a phenomenon then you have a GUT feeling that it may be true!
So apparently the ambient temperature the egg experiences during its incubation window dictates whether the hatchling develops as a male or a female!
So if you are ‘incubating’ your pet GECKO you may start taking notes!
For popular pet geckos, like Leopard Geckos, the breakdown is as follows:
Cool Temperatures (26 degrees – 30 degrees ) produces predominantly females. In fact if you manage to maintain a temperature of 26 degrees, you will get nearly 100\% females!
Then you have the Warm Temperatures which is between 32 degrees to 32.5 degrees which produce mostly males!
Like I said before Males are warm! If you go above this temperature then it is HOT and that is again; FEMALES!
Which means that High Temperatures (34 degrees – 35 degrees) producea mostly females (often referred to as the “high-temperature females”)! You can also call them the super hot models of the Lizard community!
The ‘Scientific’ research from the Tokyo University of Science shows that during a specific developmental window, temperature activates either male-linked or female-linked genes within the embryo!
This is the reason for the embryo to develop into males or females which in this case is dependent on the temperature!
However, temperature isn’t the only factor for all geckos; some species rely on genetic sex determination, and hormones can sometimes override incubation temperatures!
So even if Males can be cool or Hot while females can be just warm! Gecko ones of course!
Then you have the extremely WARM and story rich movies directed by Krishnaswamy Bhagyaraj! It was a pleasure to watch them though sometimes you cannot watch them with the whole family! Story was the key point and how!
Like how Thalaiva Rajni told in some function about the Three ‘Rajas’ who redefined the Tamil Movie industry in the 1980-90s! Bharathiraja, Ilayaraja and Bhagyaraj!
We lost Bharathiraja recently and the loss of Bhagyaraj is a big one indeed. He will me missed. Heartfelt condolences to the legend
Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers by Dr. Robert Sapolsky
Audiobook
Self help book
A landmark book to say the least!
The biological differences in how humans and wild animals experience and process stress determine why humans suffer from stress-related illnesses like stomach ulcers, while zebras generally do not.
A zebra only experiences short-term physical emergencies. When a lion attacks, the zebra’s fight-or-flight response activates immediately. This floods its body with glucose and raises its blood pressure to help it run away. Once the danger is gone, the zebra immediately calms down and returns to eating grass. Its stress response shuts off completely.
Humans can activate the exact same physiological stress response simply by thinking or worrying. Psychological stressors—like job insecurity, paying bills, traffic, or relationship conflicts—persist for months or years. Humans live with sustained, low-to-mid-level panic that rarely shuts off completely
When the fight-or-flight system is constantly activated by psychological worries, the human body suffers severe physical wear and tear!
During emergency stress, the body stops digesting food to conserve energy for running or fighting. If you are constantly stressed, your stomach’s natural defense mechanisms and tissue repair functions remain paused.
The stomach lining continuously defends itself against corrosive gastric acids. Prolonged stress diminishes the stomach’s ability to secrete protective mucus and maintain healthy blood flow, making the lining vulnerable to eroding and forming an ulcer.
Chronic stress releases hormones like glucocorticoids (cortisol) that suppress the immune system over time. This makes it incredibly difficult for the human body to fight off Helicobacter pylori, the primary ulcer-causing bacteria!
Ultimately, the evolutionary stress response was designed to save an animal’s life during a 5-minute chase on the savanna. Humans make themselves sick by keeping that emergency system running continuously for purely psychological reason!
This is the short summary!
Then if you have follwed or listened or read his ealier books or rather later books like Behave or heard his lecture you would know the effect of stress!
The Robert takes about control which is more important than the stress itself!
Now imagine this situation;
You are placed in a room and presented with a sound at a particular loudness which is supposed to induce stress!
By default it would induce stress!
Then you are given a Lever or a shown a button and informed that you can press the button and the sound will get better or less loud!
As expected the presence of the button reduced the stress levels!
The more interesting thing here is what is revealed next!
The button does nothing!
Even if the button does nothing; the mere thought that you have some control over your stress is ENOUGH to reduce your stress!
That is the crux of the matter!
We get stressed on things which we do not have control on or cannot control! But the moment we believe that we can control the situation; the stress reduces or goes away!
There has been similar experiments on rodents with similar results!
This reminds me of the famous flow chart of stress or problem where it was advised that if you CANNOT do anything about it then just let it go and STOP worrying about it!
Robert Sapolsky argues that the core driver of psychological stress is not the stressor itself, but the loss of control!
When we face difficult circumstances, the lack of predictability, outlets for frustration, and social support turns acute biological reactions into chronic, health-damaging stress.
Of course the most easiest non stressful job is to give advice to others! While the most difficult stressful task is to follow your own advice!
It is all in the control!
If you want to win in elections then you can use an aerosol version of this drug and people may be incined to vote for you!
Of course they have to like you in the first place!
The drug only gently NUDGES them in your direction!
The ‘drug’ is VASOPRESSIN!
He also mentions how this drug is responsible for Monogamy and also how it is oxytocin which is reponsible for stress!
Then he tells about the role of stress in the causation of Ulcer!
This story is famous among the GE of the world!
GE here stands for Gastroenterologists and not Genius though many may be!
Anytime you have an ulcer you know even your mother would tell you that you have STRESS!
That was the primary hypothesis till this bacteria came along!
No scientist would ever think an infection would cause ulcer! They would immediately tell how the strong acid would kill all the bacteria and no bacterium would ever survive that! Till there occured an accidental mistake!
So from the land down under you had Dr Barry Marshall successfully culturing this bacteria over an Easter weekend after ‘mistakenly’ leaving plates in the incubator, a fortuitous mistake that revealed the bacteria’s need for longer, specific growth conditions!
While pathologists had observed spiral bacteria in gastric tissues as early as 1893, it was thought to be contamination!
In 1982, Robin Warren observed the bacteria in gastric biopsies!
Officially then both Barry Marshall and Robin Warren speculated that Helicobacter pylori is the primary cause of stomach ulcers and gastritis!
Of course the GE community was not impressed! They dismissed the whole idea till Marshall made another BRAVE MISTAKE!
Due to skepticism from the medical community, Marshall drank a broth containing H. pylori to prove it caused illness! Many called it a STUPID MIstake! It could have been a GRAVE one for sure!
Then again LUCKILY he developed severe gastritis (vomiting, bad breath) within days!
This confirmed his hypothesis and validating the infectious cause of ulcers
Of course even this was not accepted soon by the GE community till many such reports got reported and an eradication of this Bacteria caused a cessation of ulcers!
It was a victory of persistence!
Now research shows H. pylori has existed in humans for at least 100,000 years, migrating out of Africa with its host, and is present in nearly half the human population, though not always causing disease.H. pylori is now understood to live in the harsh, acidic environment of the stomach by producing the enzyme urease, which neutralizes acid and allows it to colonize the mucus layer!
Their discovery overturned the long-held medical belief that ONLY stress and diet caused ulcers, proving instead they were also infections treatable with antibiotics which earned them the Nobel Prize in 2005.
This is ONE of the SEVERAL cause for your ulcers!
So even if it present it may not cause ulcers since like all infections it is an interplay of agent host and environment!
So he tells about the role of stress in the causation of ulcers, heart conditions, reduced immunity and in general a short life span!
Even in the case of diseases like cancer he tells how more stress is worse! The he tells about the famous Dutch winter in which the starvation among pregnant women produced children who were like sponge!
In the end he also tells how you can reduce stress! Medication and meditation being on the top of things!
An extensive analysis of stress and the glucocorticoids and also how the whole system was developed to protect you in the short term! But if it persists then you are in a world of strain or stress!
All in all a very non stressful book to handle stress!
Everyone knows what is Type 2 Diabetes! At least most medicos do!
Now do you know that there is a type of fun which is called the Type 2 fun! You also have type 3 fun by the way!
It is no fun to wait for it though!
Now you know what is fun! Chiling and not working for it too much! Of course the definition of fun for everyone is different but then it is more or less similar!
The specific type 2 fun refers to an activity that is miserable, difficult, or uncomfortable while you are doing it, but becomes highly enjoyable, rewarding, and memorable in retrospect. It generally involves stepping outside your comfort zone, pushing your physical or mental limits, and overcoming a significant challenge!
So this brings us to the fun scale! Yes! Everything has a grade! Even FUN! That if of course the best way to take FUN out of everything!
The concept originated in the mountaineering community to categorize activities based on how they are experienced over time!
Type 1 Fun: Fun both while it is happening and later (e.g., eating pizza, laughing with friends)! Or in my case simply lying on a comfortable bed and watching a nice movie with the whole family in my home theatre!
Then you have the Type 2 Fun: Not fun at all in the moment, but deeply satisfying to look back on! We will get back to this!
Type 3 Fun: Not fun while happening and a miserable memory you never want to repeat (e.g., getting hypothermia, surviving a disaster!). It is a nice memory which is good only because you survived it but you do not want this to happen again!
So in this Type 2 fun is the one in question!
While often associated with wilderness and survival activities, Type 2 fun can apply to anything that requires grit and determination!
In outdoors it can be running a marathon, backcountry hiking in a rainstorm, or surviving a tough camping trip!
It can even be in everyday life! Learning a difficult instrument, building a complex piece of furniture, or pushing through a brutal workout! I still remember the IKEA bed which we as a family FIXED! It took the whole day and our backs were sore for a couple of days! But boy was it worth it!
So despite the temporary suffering, many people actively seek out Type 2 fun because it builds deep resilience, creates the best stories, fosters powerful bonding with others, and teaches you what you are truly capable of! It is like you WORK for the fun and this is why you feel it is valuable!
So what type of fun is reading this blog!? Please do not tell it is TYPE 3!
Then again simple type 1 fun is listening to music especially made by the super talented Madan Mohan Kohli!
The novel Shattered lands by Sam Dalrymple tells about the partition of the British India and among other things tells about the Bengal famine.
Many historians try to whiteswash the history when it does not suit them which is why this tragedy which killed more than 2 million people is still not known to many!
The 1943 Bengal Famine was a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the Bengal province of British India that resulted in the deaths of an estimated 2 to 3.8 million people. Occurring at the height of World War II, it stands as one of the deadliest man-made disasters of the 20th century, deeply tied to British colonial governance and wartime economic policy.
Now though ocalized factors like a 1942 cyclone and a fungal crop disease reduced regional rice yields slightly, modern research and economists have proven that there was no absolute shortage of food supply in 1943.
Instead, structural failures and deliberate policies precipitated the mass starvation.
The first was the “Denial Policy”: Fearing a Japanese invasion after the fall of British Burma in 1942, authorities implemented a scorched-earth strategy. They confiscated and destroyed tens of thousands of local boats—the primary transport for food and the livelihood of rural fishermen.
The other CHIEF cause was one man! The British government under Prime Minister Winston Churchill systematically prioritized stockpiling grain for military forces and European reserves over feeding the civilian population. More than 70,000 tons of rice were exported out of India during the first half of 1943 alone!
Severe wartime spending and panic hoarding triggered a massive spike in rice prices (skyrocketing from 2 rupees to 40 rupees). This economic shock priced agricultural laborers, rural artisans, and fishermen completely out of the food market.
The crisis decimated the social fabric of rural Bengal. Millions of starving, impoverished families dissolved as men sold off tiny plots of land to find work and women and children migrated en masse toward cities like Calcutta, begging for standard grain water.
Winston Churchill’s wartime cabinet repeatedly denied urgent requests for relief food shipments and medicine from British officials stationed in India.
Official colonial records from the era reveal deeply unsympathetic attitudes, with Churchill famously blaming Indians for the crisis by stating they were “breeding like rabbits” and asking why Gandhi had not died yet!
There was so much starvation and desperation that even the radio started announcing the Nutritional value of GRASS!
During the Bengal Famine, starving populations consumed wild grasses and aquatic weeds (like khesari or grass peas, shama grass, and water hyacinth) out of desperation.
While grasses provided a temporary, bulky sense of fullness, their nutritional value for humans was incredibly poor and hazardous.
Virtually Zero Caloric Energy: Human digestive tracts lack the enzymes (cellulase) required to break down the tough cellulose and lignin fibers that make up the bulk of wild grasses. As a result, the body could not extract digestible carbohydrates or glucose from them.
The extremely high, indigestible fiber content often led to severe bowel obstruction, intense bloating, and fatal dysentery!
One HUMAN was reduced to eating grass simply because another HUMAN lost his HUMANITY…
Which is why we need money! And rich people who spend because at the end of it all; every donation counts! Just like the massive ₹60,000 crore (approximately $7.7 billion) to be utilized for various social causes by Adani! This monumental endowment is one of the largest corporate philanthropic commitments in Asia, dedicated to enhancing healthcare, education, and skill development!
You can eat more than just Grass with that!
Think about that though when you are wasting your food though…
While we used to read about the history of medicine or surgery, most of the times it used to start with this book called the Sushruta Samhita! One of the things mentioned in this legendary book was the use of ants in suturing!
We used to feel that it is a wonder that this could be done! Or may be imagination!
Recently while listening to the book by Robert Sapolsky called A Primate’s Memoir; the author describes an incident involving the army ants!
Now having an encounter with a couple of them is ok but if a swarm gets you then you are in trouble! The issue is that once they bite you, they will not let go! Which is of course dangerous but the tribes of Africa understood this nature of the ants and have modified their behaviour for their benefit! Wound Suturing!
Using ant jaws as sutures is a traditional first-aid technique used historically by indigenous cultures in Africa and South America. It involves using large-jawed ants (like army or leaf-cutter ants) to act as natural surgical staples.
What they do is that the edges of the cut are held tightly together and then a live ant is held by the body and its jaws are positioned perpendicular to the wound!
The ant instinctively bites down, clamping the flesh between its large mandibles! Then comes the twist! The ant’s body is carefully twisted or snapped off, leaving only the head and the locked jaws in place!
The process is repeated so that additional ants are used along the length of the wound as needed!
Finally once the wound has healed, the ant heads naturally fall off or are gently removed!
Only species with exceptionally strong mandibles and a locking mechanism are suitable. The most common are the Army Ants: (e.g., Eciton in South America, Dorylus/Driver ants in Africa), the Weaver Ants: (e.g., Oecophylla in India and Southeast Asia) and the Bullet Ants: Used in certain tropical regions!
This method dates back centuries. It was first famously recorded in the ancient Indian medical text, the Atharva Veda (circa 1000 BC) and Sushruta Samhita, and was primarily a quick, life-saving measure to stop bleeding in remote areas!
In modern contexts, it is not recommended if medical supplies are available. The ants themselves or their mandibles can introduce bacteria into the skin, increasing the risk of infection!
So the next time you visit a tribal area in Africa and see a chief with some ants in his bag; that may simply be his Suturing set! And he may be an Expert ‘ant surgeon’!
Expert in music also is M. S. Viswanathan!
Now stop dropping sugary stuff all around if you aren’t planning to learn suturing and sleep!
