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Everyone likes to win a Jackpot!

Everyone likes to get that one lottery which they assume will make them set for life! The jackpot which can solve all the problems in their life!

Then have you heard of Jackpot Justice!? or the Trouser Lawsuit!?

They are both true and real terms! As you read you will get to know some fish may have shell! But it is the human who is selfish!

So “Jackpot justice” is a pejorative term used to describe a legal system that allegedly encourages plaintiffs and trial lawyers to seek massive, outsized monetary awards—often through punitive damages or class actions—that are disproportionate to the actual harm suffered.

These are awards that go far beyond “making the victim whole” and are viewed as a windfall or “jackpot” for the plaintiff!

Critics argue that juries impose these awards without consistent reasoning or clear legal guidelines while proponents of this view claim it acts as an “excess tort tax” on the economy, leading to higher consumer prices and fewer jobs!

If you think that this is silly then you must read about the Trouser lawsuit! The ridiculousness of this lawsuit will amaze and shock you and then really bowl you over when you realize that it was done by a judge!

So in 2005, Roy L. Pearson Jr., then an administrative law judge in Washington, D.C., sued Custom Cleaners, a local family-owned business run by the Chung family, claiming they lost a pair of his trousers!

So your pants are lost or maybe damaged! What would any person with a grain of humanity do?

Leave it be or take some store credit or get a new pant!

What did the Judge do?

He sued them!

Not for a hundred or even a thousand dollars! But for; hold your breath; 67 million dollars!

Pearson initially sought $67 million, later reduced to $54 million; so much for small mercies! Microscopic mercy actually!

He argued that the shop’s “Satisfaction Guaranteed” and “Same Day Service” signs were legally binding promises that the business failed to meet! Pearson calculated the astronomical sum by applying D.C. consumer protection laws, claiming thousands of dollars for every day the signs were displayed over several years, plus damages for “mental suffering” and car rental fees to visit a different cleaner! You would think a different cleaner was located in MARS!

If this was a banana republic then the Judge would have even won! He fought the trial himself and even cried a little in the MEMORY of his missing PANTS!

Luckily that particular court was ruled by a HUMANE judge! In 2007, a D.C. Superior Court judge ruled in favor of the dry cleaners, stating that no reasonable consumer would interpret the advertising slogans as an unlimited guarantee to meet any demand at any cost!

Now now; more good news for humanity! Following the trial, a panel recommended that Pearson not be reappointed as a judge due to a lack of “judicial temperament” demonstrated by the lawsuit. He ultimately lost his job in 2007!

Unfortunately despite winning, the financial and emotional toll on the Chung family was severe. They closed two of their three shops during the litigation. Public donations and fundraisers eventually helped them cover more than $100,000 in legal fees. But they were the ones with the actual mental trauma!

This case is widely cited in law schools as a cautionary tale of “jackpot justice” and helped inspire movements for tort reform and judicial accountability!
So the next time your cleaner misplaces your pant! Stop panting for jackpot justice! Get store credit or another pant!

If the pants aren’t dry don’t cry! Which reminds me of the crying but sentimental mother of Hindi movies; Nirupa Roy!

Now stop thinking about Jackpots and sleep!

Shubh ratri!

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky

Audiobook of running length of more than 25 hours!

One of the longest books I have listened for a long time!

The author is a neurobiologist who primarily studied with Chimps!

The book is huge with so many aspects covered and the review being a short summary is also huge!

Since it is a non fiction, the review does not have any spoilers! It is a preview for those who may read or listen in the future (there goes your 25hours!) or a summary for those who may not have time to listen or read it (saved your 25 hours!)

Sapolsky’s central argument is that no single factor causes any given behavior; rather, every action is the result of an intricate combination of influences that occurred across vast time scales.

The book examines influences ranging from a milliseconds-old neurological event (brain chemistry and neural pathways) to factors hours and days earlier (hormones), and extending back to adolescence, childhood experiences, genetics, culture, and evolutionary pressures over millions of years.

Sapolsky delves into specific brain regions, such as the amygdala (associated with fear and aggression) and the frontal cortex (involved in reasoning and self-control), and how their interaction and development shape our choices.

The book explores the biological underpinnings of morality, empathy, and altruism, as well as the mechanisms that lead to tribalism and xenophobia (“us versus them” dynamics).

He takes it much further in terms of us vs them with examples galore!


In the book Behave by Robert Sapolsky he mentions about the specific centers in the brain which gets activated when you lie!

You would think that so what! It is just a lie! What you do not realize is that telling a lie is actually a very complex and sophisticated cognitive task!

It is simple to tell the truth since, well it is the truth! But to tell a lie involves planning and careful analysis!

You need to be very careful on what you say and then say it! Give only information which supports your lie and that is not a simple task!


Robert Sapolsky discusses the “train track question,” formally known as the trolley problem, in his book Behave to illustrate the complex interplay of neuroscience, emotion, and utilitarian reasoning in human morality!

The problem is usually asked in many variations!

The classic “trolley problem” presents two main scenarios:

The Switch Case: A runaway trolley is headed toward five people tied to the track. You are standing next to a lever. If you pull the lever, the trolley will divert onto a side track, where it will kill one person.

Most people (around 70%) say they would pull the lever, sacrificing one person to save five, which is a utilitarian decision (the ends justify the means).

The Footbridge Case (or “Fat Man” Case): The trolley is still headed for five people. This time, you are on a footbridge above the tracks, next to a large man.

The only way to stop the trolley is to push this man onto the tracks, killing him, but saving the five people. Far fewer people (around 25%) say they would do this!

Another variation is that the Fat Man is actually the person who is responsible for the tying the people on the track and is actually evil! Then almost 100 percent would tell that they would push him!

The distinction in people’s responses highlights a tension between immediate, emotional aversion to personally causing harm (pushing the man) and abstract, cognitive calculations of the greater good (pulling the lever).

Sapolsky notes that individuals with damage to the prefrontal cortex, a brain region critical for emotional regulation and decision-making, are more likely to make the purely utilitarian choice to push the man in the footbridge scenario!

Your choice would also be influenced if you know the person or persons involved! If you are too anxious you may not even make a choice and simply close your eyes to the whole problem!


Robert Sapolsky states how the recent amazing findings about Mirror Neurons are overhyped!

Mirror neurons are a specialized class of brain cells that fire both when an individual performs a specific action and when they observe another person performing that same action!

It is like the neuron responsible for Sympathy, empathy and compassion!
This dual firing apparently allows the brain to “mirror” others’ behaviors as if the observer were acting themselves!

In primates, they are primarily located in the ventral premotor cortex (area F5) and the inferior parietal lobule. In humans, activity consistent with mirror neurons has also been detected in the supplementary motor area and primary somatosensory cortex!

They have been theorized to provide a “felt understanding” of others, although many of these roles remain subjects of scientific debate!

The neurons apparently also facilitate learning by observation, especially in infants, by mentally rehearsing observed movements.

Of course the chief focus is that some researchers believe they are the neural basis for empathy, as the same brain regions for feeling an emotion (like disgust or pain) activate when seeing someone else experience it~

It was once widely proposed that mirror neuron dysfunction caused the social deficits in autism, but more recent evidence suggests this link is likely oversimplified or unsubstantiated and Robert is in that list who believes that they are just there!

Robert Sapolsky uses the example of a firing squad to illustrate the psychological concept of diffusion of responsibility and challenge our assumptions about free will and morality!

Now why a firing squad is used to execute is that if it is one to one shooting then the human may feel guilt (if some humanity is left that is!) even if the person who is to be shot ‘deserves’ it! So when you are a part of the squad then the morality is safe (r)!

Sapolsky states that humans have a deep-seated aversion to killing another person up close. So to counteract the psychological trauma and moral responsibility of an execution, historical firing squads employed specific practices:

One is like above; using multiple Shooters: Instead of one executioner, a team (typically five or more) fired simultaneously. This allowed each shooter to feel they were only one-fifth responsible, a comforting but irrational thought!

There is another key tactic also! Which is the Blank Cartridge!

A key historical tactic was giving one random member of the squad a blank cartridge instead of a live bullet. This provided every shooter with a psychological “out”—the ability to believe, with some plausible deniability, that “I may not even have shot him or her”!

No one is told who gets the blank and those with conscience get some comfort!

Even in the case of lethal injection; some states employ two injectors!

Both press the button and only one goes to the convict! One is diverted to a waste bucket!

The amount of energy and thought process to keep the humanity alive!

Robert Sapolsky also talks about Reciprocal altruism

Now it may sound complicated but it is fairly simple and you would have actually known and done the simple sounding version of this act!

Technically though reciprocal altruism is a social behavior where an organism helps another at a cost to itself, with the expectation of getting help in return later.

This is actually a crucial behavior in animals for cooperation among non-relatives, seen in baboons forming coalitions or cleaner fish cleaning larger fish, relying on memory and recognizing “cheaters” to maintain fairness!

Remember that the first act of altruism is not easy!
Acting altruistically (reducing own fitness) with the expectation of future reciprocation, boosting long-term fitness is the theme here and this term was coined by Robert Trivers in 1971 to explain cooperation beyond kin selection.
The fact here is that individuals help those who have helped them, often using past behavior as a cue for future reliability. The chief point here is that there is an essence of give and take! If you cheat in between you are out!

Organisms must remember past interactions to identify and avoid individuals who take help but don’t give it back (cheaters)!

If you thought it happens only in Humans; it is surprisingly common in animals!

Like say in Baboons, the Males form temporary alliances (coalitions) to gain mating access, expecting support later.

In fishes like the cleaner Fish, the small fish eat parasites off larger fish; larger fish protect them in return!

In many vampire Bats, the bats that fail to feed may receive regurgitated blood from a successful bat, expecting the favor returned.

In humans of course this is the norm! One individual helps another expecting the favor to be returned in kind or cash! Here the chief factor is trust! If you that is lost then the whole deal is out!

Robert actually uses the theme of prisoner’s dilemma to get the whole altruism details! It is a long loop of commit and defect!

Then you have the amygdala and the lies!

You have the phenotype and the proteins!

You have the nerve and the nerve junctions and the neurotransmitters! You have the types and how they can be increased or decreased!

You also have the end notes of DNA and proteins!

The final summary is that human behavior is a complex interplay of brain, environment, chemicals and genes! Like you did not know that already! Or did you!?

Bellevue by Robin Cook

Medical thriller with some paranormal activity thrown around!

The typical cook has a medical environment which in this case is the Bellevue hospital which apparently has so much history!

The history has pioneers and brave physicians and surgeons who had done procedures which today would be considered crude and brutal!

One surgeon doing an amputation on the heaviest bone without any anesthesia!
Even when had already been introduced in the surgical field all over the world!

But the cherry on the cake and the core plot of the story is the Lobotomy!

Without revealing much I can tell you that the start and the end of the story involves doing a ‘procedure’ on an ‘innocent’ person by  force! Now whether is was normal or ‘paranormal’ is for you to decide!

We have a new surgical intern who like every other intern in any medical college around the world is over worked and under paid! Sleep is a luxury and calls in the night are the norm! You are tasked with the most complicated cases but you actually do not know much!

The food is bad and the duty room is small but still gives you the best sleep!

Your seniors and the nursing staffs are your best friends and teachers and you have to get it together every single day!

Add to this if you are having visions and complications in your cases then you are literally in a soup!

A dark and frankly depressing novel which still does give the nostalgic reminiscence of my internship!

The sudden and unpredictable ending left me angry and shocked! Then again that is Cook!

This may seem familiar especially to Patients!

So many times someone would come with complains of say Right ear pain.

The doctor would check the nose, throat, even chest and even the left ear while the patient keeps on telling that it is the RIGHT EAR which is having issues!

The patient would think the doctor has hearing loss himself or herself!

Once a patient even remarked in his own language to himself that the doctor is checking all over instead of the ‘Organ’ which is causing the issue!

Sometimes I even clean the wax and other discharge from the ‘normal’ ear taking my own time (according to the patient!) much to the chagrin of the already tensed patient!

Finally when we see the particular organ with the issue you can feel the relief of the patient!

If you are a patient then you must understand that this is the major difference between a senior and a junior doctor!

The senior or experienced doctor would never examine the affected part first! There are many reasons for this;

All other parts such as the nose and the throat are linked to each other and MUST be examined to get a proper diagnosis! Even if you have ear pain, the problem may be a nasal obstruction or even a referred pain from the throat! This is true for most body systems! No organ or body part works in isolation! They are all a part of the unit! Of course you do have specialists and super specialists now, but the fact of the matter is that the Body is one UNIT!

Another issue is that if the affected area is infected then there is a very high chance of spreading the infection if that area is inspected first! Which is why the infected part MUST be examined last! This is also true when we do the cleaning for surgery! The infected and non infected parts are kept as distant as possible and cleaned separately!

If the affected area is having pain and the patient is a child then he or she may not show other areas since examination of the affected area will cause pain!

Most important is that once you find a finding in the area pointed out by the patient, you may MISS out other important SILENT findings in other areas! Once I got a patient who had very obviously placed a plastic bead on the nose! Luckily I examined the ears first and found more in each of the ears! Nothing in the mouth though!

Another important thing you must realize is that every doctor has a set pattern of examination regardless of the symptom. He or she would ‘cover’ all the areas and then come to the area of YOUR concern! All you got to do is have patience!

Many times it does happen that in your stress you would forget that the doctor had seen the other ear! After cleaning the ‘affected’ ear the patient would ask about the ‘other’ normal area much to our chagrin now completely forgetting that we had seen the normal ear first!

In any case, every medical examination normally has to follow a systematic approach starting from the history to inspection to palpation and finally auscultation!

This is also important to establish a baseline trust especially if it is a minor or tense patient!

So all you have to do is be PATIENT! We will get to the point by the end of the century!

Anyways that’s just how some do their duty! Which reminds me of T N Sheshan!


Another day new stories!

Shubh ratri!

The other day I was doing my work and my brother was playing this song on the tube called Dwapara in Kannada! 

The start was not so profound but there was the second main rhyme which really got my attention and how! I have not stopped listening to it since then! 

You will be surprised to know that it has been sung by a Singh in Kannada and the Dwapara refers to the Dwapara Yuga of Krishna! The familiarity of the soft tunes and the beautiful lyrics really hit the right spots on my musically inclined brain!

Then I realized that I like it because of the  familiarity principle!

This is also called the mere exposure effect!

The mere exposure effect, also known as the familiarity principle, is a psychological phenomenon where people develop a preference for things simply because they are familiar with them!

Apparently from an evolutionary perspective, the brain associates familiarity with safety. If a stimulus is encountered repeatedly without negative consequences, it is perceived as non-threatening!

Repeated exposure makes it easier for the brain to process a stimulus. This ease, or “fluency,” creates a positive feeling that the brain often misinterprets as a genuine preference for the object itself.

A common example is seeing a brand’s logo or hearing its jingle repeatedly makes it more likely you will choose that brand over an unfamiliar competitor!

People generally find others more likable and attractive the more often they see them, even if no direct conversation occurs. Like your neighbor or even your watchman! 

Now I liked the Dwapara song immediately but if the song is neutral at first, if you go on listening to it then even an annoying song often “grow on us” after being played frequently on the radio or in playlists!

The reverse is also true! A familiar song gets very irritating on repeat plays! One such song is MY HEART WILL GO ON! Even though it was a big hit at the time, many simply cannot stand the song because it is too familiar!

Apparently if the initial reaction to something is strongly negative, repeated exposure can actually intensify that dislike rather than turning it into a preference!

Then again human brain is not so simple!

There is an apparent limit to the exposure! Liking typically increases with repetition up to a point—often around 10–20 exposures—after which excessive exposure can lead to boredom or annoyance!

So if you want to get over a song or an EAR WORM soon then you have to listen to that for at least 20 times! 

Then again do not think so much! The song DWAPARA is really nice! You do not have to put all the Freudian formula to it and spoil the art!

Music ka jawab nahi! Like Kapil ka jawab nahi!

Listen to it before you sleep!

Shubh ratri!

The novel Bellevue by Robin Cook starts with a description of a procedure which was performed so casually and normally that you would be shocked!

The discoverer of the procedure was given the Nobel prize!

It actually used the literal destruction of brain!

One of the patient was the kin of Kennedy!

The most shocking thing was that in spite of being a physician with no surgical training, there was a ‘neurologist’ who would perform more than 3000 such procedures!

He would develop a special ICEPICK for the procedure done without anesthesia!

The procedure would involve him literally stabbing a patient through the soft plate of the orbit into the brain and making a mince meat of the brain tissue!

The procedure was called Lobotomy! If you were impressed with the Batmobile then you will be shocked with the lobotomobile!

The one who popularized it was Walter Freeman!

Though he was not a trained surgeon, he performed approximately 3,500 to 4,000 lobotomies over four decades, often in non-surgical settings like private offices or mental hospitals.

In 1936, Freeman and neurosurgeon James Watts performed the first American prefrontal lobotomy, a surgical procedure requiring burr holes in the skull to sever neural fibers.

Freeman introduced a faster, cheaper method inspired by an Italian technique. He would tap a slender tool (an orbitoclast) through the thin bone of the eye socket into the brain using a mallet, then sweep it to sever connections in the frontal lobe!

Freeman traveled the U.S. in a van, nicknamed the “lobotomobile,” performing and teaching the transorbital procedure at psychiatric institutions to address overcrowding!

He even lobotomized the sister of John F. Kennedy called Rosemary Kennedy . The procedure left her permanently incapacitated and unable to speak more than a few words!

At age 12, Howard Dully was lobotomized by Freeman (authorized by his stepmother) for being “defiant”. He survived and later shared his story in the book and radio documentary My Lobotomy!

While Freeman claimed many successes, approximately 14% of his patients died from the procedure. Others were left in a vegetative state, became emotionally “flat,” or suffered severe cognitive impairment!

Freeman was banned from performing surgery in 1967 after a patient, Helen Mortensen, died of a cerebral hemorrhage during her third lobotomy by him!

Imagine doing the same savage procedure three times with the third causing death!

The issue here is not only was the procedure savage and crude, it was also the attitude where the ‘surgeon’ would actually treat ‘patients’ like animals (of course even animals MUST be treated well but that it another matter!)!

So the next time your doctor gives you a oral medication for a couple of days; you can trust him or her and take it without asking too many questions especially if he does not have an ICEPICK in his or her chamber!

That’s a joke of course!
Which reminds me of Jagathy Sreekumar and his funny acts! So sad that he can’t act much now…

Let’s dream of a miracle!

Shubh ratri…

The other day on a quick visit to Bengaluru we had a nostalgic walk on the Church Street and Brigade road!

There were days when going to the Brigade road was the Bengaluru thing! Even now in spite of having so many iconic spots like the Commercial street or Jayanagar 4th block; going to the Brigade Road/Church street is still hep!

Of course you can’t even imagine doing that during the new year eve since the crowd will be huge! But we were there a couple of days before that and the crowd was lesser! Still crowded though!

After a long walk and a bowl of noodle soup and some vegetarian sushi (yeah! It exists!); I asked my son how was the day?

He said, “Appa it was a W!”

The rule for any parent of a Teen or going to be a teen soon child is that, if your child is telling you something with a smile, you just take it! Do not ask or dig further into it!

Of course later on I asked my daughter about it and she told me that W is a win!

Now I am wondering if I have to be happy that my son is happy or sad that he could have just said it was good instead of going the Gen z lingo way! But then again; like I said above, it is better to take the W! At least he did not say it was L!

So apparently in Gen Z slang, “W” stands for “Win,” signifying a positive outcome, success, or something good, often used to celebrate achievements or good decisions, while its opposite, “L,” means “Loss” or “Lose”. It’s used as a quick way to say “that’s a win” or “good job,” contrasting with “L” for something negative or a failure!

As parents of Gen Z kids you must watch out for your W!

It can be like “That movie was a total W; I loved it!” which is an adjective use!

Of it can be a statement of approval like above!  “You nailed that trip dad—what a W!”

Even in social media a caption a good photo with “Big W!” or comment “W”  is a way to tell that he or she liked it!

Then again be wary of the L!

It can be used in routine words like “You did not get a leave? Big L”.

Ladies and sometimes gents too! can watch out for statements from their teenage daughters like “You really killed that outfit, W”

The W and L of course are a result of the gaming culture and sports, where wins and losses are clearly marked!

Then again if the dictionary of the future adds it to the letters then it may be a big W for the Gen Z but a big L for English! I am not going to think about it and lose my S! I mean Sleep!

Just don’t listen to some old peppy number by Gurdas Maan then you may not get sleep!

I’m logging off! That’s good night Gen Z style!

Shubh ratri!

365 days 365 sketches!

365 blogs!

More than 30 book reviews!

That’s 2025!

My son had a project in which he was supposed to draw a camel; I saw him painstakingly try to get the legs right!

The proportions and the final structure was coming out slowly but he was not happy!

At one point I told him, “Why don’t you simply trace it!?”

He looked at me and said what I would have said if someone had suggested that to me! “That would not be right; I would not feel satisfied!”

I was proud of him!

Art needs truth!

Even if at first your work is not good, all you have to do is be consistent! Even if it does not look good (like my sketch and rarely blog sometimes!); I still post it!

Nowadays you can use the best tools to write a blog or make a sketch! But like my son says; I would not feel satisfied!

Of course many are gifted artists who can get these results faster; many like me need to be persistent and consistent and cannot take this lightly!

In the book mastery by Robert Greene it is said that you need at least 5-10 thousand hours to be a master! It roughly translates to around 6-10 years of consistent work!

So even if the work is busy like today when I saw more than fifty patients or the other day when I was travelling the whole day with no rest; you can still give around ten to fifteen minutes for your skill!

Just like your body needs your time, your mind also needs it! A sketch and a blog and the NYT puzzle corner are the three things I have to do if I have to sleep with a satisfaction of accomplishing something!

The aim is to make the blog readable and crisp! The issue is that writing a short one is more difficult! The ‘facts’ are taken verbatim to maintain authenticity but the topic and the whole text is pure ‘human’ and original! In this day and age though it is difficult to be neutral and clean! I try! Most of the time it works! I have a clear bias towards India and this ‘shows’ most of the time!
But apart from that I have no ulterior ‘motive’ since I have better things to do!

The sketch is usually of the birthday celebrity or someone ‘famous’ right now or someone whom I respect! Here the issue is when I sketch someone who is controversial when actually anyone can be controversial! I would urge then to look at his or her good stuff and ignore the bad! No one is perfect! Not the person I sketch or the person who is sketching them!

Sometimes though I may sketch someone ‘controversial’ for someone else but here also I have no personal affliction to him or her! It would simply have been his or her birthday or he or she would have won the Padma or some award! If he or she can win an award then me sketching him or her is a simple thing! It does not mean that he or she is my friend or I am his or her ‘agent’!

Then again since I also want to be an artiste one day, I have huge respect for artists! They have been given the gift to entertain and how! Like the sketch of the day; Chetan Anand! Even he is not perfect like my sketch!

So I try to see through the imperfections and sketch them! Imperfectly!

Then again that is life! It is not perfect! It simply goes on however it is…

Sharing both the sketch and the collage of 2025!

Let’s see how it’s goes!

Shubh ratri…

Sometimes the cause and the treatment of a condition may be the same!

The same thing can be poison or nectar!

The same water in dehydration is nectar while in heart failure is, well dangerous!

In ENT there is a complication called the oro antral fistula where you have fistula or abnormal communication between the oral cavity and the maxillary sinus or antrum. The interesting point here to note is that sometimes this is a complication of a surgery or surgical approach called the Caldwel Luc! More interesting is that sometimes the treatment is also by the same approach! The cause and the cure is the same in this case!

There’s a process called Photodecomposition!


This is a chemical reaction in which compounds are broken down by photons. The process is also known as photodissociation or photolysis. Any photon with a high wavelength can cause this reaction, including visible light!

The process is responsible for the creation of our ozone!

The ozone in the Earth’s atmosphere is created by photodecomposition
Ultraviolet light strikes oxygen molecules made up of two oxygen atoms
(02), and breaks them into separate atoms.
They then combine with unbroken 02 molecules to form ozone (03)!


Then again that is routine! What is unusual is that this same process causes the destruction of ozone in the earth’s atmosphere!

So the same process which creates also destroys the ozone layer!

Now do not get into the specifics, the root point here is that sometimes what is your greatest strength can also become your greatest weakness!

Being kind can be your strength but then if you are liable to be manipulated for your kindness then it becomes your weakness!

Then again you can be kind and generous and just don’t have any expectations and you will not get hurt!

Like J R D Tata! Remembering legends at the start of the year!

Shubh ratri…

Once upon and time and happily ever after!

Those were the tales we grew up with! Be it movies or stories; everyone is happy in the end! The villain is always defeated and the hero is always the winner!

The best thing is that you know who is the villain and who is the hero!

Who is your actual friend and who is your foe!

Then you grow up and realize that it is all a story! Then again sometimes your own story can be a fairy tale! But if you think about the real stories behind the fairy tales then you would realize that life is a fairy tale but only that it is unmodified!

In the story Pinocchio, when Pinocchio is teased about his wooden head by his cricket companion, the enraged puppet throws a hammer and kills him!

In Andersen’s telling of the little mermaid, the witch silences the little mermaid by cutting off her tongue! Also the little mermaid loses her prince to a human bride and smiles at him one last time as she and her sisters rise slowly to heaven!

In the actual stories of Cinderella, the evil stepmother hands a knife to the eldest of her two daughters, and orders her to cut her toe off to fit in the glass slippers!

In a version of Red Riding Hood, as a warning to young women to avoid sexual predators, he simply allows the flirtatious Little Red Riding Hood to be eaten by the big bad wolf!

And in Snow White; her evil stepmother is invited to Snow White’s wedding, where the guests heat a pair of iron shoes on burning coals. She’s then forced to step into the red-hot footwear and dance in agony, until she falls down dead!

Those are the real fairy tales! Real and tough…which is life…


It’s a fairly tale if something is named after you for perpetuity! Like the Boson named after Satyendra bose!

May the new year be like the fairy tale of your childhood like Boson!

Shubh ratri!