Enough of the pseudo-philosophical nonsense.

Charu’s comment : I wonder what religion has got to do in all places like hospital and school etc.

Is one of the naivest and LOLest statements I’ve ever heard.

data collection, collation,Census

You must have read such figures????
a) Community A has a greater percentage of children in school than community B.

b)Community A has a higher infant-mortality rate than community B.

c)Both A and B have terrible sex-ratios

d)A third Community C is better-off than A & B in a),b) and c)
Conclusion: Community B lags in a) and community A lags in b). Both A and B lag in c) C is in much better shape. So focus on improving A and B.
This helps the Government because it identifies the problem areas of a cluster of people( such as a religious community) and give primacy to their eradication. In a country of 1 billion people, it is kinda difficult to go door-to-door asking people about their difficulties, isn’t it? And the Government isn’t Bill Gates,either. Such classification is done on religion,gender,caste,geographical location(e.g. state A is richer than state B)

Another added benefit for many prejudiced NRIs is that they can quote such data and claim how India treats its minorities pathetically,how India is a nation of wife-beaters, ad inf.

In America, such data is compiled on the basis of race.
Indian-Americans are more affluent than Caucasians and Afro-Americans.
So give more priority to the eradication of poverty among Afro-Americans, because there are more of them in need.
That doesn’t make any sense here because Indians in general come from a myriad ethnic backgrounds.(yes, we’re mostly brown but nonetheless ).

So how is this data collected? via the people themselves. That is why you specify your religion and gender in school and hospital application. If religion isn’t important, neither is gender. Why do mention your gender? Whatever happened to gender-equality ?

E.g. IIT-JEE 2009. The application form which I’d filled also asked for my caste,my religion, mother-tongue, my parents’ annual income and whether I was taking coaching for exam preparation.These were optional anyway, but why ask those things here? Because it helps the organizers determine the socio-economic status of the candidates(!).
Example, if most of the successful candidates were from upper classes, whose parents earned >30,00,00- rupees a year and took expensive and intensive coaching, the conclusion would be that JEE is an elitist exam which only rich persons can afford to attempt.
So make requisite changes in the exam pattern and organization.

In reality, the situation was somewhat the latter, and has led to JEE becoming easier with every passing year. It’s deliberate so as to undermine the coaching industry.
Ya, these are my hypotheses. I could be incorrect, so I request the economists and social scientists to please spare me.

No offence intended but I couldn’t help but laugh at this comment.

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As for people asking your religion, ever wondered why in America people always mention your ethnicity(Caucasian, Afro,Asian,East-Indian) in most official documents(atleast the ones I’ve come across). Why should the colour of your skin matter? Tell you what, I’ve never been able to fathom why colour or religion should matter to anyone. But it’s human nature. It’s only natural for us to grade ourselves on religion,race,sexual orientation,blah blah blah. This is true for anyplace on earth. Whether Banaras or Beverly Hills.

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I wonder what religion has got to do in all places like hospital and school etc. Do they get to decide if they bury you or crimate you, whatever? Just sick of using god, religion and tradition to everything you do. I just returned from a month’s trip to India. The minute anyone says he is sick, they immediately pray to a specific god assigned to heart and paralytic issues and hope he will get better (but still continue the high fat junk food eating habits).

Reg insurance, I hear that the docs rip you off a lot more if you say you are using insurance instead of cash. Is that true? I am hearing contradicting opinions about insurance usage there. Also does the company (any companies such as yours?) provide you with insurance and pays it in full? How does it work?

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PS: It was an American Restaurant that made Auroracoda sick….and the proof was in the outbreak that was reported by a local health inspector! YAY!

Note to self, only go back there if one is in need of loosing 10 pounds, explosively, over the course of 3 days. lol

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Yikes, I hope you’re feeling better now. These multi-symptom flus are really the worst!

You know, after we moved to India, everyone said to prepare for the attack of a whole new set of viruses, and – nothing happened.

I guess it turns out that avoiding crowded places and washing your hands frequently works in India too!:-)

-Neo

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Auroracoda was starting to get a little freaked out about that considering that she has spent the past three weeks with either a top side flu bug or a bottom side flu bug.

Auroracoda is most definitely tired of being sick.

Thank you SO much for posting this information! Auroracoda has saved it in her “important facts about India” folder for future reference!

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Great and critically important point. I should add that to my original post. Actually the best piece of advice I’ve gotten so far is to “never leave the patient alone”, except of course during surgeries. Actually, I have some friends where they get a trusted family physician to watch even the surgeries.

-Neo

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In my case, the nursing stuff was very young and very inexperienced as well, not what I’d expect from a hospital of that repute. We’d picked that hospital based on the recommendation of a trusted family friend (a doctor herself, who had worked there some years ago as a hospital administrator) and she hadn’t realized that the quality of staff had deteriorated. We later foind out that lot of their senior nursing staff had been poached by another hospital because they didn’t bother to compensate them adequately.

-DS (first time commentor, have been reading and enjoying your blog for a while)

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