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Early morning, breakfast completed and we were ready in no time! Destination? The beautiful coastline of Denmark, a bit of Helsingør, and if time permits, a bit of Copenhagen. The best part of a day-long outing is its planning. A lot of fun in the act of planning even though it is often hard to stick to the plan itself! Nevertheless, one needs to pack in as much fun in a single day as possible. So, planning is important! We needed to get to one end of our destination-spot right on time; there was no margin for error. We had to eat in between stopovers; we needed to take a bit of rest from time to time. We needed to feel happy all along; we did not want to get exhausted at the end of it all. The first stop was Klampenborg, a nice little suburb north of Copenhagen, Denmark. Piercing through the motorway from Sweden to the capital of Denmark is always a great experience. The roadway, the insignificant hillocks on the two sides, the half-open and half-closed Öresund bridge – ev...

These days…. These days I have been spending a lot of time with poetry, thanks to this wonderful book by Dr Rabinarayan Dash. Dr Dash has collected inspiration from his immediate surroundings, has assimilated those into this own thought process and has created imageries with words. Result: Clinical Trials, a book out of the ordinary! These days I am exploring it. These poems…. These poems are examples of conflicts. A physician, a healer and a practitioner – all in one – feels an inner dilemma. He is pained to see his lack of attachment to the humane aspect of doctoring. There is remorse, there is disbelief, there are questions and there are griefs. In one of the poems, the poet mentions “I have cited their sickness for the benefit of my own career/Have I forgotten that each man/Has a multiplicity of layers?” (Clinical Trials, 2016). These poems, in short, are created out of self-reflection done by a physician whereby he proclaims that science alone is hollow when it comes...