Dr. Bharat Desai's Blog

I know the title create some ambiguity around its meaning. Here’s the story: the author was a medical student studying at Surat during 1969-1974. Being an off…

An  Adivasi girl Sangita at Nahari Hotel , Pangarbari (near Wilson Hills, Gujarat) teaches us the Indian culture and way of welcoming guests! On 15-Jun-201…

This is a rare story of how a person from Valsad (Gujarat) turned into someone serving Aadivasi (tribal) girls far away from his home in the interiors of the…

It was a Thursday, otherwise a working day at my hospital, but I chose to declare it a holiday because my friend Sanjay Mahant and I asked each other to go f…

In Greece, there is a law about marriages. It forces you to give a detailed advertisement of marriage decision telling about both bride and groom.... one mon…

Your mouth must actively be closed. Or else, bacteria, insects and unwanted calories will be engulfed leading to diseases, obesity and other undesired troubl…

After getting married, the wife changes her name and adds husband's name. Similarly, the husband should also add wife's name to his. And both can drop…

If you want to ignore strict dieting and stress of not getting to eat this and that... Be diet conscious! Let us start afresh... Avoid cakes in any cele…

Think this over. The ratio of the male-female population today is 1000:920, meaning 100:92, or to be simplest 10:9. Meaning thereby if every 9 women marry one …

As far as you are sharing your views, events and a few of your photos, everything is fair enough and natural. If you are too much eager to ask for so many like…

Girls do " Gauri Vrat " to get a good husband. After getting one, they do " Kadava Chouth " and " Vat Savitri Poonam Vrat ". This…

Present day thinking leads to breaking a relation on many occasions. It is undesirable but still natural. Don't get panicked about it; relax and think over…

When you hear or read some intelligent people like Osho, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev or any alike, you start agreeing to whatever they say. Not because you are his…

When you are happy and relaxed, you feel everything is going well. This results in the negligence of four must s for health: Exercise Diet consciousness …

We receive messages in conversations and communications, and a reply or at least some response is expected by the sender. But more often than not, this replyi…

We are social animals. We have friends and relatives. Being socially attached, we need and desire to meet them. So the question is: Where do you meet them now…

Whatever smartness or intelligence one has, to anticipate the probable attitude of the future partner is difficult. So for the continuation of the marriage, ad…

Are credit cards a BOON? – YES. Are credit cards a CURSE? – YES. You may be surprised reading this answer to these questions appearing rather simple. But t…

How does someone's habit bother you? What is your concern about a person's habit? Before discussing about the habits in general and bad habits in p…

A self-destroying compulsion, what really is Comparison ? We mean it as an evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more persons/entities to s…

Air, water and food are must for a life, we know. But, many of us do not know that sleep is the fourth most essential for life giving sound body and mind. Loss…

Generally, the wedding of a daughter is event parents plan from the day of her birth. They start saving money and dream about the son-in-law to be. But all th…

Money. How much is enough? Present time has created an impression that more the money more the happiness. Poverty makes a person inferior in this society, how…

My random thoughts on the demise of a mother. What do I understand while pronouncing “mother”? I do not need to go far away. I just see so many mothers ar…

While being surrounded by strangers struggling with their problems at a public place, say, in a lift, in a waiting room, in a queue at the bank, cinema, or…

We understand, only bacterias, viruses and fungi spread infection and they are contagious. But there are many behavioural factors that lead to their own spread…

Wabi-Sabi is a Japanese philosophy that celebrates-respects "age" and the imperfections created by ageing (usually in inanimate objects like vases, w…

All over the world, the lines of the palm on the hand are thought to be deciding the fate of an individual. There is a study describing the reading of this l…

Activeness on Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter and Blog If you want to be active on all these social media platforms, do so. Do not hesitate. Do express all y…

I am happy to address my readers once again with a very important subject of day-to-day problems: Stress. Stress is a force that strains and deforms. People, …

Facebook Friends More the number of friends, more the time needed to see their updates and respond. Sometimes, one feels it is a waste of time. So better…

When should a doctor retire? Your reply is a must...

ICU (Intensive Care Unit). It is the most alert and up-to-date department in a hospital. Minimum expectations of the patient admitted here are would be: Th…

Addiction Internet users with Facebook, Whatsapp, Emails and what not, very well know the (usefulness and) uselessness of the continuous connectivity and sti…

Addiction to be attended to as an emergenc y Beware if you are seeing in your mobile/computer while being with someone talking to you. You are missing a grea…

Just owning a camera does not make you a photographer! You have to learn the fundamentals of photography and technical know-how of cameras, or you will com…

After Parsis, Anavils ( Anavil Brahmins , અનાવિલ બ્રાહ્મણ ) are the fastest decreasing community. The total population of Anavils around the world does not e…

The sun is hot, so provides heat... It's enlightened, so provides light... Gujarati synonyms for the sun are  Suraj (સૂરજ), Bhaskar (ભાસ્કર), Rav…

Being a member of the male-dominated culture and having an Anavil inheritance of male-ego, I was wrongly considering myself superior to my wife Dr Bhavana D…

We visit Saputara (the only hill station in Gujarat) round the year for pleasure trips. Similarly, the devotees of Sai Baba visit Shirdi frequently. For a c…

Whatever idealistic discussions we do, there are certain emotions that come out without our will – involuntarily. Hatred is one of them. I shall introduce the …

Computer users having internet connection are most of the time restricted to Social Media like "Facebook" or just reading E-mails received. Here is a…

Respect : If someone respects you, you like that. If someone respects you, you reciprocate by respecting him/her. (The person concerned may be good or bad.…

Destination Wedding : It is a wedding event generally held far away from residences of the would-be couple. Here, the wedding is hosted in a location where g…

Praise : We are fond of being a man in the crowd of the herd, having a herd mentality, just copying and doing what others do... be it praising Sachin Tendulka…

We often get impressed by someone very easily and carried away to praise, appreciate and raise above oneself. All around us follow and a big crowd of followers…

Take a pledge this Dasserra: Decide the dates for meeting parents staying away If by chance your parents are staying away from you, fix minimum two to th…

Your Relations/Friends and You ! Every relation has three possible situations: Relation with both Love and Respect Relation, but neither Love nor Respect  …

Check whether you have any one of the following: You have stopped long walks, though you are not physically unfit. You have started eating more than you we…

I say, do not remove shoes outside the house! People expecting or demanding you to remove the shoes outside their entrance must be sure of a clean and smooth…

Agenda: ‘Lecture on Organ Donation and Body Donation’ – by Dr Prafull Shiroya (Lokdrushti Trust, Surat) ‘Problems of a Blind Person & Her/his Developme…

Present generation young people talk and express their views most of the times in English . But when it comes to expressing personal emotions of love and aff…

Facebook activeness demands offering/sharing your views and getting the responses from your FB friends. If you do not share anything, all you are left with i…

Our recent tour of Kutch landed an interesting coincidence. I (Dr Bharat Desai), my wife Dr Bhavana, and our friends Dr Vijay Desai, his wife Meena Desai, Bep…

Workshop by parents of a son and/or daughter on marriage is a must. Parents should enlist and explain in details the Do's and Dont's for succes…

Creative genius Swami Vivekananda gave guidance to the youth of the world and showed the light to all. Mr A R K Sharma, a Gold medalist in Science and Electro…

For those who do not learn from history, history teaches them a lesson at a great cost. We - the Indians - neither create history nor read history, and so w…

In a lifetime, we often face a situation called PROBLEM. And facing this makes us tense and stressful. I am trying, in this article, to come out with a formul…

When I started writing on my blog , I used to ask myself if I should write at all. If yes, why? I would like to share my views on this topic with you. I wri…

A student of History has to understand Geography, Economics and Anthropology simultaneously. A person curious to know about world history has to proceed step …