Index and Table of Contents

Counting Down to 90

1. 1579 - The concept explained - 20 Oct 2024
2. 1578 - The third and fourth things, two and three degrees of separation and privilege - 27 Oct 2024
3. 1577 - Diwali, tootprints, immortality, purpose - 03 Nov 2024
4. 1576 - When Besserwissers and Isguzars Violate Your Shifgrethor - 10 Nov 2024
5. 1575 - Backseat Bullets, Taj Mahal, Veer Zaara, Arcane - 17 Nov 2024
6. 1574 - Conferences, Timeliness, Doctor Behavior and Dharma, Murgi and Dal - 24 Nov 2024
7. 1573 - Blessed: Music, Matunga, Moments - 01 Dec 2024
8. 1572 - Concerts, Comebacks and Insults, Gen Y Parents with Brain Rot - 08 Dec 2024
9. 1571 - Animated Shows, All My Love, Mist - 15 Dec 2024

Man From Matunga Chronicles

These are from the a compilation I had created for a book

1. The Milestones

1.1 Biwi No 1 (Or...Khalid Mohammed Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hain) - 08 June 1999
1.2 Black, White and Various Shades of Brown - Nov 1999
1.3 Mapless In Matunga - 04 Jun 2005
1.4 What I Write About When I Write About Running - 27 Dec 2008

2. The Funnies

2.1 The Top Ten Ways of Becoming Fair - Sep 2000
2.2 The Top Ten Rules that Mumbai Taxi-Drivers Follow for Passenger Comfort and Satisfaction - Feb 2000
2.3 The Awards’ Scam - Aug 1999
2.4 The Art of Spitting (A PhD Thesis Proposal) - Aug 1999
2.5 Desis of the World Unite (...Or You May Lose Your Netentity) - Nov 1999
2.6 Pyaarimausi.com (Lovingaunt.com) - A Modern Day Fairy Tale - Apr 2000
2.7 The Least Polluted City in the World - Jan 2000
2.10 Indian Standard Time and Conferences - Oct 1999

3. Matunga

3.23 Tull They Come - 13 Jan 2006
3.24 Concerts in Contrast - 09 Jul 2006

4. All About Old, Really Old Friends

5. This Maximum City of Ours...

6. ...Its Seasons...

7. ...And its Food

8. We are Like That Only...

8.1 Of Plagiarism, Mid-Day and chalomumbai.com - Jul 2000

9. ...And We Offer Services Also Like That Only!

10. I, Me, Myself...As an Individual...

10.1 I Am Finally Published - Apr 2001
10.8 No Horn "Athai" - Dec 2007

11. ...And as a Parent

12. The New Wired World

13. The Movies

Man From Matunga - Miscellaneous (Not in the Chronicles Book)

1. Of Sitcoms - 01 Jun 1999
2. Damned if You Do, Damned if You Don't - 06 Mar 2006

Mumbai Mirror (2004-2014)

1. Two Degrees of Separation - 28 Aug 2005
2. Matungaiites Everywhere - 26 Oct 2006
3. Through Someone Else's Looking Glass - 31 Jan 2009
4. Sossegado! - 30 Oct 2009
5. What is Your Third Thing? - 24 Jun 2011
6. The Problem is Me...Not Them...(...Or Every Place in India is Not Mumbai) - 28 Oct 2011
7. Random Saurashtra Notes - 09 Nov 2013

Radiology Musings

(Arranged Date-Wise)

1. Crosstalk - 15 May 2023
2. Lessons Learnt from the Translumbar Aortogram - 20 May 2023
3. From Diagnosis to Dictation to Writinhg to Searches - How I Use AI in 2024 - 15 Jul 2024

Medical Musings

(Arranged Date-Wise)

1. Koi Andar Aaya Tha Kya? - 27 may 2023
2. Choosing the Right Doctor: The Futility and Uselessness of Google Search and Reviews, Online Aggregators and Social Media Platforms - 01 Jul 2023
3. Earning Respect Rather than Demanding it - 30 Jul 2023
4. Is My Worth as a Doctor Just a Function of How Fast I Pick Up the Phone? - 20 Nov 2023
5. Crosstalk: "Pag Ma Dukhe Che" (Gujarati for My Foot is Paining) - 23 Dec 2023

General Musings

(Arranged Date-Wise)

1. The Pipe-Dream of a Developed Society - 24 Sep 2023
2. Running on the Roads of Mumbai or Any City in India - Who is Responsible for Your Safety? - 03 Oct 2023
3. Feral to Big Brother in 40 Years - 09 Jan 2024
4. The Invasion of the Pest Parents - 22 Jan 2024
5. Swiping Left on the WhatsApp Wedding Invite - 01 Mar 2024
6. Why the Expressway to Pune Being Jammed Today and Yesterday is a Sign of Voter Apathy - 19 May 2024
7. Our Burden of the Time Tax - 03 Aug 2024

IJRI Editorials

(Written when I was the Editor-in-Chief from 2007 to 2013)

1. A Fresh Start - May 2007
2. Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V: Writing Papers Can't Get Any Easier - Jun 2007
3. The Times...They are a-Changing - Aug 2007
4. A Year in Retrospect - Nov 2007

Matunga

1. Mapless in Matunga - 04 Jun 2005
2. Two Degrees of Separation - 28 Aug 2005
3. Tull They Come - 13 Jan 2006
4. Tull in the Backyard - 01 Feb 2006
5. Concerts in Contrast - 09 Jul 2006
6. Matungaiites Everywhere - 26 Oct 2006
7. Above King's Circle - 24 Aug 2021

Running

(Anything and everything to do with running, etc)

1. What I Write About When I Write About Running - 27 Dec 2008
2. Running on the Roads of Mumbai or Any City in India - Who is Responsible for Your Safety? - 03 Oct 2023