Index and Table of Contents

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
  10. 1570 - Raison D'Etre - 22 Dec 2024
  11. 1569 - The Reminiscence Bump - 29 Dec 2024
  12. 1568 - December Madness Revisited and Maintaining Sanity - 05 Jan 2025
  13. 1567 - The Andamans are the Goa of the 90s - 12 Jan 2025
  14. 1566 - Shows and Concerts in Mumbai...Are They Worth the Trouble Attending - 20 Jan 2025

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...

6.8 https://www.bhavinj.com/mfm6-8/ - Dec 2010

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