Reflections of a brilliant surgeon

It was 1956, Ward 1C, SMS Hospital, Jaipur, the clinic of Dr LM Sanghvi, cardiologist, this reviewer’s late father. An MD student’s prescription was being discussed before the group of resident doctors; the young cardiologist was being pulled up because he had prescribed a diuretic at bedtime. The incident underlined that healing is more than just cure...

Offering you funds that invest abroad is the flavour of the season. Stay away from these for now

Fund companies will never pass up an opportunity to jump at a new fad and to launch a new fund based on it. The latest is the fad to invest overseas. New offers with an overseas focus are lined up the way aircrafts line up at the Mumbai airport for takeoff in the morning. If Standard Chartered is...

How Udavum Karangal, which literally means Helping Hands, is making a difference to many lives reports MoneyLIFE Bureau

The story began in 1983 when Vidyaakar, armed with a master’s degree in social work, began to work in the slums of N.S.K. Nagar in Chennai, offering counselling and guidance. One day, a rickshaw-puller brought him a wailing, dehydrated baby, which had been abandoned at the...