Minds on Platter

Yes, you read it right! For how long have you been staring at the screen? Do you remember the last time you blinked….consciously? Photo by  Author I think you just did! Did you feel how much strain you had put on your eyes, a portion of which was relieved with this simple act? Blink again, because it is the simplest, yet most wonderful of pleasures life offers to us! Because it is one of the few luxuries we can still afford to have free of cost — inexpensive, and always at our disposal. I call it a luxury because, well…look around you — the world is a beautiful, intricate combination of colours! Photo by  Rodrigo Curi   on  Unsplash In a recent Ophthalmology lecture, as we droned through the parts of the eye that create tears — the lacrimal system — I was amazed by how this simple system keeps such important mechanisms in check. Let’s get some facts straight… Photo by  TeachMeAnatomy The  major lacrimal gland  is a small pouch that forms and contains t...

Did we even learn anything? Quote created by Author in YourQuote It has been almost two weeks since physical classes resumed in full swing, and it still feels guilty, as if we're enjoying an unearned privilege, or sucking on a very sweet toffee only to get a toothache later. Every time I see the lecture hall flooding with people, it takes me back two years, to the time we last enjoyed that luxury so carelessly and ungratefully.  It makes me think how often we spend most of our time sulking over things that aren't going right, only to find out later that they could have been much worse.  The pandemic should have been a rebirth of the human population, for those who came out of it were lucky to have been scarred in some way, but not damaged beyond repair.  The world, and every individual in it, had time to rethink their ways, such that had never been granted before (at least not in this ultra-fast age). It was as if the entire world had stopped, and not just us, so that th...