Health

Note: To read the first part of this series, click here. It's 4 pm on June 2. This is my due date. I am now 6 cm dilated and at the labor room with my husband, both of us changed into hospital wear. It's showtime. Le husband rings up my mom…

My mother says I was born with a list of questions on my mind. She says I used to ask why why why in a loop about everything around me till it pissed her off. That habit never left me. When the time came for marriage I asked my now husband…

Everything man creates begins in the form of thought. Napoleon Hill in his book "Think and Grow Rich" writes that thoughts are things. Our daily thinking shapes our character, environment around us and also our future. In the words of…

Note: This is the second part of the series names Surgical Diaries. To read its first part, click here. (Editor) The Insufflator beeped periodically in the background, its prongs lodged firmly within the abdomen of Mrs. S. The surgical…

As the scrub nurse trolleyed the operative bed into Operation Theatre number 2—or OT 2, for short—its versatile wheels clattered against the marble tiles lining the hospital floor. Large, dark-black colored surgical bins beckoned in the…

Ramadan, the month of fasting which falls on the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar is the most religiously significant time of year for Muslims throughout the world. It marks the month in which the Quran—the holy book of Islam—was…