July 2026

The Hidden Curriculum Article Three of Three   The Weight That Cannot Be Taught Every profession that touches life, death, or trust eventually asks you to carry something no syllabus described.   The Weight with No Name in Any Textbook The hidden curriculum of any profession is not only about skills. Contracts can be learned. […]

The Hidden Curriculum Article Two of Three   The Subjects Nobody Taught Knowledge creates competence. Life demands judgment. And judgment belongs to no single discipline.   The Door Education Never Mentioned There is a moment in every professional life when a door opens that education never once described. It may arrive as a contract full

The Hidden Curriculum (Article One of Three) 1.The Day the Real Examination Began INTRODUCTION: Why I Wrote This Series?   There are moments in the life of a profession when silence is no longer wisdom.   Over the past few years, medicine has witnessed a disturbing convergence of events. Incidents of violence against doctors have

The Watchers, the Watched, and the Rules We Haven’t Written Yet A Neurosurgeon’s View of the Coming Age of EYE-Wearable Intelligence — Part Two   It has already begun twenty minutes from where I operate   In June, legislators in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly raised an alarm that would have sounded, a decade ago, like

The Day AI Began Looking Through Our Eyes A Neurosurgeon’s View of the Coming Age of EYE-Wearable Intelligence   A few days ago, I watched a young woman walking down a busy street. She was smiling, talking to herself, glancing at shopfronts and strangers with the easy confidence of someone in conversation.   Except there

आनंदाच्या पलीकडे – सुख आणि आनंद एकच का नाहीत?  चुकीचा प्रश्न ? लोक अनेकदा मला विचारतात कोणत्या शस्त्रक्रियेने तुम्हाला सर्वांत जास्त आनंद दिला? हा प्रश्न का विचारला जातो, हे मला समजते. मेंदूच्या शस्त्रक्रियेभोवती एक विशिष्ट गूढता असते जीवन आणि मृत्यू यांच्यातील -नाट्य, प्रकाश आणि उपकरणांच्या एका रंगमंचावर संकुचित झालेले. पण हा प्रश्न चुकीचा आहे आणि

Beyond Happiness – Why सुख (Pleasure) Is Not the Same as आनंद (Contentment) The Wrong Question People often ask me which operation gave me the greatest happiness. I understand why they ask it. Brain surgery carries a certain mythology — the drama of life and death compressed into a theatre of light and instruments. But

अहंकार की खोज – हम पूरी जिंदगी “कोई बनने” की दौड़ में क्यों लगे रहते हैं?  ज़रा सोचिए – एक नवजात बछड़ा जन्म के एक घंटे के भीतर अपने पैरों पर खड़ा हो जाता है। कछुए के बच्चे, अपने माँ-बाप को कभी देखे बिना, सीधे समुद्र की तरफ रेंगते चले जाते हैं। प्रकृति ने लगभग

अहंकाराचा शोध – आपण आयुष्यभर “कोणीतरी” बनण्याच्या मागे का धावतो?  कल्पना करा – एक नवजात वासरू जन्मल्यानंतर एका तासात स्वतःच्या पायावर उभं राहतं. कासवाची पिल्लं, आई-वडिलांना कधीही न बघता, थेट समुद्राच्या दिशेने रांगत जातात. निसर्गाने जवळजवळ प्रत्येक प्राण्याला जन्मताच जगण्याचं तंत्र देऊन टाकलंय.   आणि माणसाचं बाळ? महिनोन्महिने ते स्वतःची मानही धरू शकत नाही.  

The Quest of the Ego – Why We Spend Our Lives Trying to Become Somebody  The Paradox of Human Birth Among all living creatures, human beings begin life with a remarkable disadvantage. A newborn foal struggles to its feet within an hour of birth. A calf instinctively searches for its mother’s milk. Sea turtles, having