Stray Thoughts

I drifted into the Charitable -Voluntary- NGO sector  more than 30 years ago when I started   working in a rural clinic in India as a young doctor. At that time it wasn't a 'sector' and many friends and associates would fail to understand what I was doing and it was difficult to explain what I did other than attending patients . The new way of working in rural communities, which I learnt initially more by hit and miss rather than design was exhilarating. It allowed me to arrange for providing essential health care services in a way people found more acceptable. I learnt of and met others who were similarly engaged and also learnt from them. It became apparent that this new frame of working , which was becoming known as the NGO, was an appropriate vehicle for serving my own aspirations to both understand and serve. There were several agencies that provided financial support if they felt that the work we did was useful.  Over the years the NGO sector became more formal...

  Murder of live-in partners The morning newspaper a few days ago had the grisly news of how young man from Delhi killed his live-in partner with a mobile charging cable and then stuffed her body into a fridge! This incident was eerily similar to another incident reported about three months ago, also from Delhi where another young man had murdered his live-in girlfriend, chopped her body into 35 pieces, and over the next 16 days disposed the pieces. He did this in May last year and had managed to keep it secret till November! Before one could say “Goodness, what is with these young men from Delhi!”, there was a news in the next morning’s newspaper about a young man from Mumbai this time, who had killed his live-in girlfriend and then stuffed her body into a box bed. Apparently he had murdered her a few days ago and decamped from the flat where they lived. It was only after the foul smell drew people’s attention that the foul deed was discovered. If this were a detective serial one ...