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The Vaccine Conundrum- part 2

I had earlier expressed my apprehensions about the vaccines, mainly because of their unproven status of the efficacy and safety. From yesterday the vaccines have been rolled out. The response seems to be lukewarm- all over India, 191000 got vaccinated out of the day’s target of 300000 and in Tamilnadu less than 3000 out of the target of 16600. Maybe more people will turn up in the coming days.…

The Vaccine Conundrum – the white elephant in the living room

All along we were waiting for a proper vaccine for the COVID-19. As a practising physician for the past 37 years, I had always been a proponent of evidence based medicine and naturally I have taken personally and recommended vaccines to my patients over the years. All those vaccines ( to name some chickenpox, Hepatitis,Typhoid,H1N1) before coming to us have gone through the full rigour of…

Fetal brain tumors are rare. Generally that causes a lot of doubts in the minds of the parents.

This was a 28-year-old lady, gravida 2, para 1, live 1 and nil abortion and non-consanguinous marriage. Her BPD ( 6.5 % tile) and HC ( 7 % tile) were less than 10 % tile. Mild ventriculomegaly was seen. ( 11.34 % tile). A careful look at the 3rd ventricle shows a solid mass. Some reconstructed images are given below. 70% of congenital fetal brain tumors are supratentorial  30% are infratentorial.…

The city is famous for the lakes and the monumental buildings within and around the lakes. Most of them are hotels and restaurants now.The following is not in any order of priority.

Lake Fateh Sagar and the surroundings.

Maharana Pratap Memorial is on a hill top on the Fateh Sagar lake road. There are good view points overlooking the “white city”.

There is a vintage and classic collection of cars.

Dudh Talal is a small lake close to the lake Pichola. M.L.Verma garden is adjacent. There is a Karni mata temple on a hill. There is a ropeway cable car connection to the hill top.

Lake Pichola is probably the star lake with the star  hotels.

The Jag Mandir is not a temple. It is a restaurant on an island in the lake.

The Taj lake palace hotel is also there.

The Oberoi hotels can also be seen.

But without doubt the super star attraction is the city palace.

The city palace complex has a residential quarters prohibited for views. The descendants of the princely family reside there. Then there is a 5 star hotel run by HRH -Historic Resort Hotels – Shiv Niwas. The city palace museum is where the tourists throng. This whole complex is still controlled by the former ruler’s family.  The complex as seen from the water front.

The museum has a lot of interesting stuff to see.

The royals had a good view of the city and also the lake.

Theme weddings also happen here.

The current descendants live in this.

Sahelion ki bari is the garden of the maidens.

Of course there are other beautiful places missed in this short account.

There are some general tips. Ola cabs are very useful to move around. But the lanes around the city palace complex are very narrow and autos or walking around could save more time. We travel mostly on general holidays. The traffic congestion in the narrow roads could be testing.