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Two Old Men, Two Little Girls, and the Curious Business of Healing I recently reread Silas Marner and Heidi, and found myself wondering whether George Eliot and Johanna Spyri had accidentally written case notes. Not medical case notes, admittedly. No blood pressure readings. No MRI scans. No laboratory investigations. Yet there they are: two elderly men, both isolated, both suspicious of the…

There was a time in India when parents told children, “Beta, go out and see the world.”What they actually meant was: “Go out, become successful, but preferably within a 7-kilometre radius from home and return before dinner.” Today we have a full generation of adults who can perform laparoscopic surgery, write software for German companies, discuss cryptocurrency, explain attachment theory on…

What I like about museums is that they are full of dead people who refuse to mind their own business. You enter quietly, preferably after paying thirty rupees extra because you are carrying a camera nobody will ever use, and immediately somebody from the 2nd century BC starts interfering with your emotional life. An old brass pot stares at you.A sword with rust problems judges your modern…