It was on this day, 200 years ago, that the stethoscope was invented!
Rene Laennec(1781 - 1826), a French physician, invented the by-now-universal medical equipment and pioneered its use in diagnosing various chest conditions. Interestingly, before this invention, a doctor used to place his ear on the chest of his patients! The invention was initially called the 'chest examiner' and with it, the doctor was able to study the different sounds of the heart, classifying them as healthy or unhealthy. Dr. Rene Laennec was criticised, initially, for his invention!
Google has honoured him with a doodle.
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2. Nawaz Sharif's admission.
While addressing a rally in Muzaffarabad, the Pakistani PM had made a candid admission that
the then Indian PM Vajpayee felt that he'd been stabbed in the back with the Kargil misadventure
because it had come about soon after the Lahore declaration. The author of the misadventure,
then General Pervez Musharraf, had sent army regulars in the garb of militants to occupy the
Kargil heights so as to cut off the Srinagar - Leh highway in May '99.
The funniest thing is that the blighter has not been taken to task by the people for having let the
country down! And can its army ever forget their bosses' refusal to accept the corpses of the
slained personnel insisting that they're terrorists, lest their game plan got known to the entire
world?
It was left to the magnanimous Indian Army to give the departed, a decent and dignified farewell!
3. The Lionisation of Afzal Guru and Yakub Memon.
I'm baffled by the students - or are they outside elements? - of the JNU, New Delhi and the
Jadavpur University, Calcutta lionising Afzal Guru and Yakub Memon. They continue to do
so with impunity fully aware of the fact that the duo had worked against the Indian state. I've
this strong feeling that the fifth columnists are inciting the students without the latter realising
that they're mere puppets to a sinister design!
The earlier the students realise it, the better.
Tailpiece.
The action of a section of lawyers, taking law into their own hands, at the Patiala House Court in New Delhi is condemnable and despicable.
Rene Laennec(1781 - 1826), a French physician, invented the by-now-universal medical equipment and pioneered its use in diagnosing various chest conditions. Interestingly, before this invention, a doctor used to place his ear on the chest of his patients! The invention was initially called the 'chest examiner' and with it, the doctor was able to study the different sounds of the heart, classifying them as healthy or unhealthy. Dr. Rene Laennec was criticised, initially, for his invention!
Google has honoured him with a doodle.
* * *
2. Nawaz Sharif's admission.
While addressing a rally in Muzaffarabad, the Pakistani PM had made a candid admission that
the then Indian PM Vajpayee felt that he'd been stabbed in the back with the Kargil misadventure
because it had come about soon after the Lahore declaration. The author of the misadventure,
then General Pervez Musharraf, had sent army regulars in the garb of militants to occupy the
Kargil heights so as to cut off the Srinagar - Leh highway in May '99.
The funniest thing is that the blighter has not been taken to task by the people for having let the
country down! And can its army ever forget their bosses' refusal to accept the corpses of the
slained personnel insisting that they're terrorists, lest their game plan got known to the entire
world?
It was left to the magnanimous Indian Army to give the departed, a decent and dignified farewell!
3. The Lionisation of Afzal Guru and Yakub Memon.
I'm baffled by the students - or are they outside elements? - of the JNU, New Delhi and the
Jadavpur University, Calcutta lionising Afzal Guru and Yakub Memon. They continue to do
so with impunity fully aware of the fact that the duo had worked against the Indian state. I've
this strong feeling that the fifth columnists are inciting the students without the latter realising
that they're mere puppets to a sinister design!
The earlier the students realise it, the better.
Tailpiece.
The action of a section of lawyers, taking law into their own hands, at the Patiala House Court in New Delhi is condemnable and despicable.
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