CULTURAL QA03-2024-24 Allthe below QA are from QUORA DIGEST tome on 24-03-2024.
SelectedQuora answers by scholars generally interesting are included. Still they need not be 100%correct answers.Onejoke is included. Compiled and posted by R Gopalakrishnan, 80, on 24-3-2024 Q1 What is anexample of true love conquers all? A1 ChristySchaefer,23h A 6-year old boy was in the market with his 3-yearold sister... Suddenly the boy found that his sister was laggingbehind. He stopped and looked back - his sister was standingin front of a toy shop and was watching something with great interest. The boy went back to her and asked, "Do you wantsomething?" The sister pointed at the doll. The boy held her hand and like a responsible elderbrother, gave that doll to her.The sister was very very happy... The shopkeeper was watching everything and gettingamused to see the matured behaviour of the boy... the boy came to the counterand asked the shopkeeper, "What is the cost of this doll Sir?" The shopkeeper was a kind man and had experienced theodds of life. So he asked the boy with a lot of love n affection,“Well, what can you pay?" The boy took out shells that he had collected fromsea shore, from his pocket and gave them to the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper took the shells and started countingas if he were counting the currency. Then he looked at the boy. The boy asked him worriedly, "Is it too littleSir?" The shopkeeper said, "No, no... these are morethan the cost. So I will return the remaining." Saying so, he kept only 4 shells and returned theremaining. The boy, very happily put the shells back in hispocket and left with his sister. An employee was very surprised watching all this. He asked the shopkeeper, "Sir, you gave awaysuch a costly doll just for 4 shells?" The shopkeeper said with a smile, "Well, for usthese are mere shells, but for that boy, these shells are very precious. And at this age he does not understand what money isyet, but when he grows up, he definitely will. And then he would remember that he purchased a dollwith shells instead of money, and he will remember me and think that world isstill full of good and kind people.." Credit to the Respectful Owner Q2 What is thebiggest hypocrisy you have ever witnessed? A2 VijayaLakshmi, Retired Finance manager at Coal India Limited (A MaharatnaCompany)Updated 5y This happened a few decades ago. One of my niece wanted to marry a boy who was notfrom our caste. Her parents were dead-set against this marriage. Her brother-in-law (elder sister’s husband) used tofrequently visit us. “See, theseold people are very orthodox. They won’t marry her to the boy she loves. So Iwill help her to marry the boy she loves. I will give full support to her,” hewould say. Both, my husband and I, were very happy with hisbroad-mindedness. He used to visit us every three to four days, andgive us the updates about the wedding plans. He used to strongly criticize the mentality of herparents for not agreeing to the marriage. After a few days, he suddenly stopped visiting us. We both were confused. “What mighthave happened? Have the girl’s parents threatened that they would commitsuicide? Did he stop visiting us due to that?” we wondered. There was no telephone to communicate in those days. After waiting for 10–15 days, we went to his house tofind out the reason. “How are thewedding preparations going on?” my husband asked “I am withdrawing myself from all thesepreparations,” he said with a dejection in his voice. “Why? Whathappened? Are the parents too rigid? Are they threatening you?” “No, theyagreed to the marriage,” he said angrily. “They agreed?Then why is he angry? He was the person who was looking forward to thismarriage!” we wondered. “You see, byagreeing to this marriage, they lost their respect in our community, and I lost the opportunityof gaining a good name by doing a social reform. No, this is not properon their part. They should have stuck to their original decision.” So all he wanted was fame! Height ofhypocrisy! Q3 you give mean example of British humour? A3 AllanClark, Former Retired; Too Much Time on My Hands7h A man walks into a pub on a Friday and orders twopints of beer; sits and drinks from both alternately. He does this for a fewweeks before the curious landlord asks him why: “A gooddrinking mate of mine - every Friday after work - has moved to Australia, so weagreed that every Friday after work* we’d drink a toast to each other.” The lanlord thought that that was so touching, andtold him so. After a while the man comes in and orders a singlepint, sits quietly and finishes it. The landlord noticed of course, and said “Isee you’re only drinking one pint; I hope that doesn’t mean something’shappened to your mate - he didn’t die or something?” “Oh no,nothing like that, it’s just that I’ve become a teetotaler.” Q4 What do youeat daily for lunch and dinner? A4 Rama G, Livesin Bengaluru, Karnataka, India2h I can tell aboutsouth Indian , Andhra meals. What we prepare at home. This is one day lunch menu.Not all items. 4 minimum items, 6 maximum. Papad, powders, pickles etc. will bethere always. 1.pappu( lentil)with any vegetables. Like tomato, mango, leafy vegetables, cucumber, bottle gourd, ridgegourd etc. 2. Vegetablecurry and one veg shallow fry. Example. Indian broad beans curry, yam fry, dondakayafry etc. Which I make at my home. We consume curries more than fries. 3.Any vegetablechutney. Like, tomato, gongura, coconut, mango, bottle gourd,ridge gourd, brinjal cucumber etc. 4.Sambar orkhadi or majjiga pulusu, or avial Finally curd. Menu changes daily. No roti for lunch. No rice fordinner. Night pulka, roti, broken wheat kichidi withvegetables. Daal, sabji. (One of them. Not all) Since we arefamily of 8 members, these many items are needed. Because everyone may not like every thing.So, atleast one favourite item will be there for them. I eat everything in lunch but with one cup of cookedrice. Sometimes another 1/4 th cup is added. I have to walk more that day😄 Night time, one pulka with 1 bowl daal, one bowlsabji I have. Before 8 PM. Small snacks in between meals are always fruits andwater. Not exotic fruits. Desi seasonal fruits. Some times I cheat with ‘mirchi bajjis.’ Anything traditional, native, seasonal will appeal tome. Q5 What is oneskill you have that you are most proud of? Tiny Nair, Cardiologist at PRS Hospital, Trivandrum 10months The skill of listening. Case She had a developed ‘new-onset’ breathlessness onwalking. An angiogram done at another hospital showed ablock in the right coronary artery for which she was advised anangioplasty. She came in for asecond opinion. She wanted me to study her angiogram reports in detailand give an opinion. ‘First tell meall about your illness’ I could sense that her son was becoming restless.They had come for an opinion on the angiogram, and here I was wasting theirtime. ‘It allstarted after I travelled back to India from US after spending 6 months with mydaughter.’ ‘Ok. Tell me more about how itbegan’ ‘Oh well I was upset leaving my daughter, unlike theexcitement of going to US and meeting her 6 months back’ ‘I understand’ ‘Returnjourney was bad. Flight was delayed. I had to spend 16 hours sitting straightin the aircraft……’ ‘ummm’ ‘I never toldmy daughter or anyone about how bad the return journey was. I had severe pain in my legs fora week on my return.’ ‘Leg pain?Which part?’ ‘Here – and then thisbreathlessness started.’ Classical history of Chronic Thromboembolic PulmonaryHypertension. I sent her for a CT PA (CT scan of pulmonaryarteries) which as expected revealed extensive bilateral thrombus (clot). D-dimer waselevated. Leg vein dopplershowed residual thrombus in deep veins. It is a disease called ‘Chronic thromboembolicpulmonary hypertension’ where blood clots travel from legs to lungs. In chroniccases, showers of clots go to the lungs in batches. The patient becomes more and more breathless oneffort. The blocks in the angiogram were just ‘innocentbystanders’; a decoy. Treated with blood thinners she improved. Listening, isdifferent from hearing. It is pretty impressive that human ear can pick upsound from a broad range of 20 hz to 20,000 hz. Don’t boast of it, even thedocile 2-ton elephant can pick up sounds as faint as 14 hz; so be careful whenyou talk bad about the elephant in the zoo next time, he might just hear you. Listening ispaying attention to what you hear. When I got into medical college and got interested incardiology, they told me that I should try to practice hearing softer sounds ‘with the stethoscope’to be a better cardiologist. Introduction of the 10,000 USDechocardiogram machine took that charm out of me. In 5-minutes, it would tellme about a valve disease far more accurately than my ear could ever make out. But listening is different. Listening carefully to what the patient says is farmore valuable in diagnosis. Unlike what most people believe, machines don’tmake a diagnosis. A provisional diagnosis is confirmed by a machine / test.Most diagnostic machines, scanners and blood tests have a high sensitivity topick up pathology. But to know which pathology is creating trouble for thepatient, you need to choose your tools carefully. And to decide which tool willconfirm your hunch, you need to listen to the patient. Hear all that thepatient says and make sense of it, only then, hearing turns to listening.Remember, a multi-slice CT scan of brain of a dead patient looks normal. Incontrast, a patient with an elevated blood potassium level (seen in Chronickidney disease) could simulate an acute heart attack in the ECG, despite noheart disease.. Tests, unless interpreted in proper perspective, could bedeceptive. And that’s where the importance of listening comes in. faintest criticism 50 meters away but won’t enjoy aBeethoven or A.R.Rahman. Hearingis not akin to listening. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1188861338.519588.1711288497799%40mail.yahoo.com.
