Thursday, June 18, 2015

Has anyone thought why negative news on statins started pouring in after Lipitor lost patent

It can't be a mere coincidence that statins started getting negative publicity after Lipitor lost patent. Over the next couple of days, I will try to bring out when were results from some of the major trials published and what did they say about statins. Hopefully, after few days, I would have some evidence that pharmaceutical companies either ignore the severe side effects, or play down what they claim as "life saving drugs" after it has lost patent so that patients can now start relying on some of the highly priced drugs and forget about cheaper alternatives!

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

NPS - Returns posted by various fund managers

Source: http://www.hdfcsec.com/data/docs/HDFCsec_PerformanceofPensionFunds.pdf

Saturday, May 23, 2015

What is failure

Over time, I have learnt that failure is often either failure to ask for help or help others in need

Saturday, January 3, 2015

Storytelling

I was amazed to see the kind of impact movies have on kids. Yesterday night, Nimish forced me to do a recap of entire movie that we saw couple of days back. The movie that I am talking about is PK. He was excited about couple of facts - it has aliens, alien went back and came to earth with his friends, police took bribe, alien bought an idol of one of our gods and did a prayer to get food..and instantly God listened!, alien asked whether God runs on a battery. Nimish still remember these things and I am wondering how small experiences like these shape up values, beliefs and perceptions of kids towards the world at large.