Monday, January 25, 2010

The quintessential Indian wedding feast

Guess what we do at wedding parties? We fill up ourselves to our hearts content. No dieting here in this part of the world. Yeah! We enjoy a steaming mutton rezala with our friends, we savor the uplifting taste of a kheerpuli (condensed milk sweetcake), and rub our tummies in satisfaction. Yeah, we guess we are still very neanderthal in these matters. But hey, don't complain until you get to taste one of those kheerpulis.
The dinner tables
The bride presented a ring by our president
A painting by the bride
The wedding crashers
Here is the bride groom
Yupppp...
Yeah!
All set for a tummy turmoil
Jaroori meeting mein hoo
Under the tuscan sun we feast
The two presidents at summit conference

Multitasking
Dual core multitasking
A rare connoisseur of betelnut

Monday, November 30, 2009

Images from a nature camp

Images from a camp held at Basudebpur, on 29/11/2009. Mostly spiders, insects and occassionally, people too.














Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Amass in transverse colon


This is what we dissected out from he transeverse colon of a middle aged lady. Entire ascending and transeverse colon was removed, to find only this little pedunculated mass with no features of local involvment or lymph nodes. Did we dissect out too much?
The middle and  ileocolic arteries have to be identified; middle colic artery has to be ligated; the ascending and most of the transverse colon are to be removed

Prepare the ileum for an ileotransverse anastomosis
The dissected specimen with the blackish lump (do you note the appendix poking out at the left?)
The mass within the colon, the walls of which are ...
... cut open
It has a stalk, and the base is surrounded by normal haustrous mucosa of colon
However, the surface is unlike any mucosa


Tuesday, January 20, 2009

An appendicectomy

This is the proverbial appendicectomy. For those who are not aquainted with the term, enjoy looking inside yourself.
Find the appendix (its that wormlike tube attached to the cecum)

Pull it out
Tie its base and supplying vessels
Cut it out
And there you go

Thursday, January 15, 2009

Call them the newborn

Have you delivered anybody out of his mothers womb? Chances are, most of the time they are just cute angels.

cute angelThey can make strange faces
They may be a little curved at wrong places

Sometimes, though, they are missing some limbs



rudimentary hand


rudimentary foot
Sometimes they are missing their skin

Or even their brain

Next generation sequencing: Part 1

 Imagine solving a puzzle with 100 pieces, each piece a centimeter in size, something like this: The genome is considerably larger than this...