Author Archives: Bhavin Jankharia

A Dislocated Jaw in Mid-Air

A couple of month ago, I was on my way back from Bhubaneshwar with a couple of other doctor friends. I was trying to catch up on some shows on my iPAD and had my noise-canceling QC-20 earphones on, when one of my colleagues nudged me. I looked at him and he signalled me to […]

May 8, 2016 – 11:42 am | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in Medicine, Peeves & Rants | Tagged , , | Comments (34)

Why I Did not Return All Those Valentine’s Day Greetings!!!

Wikipedia says that Valentine’s Day was first introduced in India around 1992 due to channels like MTV. Perhaps! My wife and I, fossils that we now seem to be, started celebrating this day around 1986. It used to be a special day for us when we would reiterate our love for each other and exchange […]

February 18, 2016 – 11:43 am | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in Peeves & Rants, Social Commentary | Comments (18)

The Shared Blanket Issue – A Review of Dil Dhadakne Do

There is a scene in the film Dil Dhadakne Do (DDD), when Ms. Shefali Shah and Mr. Anil Kapoor are in bed on board a cruise ship. Their relationship is one of contempt for each other, and if they were living in the US, they would have been divorced ages ago. They are both under […]

June 7, 2015 – 12:35 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in Films | Comments (16)

It’s Not Just Maggi!

A few years ago, before I was bumped off by her, my lunch used to come from Ms. Vijaya Venkat’s health service. She would make it a point to keep telling us about the five white poisons; sugar, salt, maida, oil and milk and her vegetarian food used to be extraordinarily good despite the minimal […]

June 5, 2015 – 2:59 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in Food, Running & Fitness | Tagged , , | Comments (21)

The “Chubbies” of Club Mahindra

We are not Club Mahindra members, but this year when we thought of a short holiday in Munnar, this was the only property everyone said we must visit. It is also among the few Club Mahindra properties that has hotel rooms given out to non-members and we managed to get a booking. The property is […]

June 4, 2015 – 4:30 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in Peeves & Rants, Social Commentary, The Funnies, Travel | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (21)

Review: The Sidhus of Upper Juhu

This is the first of a series of short reviews of movies, plays and shows that I have seen and books I have read over the last one month or so. Let’s start with a play I saw 3 weeks ago. A few school friends decided on a sudden whim to book tickets for The […]

May 29, 2015 – 2:34 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in General, Plays | Comments (15)

Review: Avengers: Age of Ultron

This follows the run-up to the movie in the previous post. There was once a Hindi multi-starrer called Jaani Dushman (1979) that had more stars than a bowl of breakfast cereal and the only way to deal with all of them was to keep bumping them off. Age of Ultron does not kill off its […]

April 23, 2015 – 1:45 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in Films | Comments (14)

Daredevil, Avengers: Age of Ultron – Run-Up

This piece has partly appeared in the Mumbai Mirror. It was meant to be a review of Daredevil, along with a run-up to Avengers: Age of Ultron and then a review of Age of Ultron. Daredevil Netflix and Marvel last week put out 13 episodes of the re-imagined Daredevil, all at one go, which I managed […]

April 23, 2015 – 1:43 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in Films, Mumbai Mirror Column | Comments (0)

Dying in Mumbai – Those Left Behind

After all the formalities are over and the relatives have left and the solitude sets in…that’s when the void hits. It is perhaps worst for the spouse, who bereft as it is, is also suddenly left alone, especially if old, given the nuclear structure of our families. Statistics say that a living spouse quite often […]

November 2, 2014 – 10:55 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in Dying in Mumbai, General, Mumbai Mirror Column | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Dying in Mumbai – Being There!

I have been accused of being extremely insular, thinking only of myself first and then of others, during times of stress and conflict, including when someone dies. While a feeling of sadness is universal, the next set of reactions is typically…Should I call? Or will an SMS be good enough? Do I need to drop […]

October 26, 2014 – 12:39 pm | By Bhavin Jankharia | Posted in Dying in Mumbai, General, Mumbai Mirror Column | Comments (13)