Ambimama - India

The rivalry of Australia and England over the Ashes is the best in Cricket. The rivalry is better than Indo-Pak Test matches, Sharjah 50 overs One Day match or the Twenty20.

The first Test ended in a draw, with England almost defeated. But England’s tail-enders James Anderson and Monty Panesar carried the baton passed forth by Paul Collingwood.
Ricky Ponting is just 4 centuries short of Tendulkar and is in great form in the current Ashes series. The first test may have ended in a draw thanks to the great batting by England’s Collingwood. But the match belonged to Aussies. Flintoff is there but he has to prove every bit. There are many new faces in Australia and the rest of the four tests will show their true strengths.
Alex Brown is deputy editor of Cricinfo says:
That the Test was played at a time when West Indies players are striking over pay, a nomadic Pakistan team is scouting for a neutral base and Twenty20 cricket continues to erode the game’s traditions only underscores its importance on a macro level.

The following is the text from:

http://indianmedicalstudent.wordpress.com/why-stipend-hike/

Wonder why the state government of Tamil Nadu, which spends over a thousand crore for giving free colour television sets, is not inclined to spend a fraction of it for quality health care.
Doctors in Tamil Nadu are giving a shock treatment to the state government. Over 3000 of them is boycotting work demanding a hike in stipend on par with other states.
The medicos have rejected a token rise. It will cost the state an additional Rs 15 crore. The government is now threatening to mark them bad in their conduct certificate.
For vote bank politics, the Tamil Nadu government spends over thousand crore rupees towards free colour television scheme. But when it comes to paying these doctors, the government becomes a tough pay master - a clear lack of priority.

Our friends who had taken engineering are earning forty to fifty thousand rupees now, said Dr Mayuresh, post-graduate doctor.

Doctors or paupers? That’s the question interns and post-graduate doctors are asking. They say Tamil Nadu pays the lowest stipend in the country.

Interns are paid just Rs 4500 a month and post-graduate doctors Rs 8500, whereas in AIIMS in Delhi, Rs 10700 for interns and Rs 49000 for PG doctors.
“With Rs 6000, it’s so difficult in Chennai’s cost of living,” said Dr Brinda, post-graduate doctor.
Interns and PG doctors account for around 30 per cent of the work force in government hospitals. The worst hit is the common man.
“My daughter had a brain tumour. The surgery was to be done last week but it was done only today due to the strike,” said a local.

My suggestions:
So the Government is blind and the common man is also responsible. He remembers the Doctor only when he is pain, and wants the pain to be removed free. He will pay for anything and bring on the diseases. He will go to the temples, use his cleverness there to have Darshan, but forgets the pains caused to Him or Others. The fast life must have regulations and the first need is recognize the Doctor and His knowledge and service to us.

The following is from the medical community of Tamil Nadu:
This is on behalf of all Tamilnadu doctors’ anguish and disappointment. You media people, I refer here to the dailies, TV, radio, internet and whatever.. You people create and even invent big news when some doctor somewhere does some mistake. But when we fight for justice, it’ just like a bit message for you eh? Very disappointing.. for all those sleepless nights we work for the public and the government… for all those happy hours you guys enjoy with the family

And the cry goes on by the Doctors on the site:
What kind of work: managing deliveries and saving so many mother’s and babies’ lives and making so many families’ biggest dreams come true, saving so many mothers and fathers of your own family, leaving all our life behind. We would not have time to sleep or eat at leisure. No time to spend reasonable time with our family like in any other profession.
IT’S OUR DUTY. We recognise our duty, but you general public the media the government and everyone fail to realise our work. That’s what kills us. You want all the work from us we sweat and fret and run like anything to save your precious lives. You just sit back and comment. The Medical fraternity is fed up of everything. When you stand first to criticise a doctor, why don’t you stand first to recognise our problems?

You are able to pictorially represent a big theft, You are able bring about and analyse the budget, but when such a big fight is going on behalf of someone who cares and saves your lives, you guys will just put up a small box message?! Really disappointing and disgusting. Who the hell are we working for? For you the general public. Most of you don’t even know why we’re fighting? A Pity on doctors. Really disappointing. Have you ever thought about how a doctor earns his or her position in life? Have you ever imagined the amount of hard work we have to put in to save your lives? How much we lose in life? It’s not money we ask for, it’s recognition. All you guys know is a posh doctor asking you a lot of fees which you all are in the position to pay on the first thing, have you ever thought of so many government doctors, their lives. You know to cover up cine stars and terrorists. Poor doctors, God alone can help us.

We know very well by now that there are only few humans left behind to recognise our problems… Or rather to even think we have a problem.. Why bother? YOu enjoy your lives.. We’ll toil all day long to make your lives better…When you can write 2 pages of content about cine stars bikini, you cant even write one half a page of coverage about our problems. Do you know what our problems are? do you know why we are on a strike?. Do you know how much meagre apy we are getting?. Do you know how much a doctor who is studying superspeciality in his thirty married with childrens getting paid?. Do you know how much stipend the other state CRRI and pg S are getting?. When you can analyse a burglary you can analyse this too and represent our plight too..Still we have some respect for the media and we believe that you people can support our cause and help us. I am sending this mail to you on behalf of the striking medicos seeking support from the media to help us to get a pay hike we demand. Kindly do cover our stories more and help us out.

So the News papers and TV Media are not caring for the most honoured profession! Where are we going? Have our lives becomes so fast and careless? Or are we just animals or machines? We have to find the answer and we will. And we have to pay for this at the end.

From July 1st 2009, the Doctors of Tamil Nadu are on strike. The reason is simple and the Government could have solved it. The state is paying the lowest salary in the entire Nation a mere Rs.8,500/- per month for the Post Graduate student. Other states pay more than Rs.35,000/-. The students ask Rs.25,000/- to be paid. The State Government could have raised the salary and asked the students of all categories to work. But instead of solving the problem, they have purposely put the issue to a grinding halt.
The public does not see the result of this, like many of other issues than health. More details will come.
I read the messages of the Doctors on the following site:
http://indianmedicalstudent.wordpress.com/what-we-need-from-you/

I have been out of Chennai for two days. The drive was good and the prayers wonderful at my native place near Thanjavur. I must say that my village has not turned at all, outside. The same green fields of paddy and sugarcane in my village made me feel nice. But my temples have changed to cement structures with marbles all around. My village from where all people have shifted to mostly cities and foreign countries have received many funds from these people. But the money has not been used properly to upkeep temples that will attract youngsters. I really cannot judge as I go to the temple once a year and rush back to my home and do not any one in the village.
If I plan to change my village, I should stay there and understand the climate and way of the people. There was Cauvery once flowing here, but now only sands and lot of trucks taking the sands for building new homes. My father, who was once a poor Brahmin here, became a graduate and a teacher in the school. He then shifted to Mumbai and all our life changed. But we go to the village once a year to do pooja and remember the name of the village!