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MBBS 1986-1991

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MBBS, 1986- 1991 Green man is as elusive as always, however yet reachable. Isn’t it the part of the strategy to confuse, and remain confused for certain periods of our existence? Was, watching Vasool Raja MBBS (Munna Bai, Tamil version) the other day. Got reminded that this week, 30 years ago, we, the 1986 batch of Stanley Medical College(SMC), were qualified and graduated to become interns, aka House officers. It was perhaps, start of a fresh decade, life, experience, a cumulative frontier for us all. 1991 it was; gulf war had just begun; Internet had seemingly began too with worldwide web harbingering a digital tsunami; advanced intel CPU and a cheaper AMD microprocessor arrived together; digital note books and Apples’ PowerBook arrived; colour scanners too; Microsoft OS officially becomes Windows; Linux was born; the first GSM phone call ever was made and real time global connectivity officially began.  Apartheid was still on; IRA was actively bombing London; Rodney king had died in