India, July 1 -- The Lighter Side By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam
There is a peculiar affliction sweeping through humanity with a virulence that would have alarmed even the most seasoned epidemiologist and I speak not of any virus that a laboratory has yet catalogued. I speak of Chronic Busyness Syndrome, a condition in which the sufferer is perpetually occupied, permanently rushed and constitutionally unavailable, yet somehow manages to post seventeen photographs on social media by ten in the morning.
I first noticed this syndrome gaining critical mass sometime in the mid-nineties, when busyness graduated from a state of being into a badge of honour. Before that, people were occasionally busy. After that, everyone became busy as a matter of ph...