
“Be better tomorrow than the best you were yesterday; be yourself today”
My Blog, ‘Thoughts of a Lifetime’ is precisely that, a collection of my random musings on a variety of topics written during the span of decades. There are articles that I was required or requested to write on a variety of subjects, projects, or situations that I have been involved in, as well as expressions reflecting my personal experiences, anecdotes, and reminiscences.
Not claiming authority on any of my narrations, my statements are based on information I received from education, a variety of sources and publications, along with impressions that I have accumulated through the sheer process of living. And quite naturally they express my personal views, notions, opinions and even bias. I remain obligated to the many resources that have enriched my knowledge and understanding of a variety of subjects and have provided much substance to my writing.
I have also included the information about my personal biographical attempt, published as ‘My Mother Called Me UNNI – A Doctor’s Tale of Migration’. Please visit : https://www.amazon.com/My-Mother-Called-Unni- Migration/dp/1478761717

MBBS, FAAP,
FAAAA&I, FACAA&I, FRS
(Fellow of the Royal Society of
Medicine, London)

Index
- About Venugopal Menon, the author
- Dr. Venugopal K. Menon (C.V.)
- “My Mother Called Me UNNI – A Doctor’s Tale of Migration”
- Why Write Memoirs?
- The Home I Left Behind
- How did it go?…My Life!
- Golden Memoirs
- Why I love Houston!
- Random Perspectives on Life and Living
- My Visible Gods
- A Day in My Life
- Gratitude
- Who Should I Become?
- To My Beloved Mother
- Earning Nobility
- Making ‘Attitude’, the ‘Mantra’
- Your Amma, by Achan
- To My Dear Children
- My Scattered Musings
- Life is a ‘Many – Splintered’ Thing
- Our African Safari
- Art Forms of Kerala
- About Being
- Gokulachettan
- About my Sister-in-Law, Indira Gokulanathan
- Again and Again…
- Dr. Vijayamadhavan
- ‘Getting Old’ is Past Tense
- About Me – Assessment as per my Birth Star Thiruvonam.
- To the Indo – Americans in Houston
- Remembering Ammini
- N. G. Nair Place – In Honor of My Distinguished Friend
- Varghese Paul, my Friend
- Hurricanes of Life
- Contemplating Retirement
- Retired, yet, ‘not Really Tired’
- The Twenty-five Year Difference!
- Wrong Things Happen when the Good People let them Happen
- A Patient that I Lost
- Can we be helped, please?
- AKMG Souvenir Editorial -2013
- McGovern Allergy Clinic – President’s Message
- Doctors, It’s Time for Us to Get Off the Side-lines
- Need a Fresh Look.
- New America
- Fleeing from Roaring Rita
- Gandhi Camp, California, July 2017
- A Nair is a Nair
- Looming Shadows
- Covid 19 – Contemplations from India
- Corona Conundrums – Reporting from Kerala.
- Migrant Words: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,ama Makdisi
- God Save Texas: Lawrence Wright interviewed by Chandrahas Choudhury
- The Healing: Manisha Koirala in conversation with Sanjoy K. Roy
- The Anarchy: William Dalrymple introduced by Sanjoy K. Roy
- What it means to be a Kerala Hindu in the USA!
- Passage to Marginality: The Vanishing Hindu Presence in Kerala
- What if you are a Hindu and living in the West
- Guidance about Hinduism, for a Doctoral Thesis
- Sri Meenakshi Temple, Pearland – The 40-year History.
- A momentous milestone in our Temple
- Sri. Raja Rathna Bhattar – His Memories Always guiding us.
- Sri Ayyappa Mandala Pooja
- Temple Youth Center – Beyond the Building
- Be Blessed by Sri Guruvayurappan.
- Sree Narayana Guru Samadhi Day, 2002 (1855-1928)
- How Havan benefits the Environment
- Inviting you to the Kerala Hindu Convention
- The Beginning – Or
- My Thoughts about Creation
- Comprehending the Cosmos
- The Concept of God
- Assimilating a Notion
- Reasoning in Religion
- Design of Religions
- Monopolizing Divinity
- Faith versus Science
- Sensible Religion!
- The Concept of ‘MAYA’ – the Cosmic Illusion
- ‘VASANAS’ and their meaning in life
- Dr. Waldo W. Martinez
- Satsang – how we benefit!
- Dr. K. K. Sekharan, memories
- About an Arangettam
- On Chitra Divakaruni’s ‘The Forest of Enchantments’
- How sadly has my hometown changed!
- The Divine days of the month of Ramayanam
- Losing a great friend, a hero on every count
- ‘From the Land of Spice to the Land of Oil- my review of Dr. Jay Raman’s book
- Festivals of India
- Covid is a Tiny Tool in the Broader Plans
- Musings of an Octogenarian
- The Sun is Almost Setting!
- My Closing Statements