User:Prashanthns

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About me

I am a human being by birth and a medical doctor by training. All other affiliations are purely artificial and are mere indulgences! I like them though. I am presently at Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium for a year. I live in BR Hills, South India and work in an NGO on primary health care in various districts of Karnataka and Arunachal Pradesh. I made history on Wikipedia at 09:58(UTC) on 7th February 2005. Recently, I discovered that my 10000th edit was co-incidentally on a bird article! I prevented the blue footed bobby from eating you when you go near it and biting your head off and killing you in your sleep!!

Prashanth's random musings about Wikipedia

Wikipedia for me is an expression of a new kind of equity - of knowledge. An opportunity where capitalist gains may be used for knowledge equity. I will now make extremely random statements that cannot fit in any wikipedia article and hence, this may be a way of catharsis for me!

  1. Economics is a social science with confused affiliations between science and society.
  2. The root of hegemony is knowledge inequity.
  3. In the future, a welfare state will grant RIGHT TO BANDWIDTH that guarantees a reasonable bandwidth to every citizen of the state
  4. Solidarity, once upon a time, a defining character of society is now a goal...hmmm
  5. We are limited by our language. The better your language, more the limitations.

Bias and my Wikipedia Law of Biases

All editors have biases. Most of these are path dependent. If bias is also your employment or source of income/living, it becomes WP:COI.

  1. If it's your bias, it can make a great article. Begin it!
  2. If your bias is giving you your salary, it may may be a conflict of interest. Proceed with caution!
  3. If your bias drives you, your passion may be blinding you. Take it easy!

My contributions


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Publications

  • Prashanth, NS & Bhandari, GP. (Accepted) Back pain as a communicable disease needs more exploration. International Journal of Epidemiology
  • Prashanth, NS. 2006 Public-private Partnerships Proceedings of Management Consultation on Health Care in India Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
  • Prashanth, NS & Sudarshan, H. 2006 Community Health Insurance - Karuna Trust Experience from Karnataka Health Action
  • Srinivasan, U. and Prashanth N.S. (2005): Additions to the Avifauna of the Biligirirangans. Indian Birds. 1(5): 104
  • Srinivasan, U. and Prashanth N. S. (2006): Preferential routes of bird dispersal to the Western Ghats in India: An explanation for the avifaunal peculiarities of the Biligirirangan Hills Indian Birds 2 (4): 114–119.
  • Veena, N., Prashanth N. S. and Vasuki, B. K. (2006): Our Forests, Our Lives. VGKK (A Book on 25 years of tribal development in BR Hills)


Awards

The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For your many vandalism reversions. You keep beating me all the time. ARGGHHH!!!!! Thingg⊕⊗ 22:35, 14 April 2008 (UTC)


The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
For your work with vandalism tonight (it's rough out there!). Sorry about your talk page getting vandalized a few times. Keep up the good work. --SharkfaceT/C 23:18, 14 April 2008 (UTC)


The RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar
Nobody, and I mean nobody beats me to vandalism on my talk page. And you did. *cries* ;) Keep up the awesome job. You just keep beating me. *cries again* Thingg⊕⊗ 23:38, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
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