Rishikesh

Many months after Leptospirosis (rat fever) and Chikun Gunya began spreading, many reporters continued to write about "a strange disease gripping their town". We proved again that reporters, as a tribe, are too proud to accept lack of learning and lazy to upgrade. Members of every professional association get together every year, share experiences, speak, listen and learn. Doctors call it Continuing Medical Education. Engineers by some other name and even teachers and lawyers do something similar. Such kind of teamwork and relearning is sadly absent among the apparently all knowing community of Journalists. I saw that the journalists in the US do this regularly. I attended one such discussion group on ground water preservation in May. They tend to forget things like competition and individual career advancement while doing such things. The community spirit prevails there. I feel strongly about this. We need to meet, discuss, shed prejudices and learn. Family picnics can also