Om Namah Shivaya’ be the invocation because according to a book by N.K. Singh titled ‘Saivism in Kashmir’ the first religion of Kashmir was Saivism — worship of Shiva. I purchased the book at the Srinagar (capital of Kashmir) Airport on my return journey from Kashmir after a week’s sojourn, on 3rd December, last Saturday….
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In my last two articles I wrote about J.B.S. Haldane, the more than life-sized and more than queer man of science, who left Britain, the country of his birth, as a disillusioned man, to settle down in India, where he lived till his death on 1st December, 1964. I…
Last month an interesting book about forgotten India — Hindustan, Bharat — was released in Bengaluru titled “Bravehearts of Bharat – Vignettes from Indian History” by the young historian Vikram Sampath. A prolific writer on subjects history, he has written a biography on Veer Savarkar in two tomes. He has also written a very good…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last weekend, I wrote about how I received a wrong book in response to my order from an online bookseller and how, instead of being a complete disappointment, it turned out to be an event with an unexpectedly interesting ending. As I have already said, the wrong book that…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD There can be no denying that it is very good for all of us when the things we do, go right and it can naturally be very frustrating when they don’t. But sometimes, things can go wrong, in a right kind of way too, as it happened to me…
Life seems a riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma! Death, be not proud… Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men… — From the poem ‘Death be not proud’ by John Donne The First Court of Justice for a common citizen is the first Government Officer to whom the citizen submits his…
Not surprisingly, in the last and the 12th chapter of the book, rather appropriately titled A cry in the wilderness, Mr. Kulkarni bemoans his plight with the ‘holy cow IB’ for 35 years and reproduces some letters he has written to the Prime Minister and the Home Minister in this regard. And also another letter…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Yesterday, I was both delighted and distressed too, upon reading a piece of news on the front page of one of the newspapers that I read every day. That report was about a high-ranking lady IAS Officer of the Kerala cadre, who chose to bring her toddler son with…
In 2012, the 130-year-old Lansdowne building collapsed. In 2016, a part of the 136-year-old Devaraja Market collapsed. In 2022, a portion of the 95-year-old Vani Vilas Market collapsed. Two weeks ago, a part of the 106-year-old Maharani’s College collapsed. Is Lalitha Mahal Palace next? I ask because, on a recent visit to Lalitha Mahal Palace,…
Narakasura comes alive amidst vestiges of Portuguese rule [Continued from yesterday] For those born before 1947, when India won independence from the British and after that year, visiting Goa and Pondicherry (now changed to Puducherry in 2006 !) is bound to make them reminisce the post-independence history of these two States. The reason is that…
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