By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The trees in and around our city have been in the news, sadly for some very wrong and unhappy reasons, over the past one month. The tragic and very avoidable loss of some of them, has thankfully galvanised a few concerned Mysureans into thinking of not only just protecting…
Mindless Mismanagement, Slightly Mitigated!
May 11, 2025By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week I wrote about how thoughtlessly our civic authorities have behaved in chopping down forty beautiful Yellow Shower trees on the Hyder Ali Road, under the lame pretext of a need to widen it. These are the same authorities vested with the almost sacred responsibility of safeguarding our…
Tall Trees, in Tall Trouble
May 4, 2025By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A full two weeks have passed, after forty majestic copper-pod trees (Peltophorum pterocarpum) along the two sides of the Hyder Ali Road in our city, were chopped down in a very swift and clandestine operation, that was cunningly planned and quickly executed, under the cover of darkness. It was…
God Sees the Truth, But Waits!
April 6, 2025Leo Tolstoy’s merchant story, told by my class teacher, illustrates the very sad true story of a villager we are all reading in news today… By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Over the past three days, we are all reading in the papers, a very sad and gut-wrenching story of how a miserably poor and…
Heritage Museum at old DC Office is a great idea… but !
March 23, 2025By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It has been announced that a Heritage Museum is being proposed to be set up at our old Deputy Commissioner’s Office, under the Central Government’s Swadesh Darshan Scheme. This certainly seems like a very great and welcome idea if not for any other reason than that it is most…
Breaking an Unholy Mould, finally!
March 9, 2025By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In a landmark development in the field of medical education, our Supreme Court has recently ruled that it is time to discard the decades old ‘both hands intact’ requirement for a candidate to be eligible to study medicine and become a doctor in our country. Accepting the one-member report…
Why are we clipping our children’s wings?
March 2, 2025By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent decision of the Karnataka Government to strictly enforce the rule fixing the eligibility age (from the previous 5.5 years to 6 years), down to a day, for the admission of our children to schools, seems very archaic and counterproductive, as it will certainly become an impediment to…
The Strange ways of Destiny !
February 16, 2025By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The unseen hand of God or Destiny or Providence, or by whatever name we may choose to call it, has some very strange ways of playing with our lives. And, perhaps no one sees it at work, more often and more closely, than a practicing doctor like me. And,…
A Helplessly Crumbling Mysuru!
February 9, 2025By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent collapse of a second portion of the famed, more than a century old, Maharani’s College building in our city has claimed the life of a young daily wage earner, with his two little kids now being left fatherless and his household, left bereft of its only means…
Is this not outright exploitation?
February 2, 2025By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently, I was more than a little distressed to read in my newspaper that with the surge in demand by eager passengers, wanting to travel to participate in the ongoing Kumbh Mela, the air fares from Hyderabad to Prayagraj have gone up to Rs 1.2 lakh per ticket….
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