By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Just two days ago, I read that K. Satchidanandan, the noted Malayalam writer, poet, critic and translator, has announced that he would be gradually withdrawing from public life, out of his own volition. This very popular and much sought after orator and the present Chairperson of the Kerala Sahitya…
A desperately gasping Bengaluru!
October 27, 2024By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Day in and day out, for the past so many days, we have been reading reports and seeing videos about the misery that is being wreaked because of rain, on people who have chosen to live in our State capital. As we flick through our news channels, we see…
An Elephant Eden, at Last!
October 14, 2024By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem The announcement by our Forest Minister a few days ago, that the State Government is seriously thinking of establishing a ‘Soft Release Centre’ for elephants that stray out of our forests and aggravate the man-animal conflict, has made some very interesting front page news. And, it comes as a whiff…
Two of our most despicable and disgusting fixations!
September 29, 2024By Dr. K. Javed Nayeem, MD Very recently, Stephen Shore, the celebrated American photographer, who through his photography, depicted life in American cities, especially during the sixties and seventies, is said to have abruptly stopped his lecture at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and walked out of the hall. He did this…
Have Money, Will Spend!
September 22, 2024By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD We Indian tax-payers are a very unique breed of people. Quite unlike any others, living anywhere else in this world. We cry foul at the slightest, perceived injustice done to us by way of any denial or delay in the minuscule benefits that we feel the government owes us…
Some musings on the sad state of our city!
September 15, 2024By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A recent news report says that our local authorities have announced that all footpath encroachments along the Sayyaji Rao Road, the ‘Rajpath’ of our city, would be removed and every kind of roadside business there, would be banned, until our annual festival, the Dasara, is over. Yes, this term…
Kindness and compassion, of the misplaced kind?
September 8, 2024By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A fortnight ago, I was shocked and shaken on reading the news that a seventy-six-year-old retired lady school teacher, who was on her morning walk, was brutally attacked by a pack of a dozen stray dogs and mauled to death. The helpless lady was bitten all over her body…
A coincidence of the most unusual kind!
August 4, 2024By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently, to refer a patient to her, while trying to call up Dr. N. Harshitha, an ENT Surgeon, who works with me in the Apollo BGS Hospitals and who shares the workplace with me in the OPD, I noticed that she had put up a very interesting profile…
Dr. M.M. Basavaraju An Impressive & Admirable Innings
July 14, 2024By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk and Dr. Basavaraju has made this his motto in life. My last two articles were about two doctors and two events that destiny brought them face to face, which had two vastly varying outcomes. Yes, destiny is unescapable, which…
Two gifts of gratitude, to two foster mothers!
June 23, 2024By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last weekend, I wrote about the harrowing experience of Dr. H.V. Shivaram, who was attacked by a stray horse on the grounds of the Cheluvamba Hospital, which is a part of the large campus of the Mysore Medical College (MMC), while he was a House Surgeon there, way back…
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