By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Yesterday, as I was sitting in my clinic doing my routine work of seeing patients, Mukesh Leelaram my close friend from my school-days and his wife Madhu, dropped in most unexpectedly. As the lady struggled to retrieve something from her handbag, I thought that she had brought some lab…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD After I wrote my last article about the many fake doctors who were exposed and apprehended by the Police at Kolkata, I have received a spate of letters and phone calls from my readers asking me to write a follow up article guiding people about how they can ensure…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A recent news report says that a drive in Kolkata and its suburbs that was started last June has revealed the existence of dozens of fake doctors, armed with fake medical degrees and diplomas who were merrily practicing and making tons of money by treating unsuspecting patients. And, if…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A news video is doing the rounds of the social media circuit over the past few days which says that the Karnataka Government has introduced a new rule that all vehicles that are found with their insurance lapsed would be immediately seized and impounded permanently without any means of…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD These days, all around us we are hearing a great deal of hue and cry about what is happening to, or what is going to happen to WhatsApp, the social media platform, in the near future and what it will do to our own lives. People seem to be…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week Dr. J.A.K. Tareen, a Geologist, writer, painter and a former Vice-Chancellor of three Universities, all rolled into one, sent me a very amazing and interesting video clip which tells us of all the amazing possibilities that medicine is going to see in the very near future, considering…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The very short but undoubtedly the most important and busiest stretch of the Irwin Road that runs across the main business hub of our city is now thankfully open to traffic, although I cannot say for how long it will remain so. I say this because with some more…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD For the past nine months, we have all experienced and even endured life under the shadow of the COVID-19 threat. And, I would say that we have endured it admirably well and have even learnt to carry on with our lives, treating it as a new kind of learning…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week, in my article about the book ‘The Colonial Landmarks of Mysuru’ by Gauri Satya, my historian friend, I had made a reference to a most imposing but almost unknown monument built by Dewan Poornaiah to honour his patron Josiah Webbe of the Madras Council, at the spot…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Gouri Satya, perhaps the best-known historian of our city, from our own times, has come up with a very generous second helping of the history of our royal city with the release of his most recent book ‘Colonial Landmarks in Mysuru’, published by Notionpress. This handsome handbook lists almost all…
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