By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In the recent demise of Dr. N. Kannan on 31st May 2020, we Mysureans have lost an iconic figure and one of the most well-known doctors from our midst. If I may jog people’s memory a little, he was the first person to set up a Pathology Lab in…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I’m sure that I’ll not be wrong if I say that nothing has shaken the present generations of mankind as much as the current Covid-19 crisis has done. There has simply been no natural calamity or man-made catastrophe that can match its fear-mongering capacity and this only seems to…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Thanks to modern technology, for the first time in the history of mankind after the Deadly Plague of 1918, we are staring into the eyes of a pestilence which can perhaps prove to be deadlier, if we do not tackle it on a war-footing. I say this because today…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD My morning newspaper today says that our State Budget does not have much funds earmarked to boost tourism except for a very modest allocation to promote it in the North and the Coastal belt. Yes, the Northern reaches of our State do have some of the finest places of…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD As a practising doctor over nearly forty long years, I have had an occasion to interact closely with the many medical representatives who visit my clinic almost every day as part of their work. This interaction has given me an opportunity to observe them from very close quarters and…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD William Shakespeare, the immortal playwright, narrates a very delightful tale of joy and mirth in his comedy ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ which has remained one of his most popular works across the world even to this day, a full four centuries after his death. It portrays the events connected…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Like a bolt from the blue, the spectre of the Coronavirus infection which was almost unknown to most people has come into the limelight over the past two weeks. Since the most recent outbreak of this disease was from Wuhan in China, it has come to be known as the…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD There is a video clip from an under-informed and over-enthusiastic news channel that is doing the rounds these days in YouTube and social media platforms that is screaming itself hoarse that India has been flooded with a new kind of fake plastic tablets that can ruin the health of…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The year was 1965 and I was a student of the seventh standard at St. Mary’s English Middle School. The academic year started with everyone I met cautioning me that I was now laden with the responsibility of facing a public examination. My parents, relatives, teachers and even Khader,…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In yesterday’s SOM my friend and fellow writer N.K.A. Ballal with his long experience in the tourism industry has very graphically described how unsuspecting tourists are systematically fleeced all over the country by a close knit coterie of unethical hotels, business establishments and guides who are guided only by…
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