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…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It is reported that our Government is considering the idea of bringing in measures that will ensure that the identity and phone number of the first person who creates and sends a message on WhatsApp remains encrypted in the message. This will be on the lines of the EXIF…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A report in my morning newspaper today says that the Government is finding it increasingly difficult to recruit doctors who are willing to serve in rural areas. The current scenario in our country where unemployment is rampant is that whenever the Government announces the openings even for some very…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A recent report says that the tap water supplied to residents in fifteen out of twenty one of our major cities and State capitals where the survey was conducted was found to be unsafe. We have to be thankful that it was found safe in six of them! Delhi…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD This morning I attended the Month’s Mind Mass held to pray for the soul of Mrs. Dorothy Fernandez, who passed away at the age of eighty six on the 15th of last month. She was my music teacher when I was studying at the Good Shepherd Convent Primary School…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem I ask this question simply out of frustration that overcomes me when I see how neglected our city is across its entire length and breadth these days. Our roads are in their most miserable state ever. Over the years that have gone by, before every Dasara, we used to see…
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