By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Even as we are going through a very grim and devastating flood situation, we are reading many disturbing reports of tourists being stranded in flooded resorts and home stays. A notable example is of the hundreds of tourists, including a handful of foreigners, who had to be evacuated at…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I feel that in the sad and untimely death of V.G. Siddhartha, we have lost a very dignified and respectable man who was much loved and admired although sometimes also envied in plantation and industry circles. The circumstances leading to his premature death and the obvious and unseen forces…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It was reported in the press very recently that our Government that existed technically until two days ago was thinking of building a median with Jersey Barriers all along the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway that is right now under renovation. I used the term ‘technically’ because I felt that it was…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Penalties for almost all traffic offences and vehicle document lapses have been revised upwards by our Government with the good intention of hammering some sense, albeit through sheer fear, into our traffic offenders who seem to only be increasing day after day. We all know that driving on our…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Yesterday morning when I saw my newspaper headline I almost choked on my own laughter. Although we are told that it is a good thing to start your day laughing since we can never say how the rest of the day may turn out, it was no laughing matter…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week I told you about the time long ago, when I drove buses and today I will be telling you about how as a young boy I used to drive trucks and also about how I came to acquire a driving licence for heavy transport vehicles. Incidentally, after…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week my teacher Dr. Dewapriya Galagali wrote a letter to SOM about an incident when out of sheer necessity I had to drive a bus. It brought back to me fond memories of an almost forgotten era, more than forty years ago when I was a medical student…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I’ll first tell you about the joy of travelling and then come to the sad or even bad part. The only time I get to use the services of a driver is when I need to take a cab. This I usually do only when I need to be…
By Dr.K. Javeed Nayeem What can perhaps be called the greatest show on earth is thankfully over. Yes, the Indian elections qualify to be called that because today we are undoubtedly the world’s biggest Democracy. We may have the United States, a country which is much bigger than ours but it does not have the…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The humble house sparrow may only be a very tiny speck in our environment but it has remained a very integral part of man’s existence over the years. And, like the faithful dog it may perhaps have moved with man in his evolution from being a forest denizen to…
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