By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The heavy toll that competitive exams, requiring the Kota kind of preparation, have been taking from our society, in the form of the precious lives of our children, across our country, is continuing unchecked. This is the result of our rather insane quest to make the future of our…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayaeem, MD Just a few days ago, we all read in our newspapers a very disturbing report about a young boy, who was preparing to crack the NEET examination, to enter medical college, and who walked away from the grind, unable to bear the pressure anymore. Yes, the nineteen-year-old boy, whose…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD These days we find that almost all our cities have changed a lot from what they were until just a generation ago, with more and more people taking to congregating and eating late into the nights. But the restrictions and restraints that used to operate on the activities of…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD After a full six weeks of desperate waiting in the sheer agony of being steeped in one of the harshest summers in recent times, our city was blessed with its first real summer rain last Friday evening. I say this because although some parts of the city experienced sporadic,…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Our general elections, undoubtedly the greatest political event, that we see every five years in our country, or maybe even across the world and which are supposed to keep our robust democracy alive and kicking, are underway. And, conducting them well enough, so that they meet the expectations of every…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Going by some very interesting feedback that I have been getting over the past one week, my last article, where I discussed what our Dasara Exhibition meant to me in the days of my childhood, seems to have touched the heartstrings of many readers, putting them too in similar…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent statement from Ayub Khan, the new Chairman of Karnataka Exhibition Authority (KEA) that henceforth, all exhibitions, of all kinds in the city, would be held only in the Dasara Exhibition Grounds, should be welcomed by all right-thinking Mysureans. I say this because, a good many exhibitions of…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD My last article was about the striking similarity in the Torquay Fountain in England and its identical twin that we have here in our city. I had already said that our ‘migrant’ fountain, that now stands as a mute witness to the history of our city, at the Northern…
By Dr. Javeed Nayeem, MD My last article A Tale of Two Cities and Two Clocks, about the Big Ben in London and the Silver Jubilee Clock Tower here in Mysuru, has generated a good amount of some very interesting discussion between my readers and me. Needless to say, most senior Mysureans are pretty fascinated…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem The first part of the title of this article, as is most certainly known to almost all my readers, is actually the title of a very famous historical novel penned by Charles Dickens, published in the year 1859, set in London and Paris, before and during the French Revolution which came to…
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