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…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent proclamation of the State Government that the possession of all kinds of wildlife artifacts by citizens would be dealt with by taking very stern legal action, under the Wildlife Act, has become the cause for much concern among people who have been having wildlife artifacts, both small…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A little more than a week ago, I read in very small print, an announcement in Star of Mysore that said an exhibition of watercolour paintings was being held at Coffee City, the relatively new gallery café in the Hebbal suburb of our city. Being a fledgling or more…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD My last article about loneliness and what it is doing to our present-day society has unsurprisingly drawn a spate of responses from my readers, both young and old, over the last two weeks. I use the word ‘unsurprisingly’ because we all know how widespread is ‘the strange lonely feeling’…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently, my attention was drawn by one of my patients, very anxiously, to a video clip that was doing the rounds on YouTube. This kind of interaction between my patients and me, happens quite often these days, because the YouTube and other social media channels are today flooded…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Consequent upon the recent publication of a disturbing report in some newspapers, naturally followed by their rapid circulation, in the now hair-trigger social media, a wave of needless panic seems to be spreading in our society. A good many of you too may have read these reports, which if…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent passing away of a close friend, D.R. Shivram, a coffee planter and an ace car rallyist of a bygone era, brought back to my mind fond memories of some very good times that we as a group of friends had, while doing the things that we then…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Our expectantly awaited annual Nada Habba has come and gone for this year. Our State Government had announced, well in advance, that in view of the very anaemic monsoon that we are all going through right now, this year’s Dasara would be a much-muted and simpler version of what…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It is now a very well-established fact that the nearly two-decade-old man-animal conflict in areas bordering our forests is not showing any signs of being resolved, with any degree of success. Day in and day out, we keep reading reports about these confrontations and just two days ago there…
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