By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I’ll start my article today with a parable that is very relevant to the present times. It appears, there were a cow and her calf, reared by a farmer, dwelling in his farm, that stood next to a dense forest. The mother and calf duo would graze every day,…
Two beautiful buildings, but whither heritage?
December 11, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently I saw a news report in Star of Mysore that the Command Area Development Authority (CADA) building in our city was getting a complete makeover. As most of us Mysureans know, this very ornamental and majestic building which stands on Sayyaji Rao Road, in close proximity to…
End of the tale of two Stalwarts!
November 27, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In my last two articles I wrote about J.B.S. Haldane, the more than life-sized and more than queer man of science, who left Britain, the country of his birth, as a disillusioned man, to settle down in India, where he lived till his death on 1st December, 1964. I…
J.B.S. Haldane: Distinguished yet Disillusioned!
November 20, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last weekend, I wrote about how I received a wrong book in response to my order from an online bookseller and how, instead of being a complete disappointment, it turned out to be an event with an unexpectedly interesting ending. As I have already said, the wrong book that…
Wrong delivery… to the Right address!
November 13, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD There can be no denying that it is very good for all of us when the things we do, go right and it can naturally be very frustrating when they don’t. But sometimes, things can go wrong, in a right kind of way too, as it happened to me…
A mother first and everything else, only later!
November 6, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Yesterday, I was both delighted and distressed too, upon reading a piece of news on the front page of one of the newspapers that I read every day. That report was about a high-ranking lady IAS Officer of the Kerala cadre, who chose to bring her toddler son with…
A rare feast for the eyes and soul!
October 2, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem As you are all in the midst of celebrating a very colourful Dasara festival back in Namma Mysuru, my family and I are celebrating a different kind of equally colourful festival faraway, in Chikmagalur. This is the beautiful place I belong to and this is the place where the beautiful…
My last meeting with Prof. B. Sheik Ali
September 4, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I have had a fairly long standing and frequent interaction with Prof. B. Sheik Ali, the nonagenarian doyen of history who bid adieu to this world on last Thursday. Although there was an unusually wide gulf of difference in our ages, to enable us to call ourselves two friends,…
Dr. M. S. Vishveshwara: A Noble Soul, Gone Forever!
August 21, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The week that has gone by has been a very painful one for the entire medical fraternity of our city and its surroundings. It has taken away from our midst Dr. M.S. Vishveshwara, a very noble soul who as a practicing Oncologist, had tirelessly served suffering humanity for well…
The Changing Face of Namma Mysuru!
July 31, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Over the past few years, we have all been noticing that the old and sedate, but incredibly charming face of Namma Mysuru has been steadily changing. Being very gradual, this change so far has not been unlike the transformation in the face of a beautiful lady when she gracefully…
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