I boarded a connecting flight from Kolkata to Bengaluru. My co-passenger, a chatty elderly gentleman, said he had been visiting Bengaluru for 19 years, not because he loved the city but because of a land dispute case! As we parted ways at the airport, I wished him luck with his case and hoped his next…
Is religion darkness?
December 14, 2022It was early morning of 3rd December, 2022 when I reached home from Bengaluru Airport on my return from Kashmir. Having slept in the Flybus, sleep has bid me goodbye and a hot cup of coffee fortified my body enough to remain awake for some more time. I switched on the TV and what do…
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…
A tourist’s view of Kashmir: Heaven on earth…! —2
December 9, 2022[Continued from Dec. 6] The ancient history of Kashmir, as narrated by me earlier in this column, is in sharp contrast to the present history of Kashmir. Except probably for the geography of the Kashmir Valley, every aspect related to human life and activity seemed totally changed from what we have read from the books…
A tourist’s view of Kashmir: Heaven on earth…! —1
December 6, 2022Om Namah Shivaya’ be the invocation because according to a book by N.K. Singh titled ‘Saivism in Kashmir’ the first religion of Kashmir was Saivism — worship of Shiva. I purchased the book at the Srinagar (capital of Kashmir) Airport on my return journey from Kashmir after a week’s sojourn, on 3rd December, last Saturday….
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…
Whatever happened to bravehearts of Kashmir? Ask Vikram Sampath!
November 24, 2022Last month an interesting book about forgotten India — Hindustan, Bharat — was released in Bengaluru titled “Bravehearts of Bharat – Vignettes from Indian History” by the young historian Vikram Sampath. A prolific writer on subjects history, he has written a biography on Veer Savarkar in two tomes. He has also written a very good…
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…
R.N. Kulkarni’s evening walk to eternity…
November 12, 2022Life seems a riddle wrapped in mystery inside an enigma! Death, be not proud… Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men… — From the poem ‘Death be not proud’ by John Donne The First Court of Justice for a common citizen is the first Government Officer to whom the citizen submits his…
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