By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently, to refer a patient to her, while trying to call up Dr. N. Harshitha, an ENT Surgeon, who works with me in the Apollo BGS Hospitals and who shares the workplace with me in the OPD, I noticed that she had put up a very interesting profile…
At a recent book launch event in Bengaluru, former Mysuru-Kodagu MP Prathap Simha posed a poignant question: “If political leaders worry only about their own children, who will take care of the children of other people, who also work for the party?” The answer, it appears, is no one. Across the political spectrum, senior politicians…
Guess which project is back on the table — “wannabe” Disneyland! Yes, the Karnataka State Cabinet has cleared a proposal to develop Brindavan Gardens along the lines of Disneyland! This new “wannabe” Disneyland, though tentatively christened as Cauvery Brindavan Amusement Park, is not a new project. In 2018, H.D. Kumaraswamy, who was the CM had…
In the midst of the raging fire in the administration of Mysuru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) regarding arbitrary, gratuitous and illegal allotment of house sites under its ambiguously worded 50:50 scheme to compensate the land-losers, we heard an NGO, Mysore Grahakara Parishat (MGP), crooning about a 29-year-old Revenue Department scam that was buried in the…
[Continued from July 19] After seeing the assassination attempt on Donald Trump and then seeing him at the Republican Party National Convention at Milwaukee on TV, I get the feeling that the 2024 November Presidential Election is going to be Donald Trump’s show. The world TV viewers are sure to spend more time watching America’s…
The Karnataka Government’s recent handling of the Bill mandating reservations for Kannadigas in the private sector has been nothing short of chaotic. On Monday, the Bill was approved. On Tuesday, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah proudly announced it. By Wednesday, it was scrapped, only to be slated for further discussion on Thursday. This flip-flopping is not how…
It was a great escape, a providential escape from sure death for Donald Trump. An assassin’s bullet just grazed his right ear. There was blood. There was evil. It is believed Democracy does not draw blood to choose its leader, ruler. But unfortunately it does draw blood like it happened with Donald Trump last Saturday…
Among animals man is considered a sapient animal with five sensory organs and also a sixth sense. One may call it by multiple names — gut feeling, omen, intuition or power of prophesy. Some people have the power to foresee what is to come either by observing the past events connected to a subject matter…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk and Dr. Basavaraju has made this his motto in life. My last two articles were about two doctors and two events that destiny brought them face to face, which had two vastly varying outcomes. Yes, destiny is unescapable, which…
While calling for a CBI investigation and demanding Siddaramaiah’s resignation on moral grounds, will the BJP and JD(S) first take the moral high ground by suspending their own senior MLAs, who were MUDA members in 2021 under whose watch this scam occurred? Rohini Sindhuri, the former Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru District, had penned a letter…
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