By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD My recent article about the play ‘Barff’ which I attended at Chowdaiah Memorial Hall in Bengaluru and my own experience while attending a medical conference, which was similar to that of the main character in the play, has drawn many responses from readers. While all of them have written…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Today morning when I picked up my newspaper I was pained to read that there had been three train accidents yesterday in our country in just nine hours. Although there had been no deaths this time, it was still a pretty bad score in the already dismal track record…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last fortnight I happened to be in Bengaluru with my family on a weekend visit. We were there with a two-fold purpose. While I was there to attend an International Conference on Diabetes, my family was there to get its weekend dose of relaxation and rest! My daughter, Sarah…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD With our annual Dasara round the corner, our city is waking up to its usual makeover. Most noticeably, all the traffic signal lights which had either gone to sleep or even off on a trip to some unknown and far off land have started coming back to life and…
By Dr.K. Javeed Nayeem Our Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has announced that the government will soon set up wayside amenities at every fifty kilometres on all our National Highways. Considering the fact that we have only been hearing such announcements from successive governments since time immemorial without their implementation, the question that naturally…
Mysuru: It was an evening of banter, bonhomie and intellectual stimulation. The gathering of bibliophiles and a couple of authors and writers added to the free atmosphere with lot of self-deprecating humour. The occasion was the book-release function organised by Book Clubs-2015, last evening at a private hotel in Vontikoppal here. Medical Practitioner and…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD While on a holiday with my family last week I was in Mumbai for three days. It was raining the proverbial ‘cats and dogs’ while we were there which is not very surprising when you consider the fact that Mumbai reportedly gets nearly ninety percent of its annual rainfall…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Taming of the Shrew’ is the title of a very well-known and popular Shakespearean play that I studied as part of our English non-detailed syllabus while I was in the ninth standard. It is a comedy about the experiences of three friends in managing their newly-acquired brides who seem…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD There is no denying the fact that our city is facing the very real problem of thousands of people suffering from a very rampant wave of fevers that frequently end in much morbidity and even mortality. Almost every household has someone who has recently gone through or is going…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In the year 2009, in this very same column I had written an article about Ramazan, the ninth and perhaps the most well known month of the Islamic calendar. Thanks to the requests of my numerous non-Muslim friends who want to know more about this very ‘visible’ month, I…
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