By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The weekend that has just gone by, was a very nostalgic and emotional trip back in time for me, because it marked the passing of a full fifty years of the moment I joined medical college, to embark on my ten-year-long journey to becoming a doctor, with post-graduate qualifications….
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The trees in and around our city have been in the news, sadly for some very wrong and unhappy reasons, over the past one month. The tragic and very avoidable loss of some of them, has thankfully galvanised a few concerned Mysureans into thinking of not only just protecting…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week I wrote about how thoughtlessly our civic authorities have behaved in chopping down forty beautiful Yellow Shower trees on the Hyder Ali Road, under the lame pretext of a need to widen it. These are the same authorities vested with the almost sacred responsibility of safeguarding our…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A full two weeks have passed, after forty majestic copper-pod trees (Peltophorum pterocarpum) along the two sides of the Hyder Ali Road in our city, were chopped down in a very swift and clandestine operation, that was cunningly planned and quickly executed, under the cover of darkness. It was…
Mysuru: Reacting to the unauthorised tree felling at St. Philomena’s College, noted physician and Star of Mysore columnist Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem expressed deep concern, linking it to the ongoing wave of tree destruction in Mysuru. “Alongside the disturbing news of avenue trees being axed across Mysuru, we now have this unfortunate incident within the…
Leo Tolstoy’s merchant story, told by my class teacher, illustrates the very sad true story of a villager we are all reading in news today… By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Over the past three days, we are all reading in the papers, a very sad and gut-wrenching story of how a miserably poor and…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It has been announced that a Heritage Museum is being proposed to be set up at our old Deputy Commissioner’s Office, under the Central Government’s Swadesh Darshan Scheme. This certainly seems like a very great and welcome idea if not for any other reason than that it is most…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In a landmark development in the field of medical education, our Supreme Court has recently ruled that it is time to discard the decades old ‘both hands intact’ requirement for a candidate to be eligible to study medicine and become a doctor in our country. Accepting the one-member report…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent decision of the Karnataka Government to strictly enforce the rule fixing the eligibility age (from the previous 5.5 years to 6 years), down to a day, for the admission of our children to schools, seems very archaic and counterproductive, as it will certainly become an impediment to…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The unseen hand of God or Destiny or Providence, or by whatever name we may choose to call it, has some very strange ways of playing with our lives. And, perhaps no one sees it at work, more often and more closely, than a practicing doctor like me. And,…
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