By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The Government has announced that schools across the country will be re-opened to conduct face-to-face teaching for students of class 9th to 12th from the 21st of this month. With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging at its peak I feel this is a very unwise move which may prove…
Of Two Bridges across Two Rivers
September 4, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Over the past two weeks I have written about interesting history of the two centuries-old Lushington Bridge across the River Cauvery at Shivanasamudra and how it is now being restored in a most sloppy and disgraceful way. Unless some of us who happen to be heritage-conscious citizens, step in…
Bridging the past and the present !
August 28, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Picking up the thread of my last week’s narration about the historic Lushington Bridge at Shivanasamudra and my dismay at its botched up restoration in the present era, I would like to take you back by two centuries and give you some refreshingly different and very interesting information from…
A Bridge not too Far !
August 21, 2020By Dr.K. Javeed Nayeem As most of us perhaps know ‘A bridge too Far’ was the title of an epic war movie from the seventies about the Second World War, based on a book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan. The story revolves around a strategic bridge at Arnhem in the Netherlands which the…
Our selfish Covid VIPs !
August 14, 2020No SOS for we the people By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It is a very well-known fact that in our country our leaders have two different sets of rules. One set is exclusively for themselves and their families and the other is for all the people who place them on their pedestals of power…
A Happy encounter during a Bad Time !
August 7, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD We all know very well that we are all going through some very trying times with the Covid-19 virus doing the rounds in the air and people who are going about their work being constantly worried about whether they will catch it. Yes, we are all living in this…
A Medley of Covid Comedies!
July 31, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD As we have all been seeing over the past five months, all writings and discussions about the global Covid-19 pandemic have been of a very grim and serious nature without any exceptions. And, it is understandably so too as we have so far not received any heartening or even…
Covid-19: Mistakes we are making!
July 24, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Yes, we the people are making some mistakes in the way some of us are reacting to the march of the Covid-19 pandemic through our towns and cities. Our own Mysuru is no different! That explains why we are seeing not only its very rapid and extensive spread across…
Covid-19: A Novel and MAHAN Initiative !
July 17, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Yes you may say “Oh no, this is just another article about Covid-19!” But I would like to say, No, this is not just another article about what you should do to keep yourself safe from picking up the Covid-19 infection. It is also not about what is going wrong…
Dr. N. Kannan: A Pioneer and a Perfect Gentleman!
July 10, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In the recent demise of Dr. N. Kannan on 31st May 2020, we Mysureans have lost an iconic figure and one of the most well-known doctors from our midst. If I may jog people’s memory a little, he was the first person to set up a Pathology Lab in…
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