By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD We have two major water bodies, the Kukkarahalli Lake and the Karanji Tank in what can now justifiably be called the heart of our city. These lakes, once on the outskirts of the city, were created by our erstwhile Maharajas to raise the water table and feed the numerous…
Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright!
March 31, 2017By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The eighteenth century poet William Blake in his poem ‘The Tyger’ has extolled the terrifying but mesmerising majesty and power that a tiger exudes. He marvels over how God himself must have felt amazed and mesmerised by this majesty and grace after creating the king of beasts. This poem…
Clean Bottoms Continued… on Public Demand!
March 25, 2017By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD My last write-up about ‘Clean Bottoms’ has evoked a tremendous and continuing response from readers both from within and outside the country. Readers are writing or calling up to say that the absence of facilities to wash up in many high-end hotels in our own country is indeed a…
Importance of washing bottoms!
March 19, 2017Sir, Congratulations to Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem on his highly interesting and socially relevant article ‘Let Clean Bottoms Come First!’ in SOM dated Mar.17. Here is a quotation from Shashi Tharoor’s latest book ‘An Era of Darkness’ on the British Empire in India, which is related to the same subject: The East India Company had…
Let Clean Bottoms Come First!
March 17, 2017By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Just three days ago I saw an ad in my newspaper for a hands-free bottom washing device that can be fitted to our Western-style toilet bowls which are now clearly overtaking the humble squat down Indian toilets even in middle-class homes across the length and breadth of our country….
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