By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Despite numerous suggestions and appeals and a few feeble protests too, from some very sensible and concerned individuals and groups, our State government seems hell-bent on creating a new bus stand for our city, in the now beautiful Bannimantap area. Yes, all protests in Namma Mysuru have always been…
Heart attack scare: MAHAN doctors to assist Jayadeva Hospital
July 10, 2025Mysore/Mysuru: In a novel initiative aimed at easing the pressure on doctors at Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research (Jayadeva Hospital), Mysuru, cardiologists and diagnostic specialists affiliated with MAHAN (Mysore Association of Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Clinics and Diagnostic Centres) have volunteered their services to help manage the sudden surge in patients. The idea…
A super elite class?
July 6, 2025By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In a move which is perhaps the first-of-its-kind in our country, a Judge of the Allahabad High Court is on the verge of being impeached and the process of collecting the signatures of our legislators, necessary for the purpose, is already underway. This has been necessitated because of the…
Of bad medicines & bad outcomes!
June 29, 2025By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent announcement by an international drug testing laboratory that many anti-cancer drugs of Indian origin have failed to clear quality tests by alarmingly wide margins, should come as an eye-opener to our authorities vested with the very crucial responsibility of the enforcement of drug quality control standards. The…
A Most Memorable Reunion!
June 1, 2025By 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….
A Re-Look at Our Green Heritage
May 18, 2025By 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…
Mindless Mismanagement, Slightly Mitigated!
May 11, 2025By 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…
Tall Trees, in Tall Trouble
May 4, 2025By 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…
Rare trees at risk: Dr. Javeed Nayeem
April 21, 2025Mysuru: 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…
God Sees the Truth, But Waits!
April 6, 2025Leo 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…















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