By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem The reason why Nagarahole forest, in particular, was Prof. KV’s favourite destination for his Botanical excursions was because it had as its caretaker and Range Forest Officer, K.M. Chinnappa, a complete outdoors man. So at every visit to Nagarahole, this gentleman would lead our group, pointing out to us the…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In my last and concluding article about my visit to the Falaknuma Palace in Hyderabad, I had mentioned about the Jacob Diamond, the fifth largest diamond in the world, that was acquired and owned by Mir Mahboob Ali Khan, the sixth Nizam of Hyderabad. This diamond was known by…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem In my last article, I wrote about my visit to the magnificent Falaknuma Palace at Hyderabad. The response from fascinated readers to my article about it was so profuse that I decided to acquiesce to their requests and write this unplanned sequel. Obviously, most people are so fascinated by the…
There is no denying that there’s an urgent need for increasing the awareness about birds, especially among the younger generation. Thankfully there’s a very heartening development here in our city. You may remember that the members of a little known organisation called the Jeeva Daya Jain Charity, comprising mostly ladies, has been conducting a spirited…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The year was 1975. I was a first year medical student at the M.R. Medical College, Gulbarga and we were on a class tour of Aurangabad and the world famous Ajanta and Ellora Caves nearby. That was the time when Arif Zafar, my classmate from Raichur and I were…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD My friend Dr. Sudhir Oswal, a practicing Physician like me, who is based in New Delhi, recently sent me a link to a site which was giving out free books about our common backyard birds, to anyone interested in knowing about them. Being a keen birder, who frequently goes…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem In my last article about the pitfalls of the Yeshasvini medical insurance scheme that has been relaunched by the State Government, I highlighted why it is bound to only become a dismal failure like many other such Government endeavours. The main reason why it is destined to be unviable is…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I’ll start my article today with a parable that is very relevant to the present times. It appears, there were a cow and her calf, reared by a farmer, dwelling in his farm, that stood next to a dense forest. The mother and calf duo would graze every day,…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently I saw a news report in Star of Mysore that the Command Area Development Authority (CADA) building in our city was getting a complete makeover. As most of us Mysureans know, this very ornamental and majestic building which stands on Sayyaji Rao Road, in close proximity to…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In my last two articles I wrote about J.B.S. Haldane, the more than life-sized and more than queer man of science, who left Britain, the country of his birth, as a disillusioned man, to settle down in India, where he lived till his death on 1st December, 1964. I…
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