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,…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent collapse of a second portion of the famed, more than a century old, Maharani’s College building in our city has claimed the life of a young daily wage earner, with his two little kids now being left fatherless and his household, left bereft of its only means…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently, I was more than a little distressed to read in my newspaper that with the surge in demand by eager passengers, wanting to travel to participate in the ongoing Kumbh Mela, the air fares from Hyderabad to Prayagraj have gone up to Rs 1.2 lakh per ticket….
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last Sunday I had the opportunity of spending a full three hours, with my family, immersed in a rapturous reverie that thankfully we in Mysuru have been enjoying year after year, for the past twenty-three years, thanks to the untiring efforts of its sponsors, organisers and performers of a…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Two days ago, I read in the front page of the SOM that the State Cabinet has approved the proposal to build a new bus stand over a 16-acre area at Bannimantap in Mysuru, at an estimated cost of Rs. 120 crore. Yes, a mere Rs. 120 crore may seem…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD As we march along with the rapidly changing times that we are in, we encounter newer and newer problems, for which we have to find solutions, some of which are not easy to come by. But this is the inevitable price we have to pay for progress and there…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Last Tuesday, an elderly gentleman walked into my consulting room and introduced himself as Suryanarayana Rao, a retired engineer, who had served in many States, across the country. He said that he was a full ninety-two years old but to me he seemed only to be a full seventy-two at…
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