By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD On Friday I read with much interest and happiness the interview that SOM had published with Dr. H. M. Virupaksha, the about-to-retire Medical Superintendent of the PKTB Hospital in our city, who was once a student there! My happiness came from knowing that this hospital with its own very…
Warriors on Two Wheels !
June 13, 2021By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic started wreaking havoc on people’s lives, much is being said about the services of many agencies like the doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, para-medical staff, Police personnel, Health Department staff and the humble civic service workers. As we have all seen in the very recent…
Heroes; not Unseen but certainly Unsung !
June 6, 2021By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The week that has gone by has been a very traumatising and painful one for the entire medical and para-medical fraternity of the country. I say this because of the two very serious incidents we saw of hoodlums attacking the very same hospitals and doctors who were treating COVID…
Are we in a wrong kind of lockdown ?
May 30, 2021By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Yesterday we in Mysuru District have entered a more stringent kind of anti-Covid lockdown than what we had seen over the last five weeks. I call it more stringent because it leaves only two days a week open for citizens to do their shopping for their daily needs. Although…
The need for a more Dynamic Lockdown !
May 23, 2021By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The Karnataka Government has announced the extension of the ongoing, nearly month-long lockdown for a further two weeks. Yes, it is the same kind of lockdown in every way that we have been having over the last four weeks. This suggests that no one in the Government think tanks…
The buck stops here, or does it ?
April 25, 2021By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD There are times when I think that I have told a story fully and that there is nothing else to talk about it when some most unexpected developments nudge me to go on and tell some more! This is the situation that I am now in because of the…
Some more Music and some Mystery too !
April 18, 2021By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In my last article I said that I would be writing about my meeting with a regular reader of my column, D. Madanraj Urs who wrote to me saying that he wanted to gift me some vintage gramophone records, after reading about my interest in the music of the…
More Music comes looking for Me !
April 4, 2021By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Starting from the days of my early childhood, till as late as the late seventies, we had this tradition of listening to our collection of records, first on our hand wound gramophone and later on the much newer electric record players that we acquired as time went by. Whenever…
More Musical Musings from the Golden Era !
March 28, 2021By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD After I wrote my last article about the two antique gramophone records that I received as a gift from my schoolmate Mukesh and his wife Madhu, I have been inundated by letters, messages and phone calls from friends, acquaintances and complete strangers too. Some articles that I write have…
A Golden Gift from a Golden Era !
March 14, 2021By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Yesterday, as I was sitting in my clinic doing my routine work of seeing patients, Mukesh Leelaram my close friend from my school-days and his wife Madhu, dropped in most unexpectedly. As the lady struggled to retrieve something from her handbag, I thought that she had brought some lab…
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