By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Like the rest of the world we too are engaged in waging a war on COVID-19, the global pandemic. Like the way each country is fighting this problem in its own way, our country too is no different in having its own battle strategy. While some measures have been…
The Pleasure & Pain of Saving Trees !
October 16, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD My good friend N. Raghavan of Raghulal & Co who needs no introduction to Mysureans, has perhaps the unique distinction of not only having planted the largest number of roadside shade trees in and around our city but also protecting every one of them with tree guards till they…
Do we need such a ‘festive’ Dasara?
October 9, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Dasara has arrived this year too like it has been doing over the centuries. Yes, it is our much- loved annual guest and it is also our State festival because it has long ago transcended much of its original religious identity and has now become an essential part of…
Fit India Freedom Run Drive
October 2, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD There is no denying the fact that wherever we are in this wide world, we all first learn to write only with a pencil. It is a different matter that the pencils we use may be of many different kinds depending on what we use them for. But essentially…
Of Good Old Guns and Gunsmiths !
September 25, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In his column Nostalgically Speaking, on the 13th September, KBG has written about S.G. Sanath Kumar, the former Head Master of the Hardwicke High School who was also a gun lover and shikar enthusiast of the yesteryears. Among many other things, KBG has also mentioned at the end of…
Re-opening Schools, an unwise move
September 18, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The Government has announced that schools across the country will be re-opened to conduct face-to-face teaching for students of class 9th to 12th from the 21st of this month. With the COVID-19 pandemic still raging at its peak I feel this is a very unwise move which may prove…
Of Two Bridges across Two Rivers
September 4, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Over the past two weeks I have written about interesting history of the two centuries-old Lushington Bridge across the River Cauvery at Shivanasamudra and how it is now being restored in a most sloppy and disgraceful way. Unless some of us who happen to be heritage-conscious citizens, step in…
Bridging the past and the present !
August 28, 2020By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Picking up the thread of my last week’s narration about the historic Lushington Bridge at Shivanasamudra and my dismay at its botched up restoration in the present era, I would like to take you back by two centuries and give you some refreshingly different and very interesting information from…
A Bridge not too Far !
August 21, 2020By Dr.K. Javeed Nayeem As most of us perhaps know ‘A bridge too Far’ was the title of an epic war movie from the seventies about the Second World War, based on a book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan. The story revolves around a strategic bridge at Arnhem in the Netherlands which the…
Our selfish Covid VIPs !
August 14, 2020No SOS for we the people By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It is a very well-known fact that in our country our leaders have two different sets of rules. One set is exclusively for themselves and their families and the other is for all the people who place them on their pedestals of power…
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