By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A recent report says that the tap water supplied to residents in fifteen out of twenty one of our major cities and State capitals where the survey was conducted was found to be unsafe. We have to be thankful that it was found safe in six of them! Delhi…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD This morning I attended the Month’s Mind Mass held to pray for the soul of Mrs. Dorothy Fernandez, who passed away at the age of eighty six on the 15th of last month. She was my music teacher when I was studying at the Good Shepherd Convent Primary School…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem I ask this question simply out of frustration that overcomes me when I see how neglected our city is across its entire length and breadth these days. Our roads are in their most miserable state ever. Over the years that have gone by, before every Dasara, we used to see…
By T.J.S. George At last, someone said history should be re-written from India’s point of view. Praise be to our Home Ministerji. As he said, Guptavanshik – Veer Skandgupta Vikramaditya is unknown to our children. That is a shame because it was Guptavanshik – Veer Skandgupta Vikramaditya who expanded our border from Junagadh to Afghanistan. …
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD With a little extra rain even our rock solid Chamundi Hill seems to be in some amount of danger going by the fairly disturbing landslide that occurred there three days ago. Since the rain that we have experienced in and around our city has not been above average, I…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I woke up to a refreshing bit of news in my morning paper today. It appears the Government at the Centre is planning to privatise about 150 trains and 50 Railway Stations across the country in a bid to improve the travel experience of train travellers. As someone who…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Till he acquired it my son Adnan’s greatest ambition in life was to arm himself with a car driving licence. So he organised and orchestrated things in such a way that he would get his learner’s licence exactly on his 18th birthday. He thought that it was very wise groundwork…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD This is the story of two books with the same title — Lights Out. While one tells us about what darkness has done to one man the other tells us about what light has done to the whole of mankind! Very recently, I had been invited to the St….
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently we read about some good Samaritans of our city being honoured by a group of organisations for the services they had rendered in enriching and preserving our environment. What lent an aura of uniqueness to this event was the presence of four spiritual heads who did the…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Teachers’ Day has gone by yesterday. Although different countries across the world celebrate their Teachers’ Days on different dates thankfully most countries have this tradition. In India our age-old Teachers’ Day was on ‘Guru Poornima’ the full moon day of the month of Ashada which falls in June or…
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