By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The coming new year is bound to be one with a very sad beginning, at least for me. Although there are bound to be millions like me across the world to share my grief, this will in no way lessen my own pain and angst. I say this because…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last Thursday, I was a part of the organising team of a small function that was held by the Apollo BGS Hospitals in our city, at the Rani Bahadur Auditorium to mark the National Organ Donation Day. Since this is not a press release about the event and since…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Just a few days ago my family and I, as we often do, decided to go out for a late-night round of chats. This time we had with us a couple of in-house guests and we decided to take them to the newly opened, Nazarbad outlet of Pataka, a…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The Price of Onions’ is the name of a book by Ashok V. Desai, that I first read, exactly twenty years ago and which I have re-read a couple of times thereafter, just because I find it very interesting to go through the way everyday economics has been simplified…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It is for the third time in a very short span of time that I am writing about this subject and I hope and pray that I don’t feel compelled to write about it once again. But if we look back, not a single day passes without our new…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last Sunday, I wrote about the parking problems in our city. Very strangely, this Sunday too, I’m writing about the parking problems in our city, albeit very briefly, so that I don’t bore you with repetition and waste my breath too, addressing what seems like a clearly deaf and…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It was heartening to read in yesterday’s Star of Mysore the good news that after more than a decade of dilly-dallying, our City Corporation is going to introduce the ‘Pay and Park’ system on some of our city roads, very soon. But, how soon this is going to happen,…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week we saw the terribly disturbing tragedy of a young lady techie, losing her life, when she got trapped in her cab, that became submerged in rainwater, at the K.R. Circle underpass in Bengaluru. This is not the first time that such a thing has happened, either in…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD This article is not about what happened at the election that we have just had in our State and what its outcome was. It is also not about who should have won and who should have lost at the hustings this time. It’s too late for that, because, by…
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…
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