By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Having been a practicing physician for more than thirty five years or so, I was doing a reasonably comfortable job, having the sense to cut down on my work load as I went along my way and my hair went along its way, from black to grey and then…
Let’s not re-invite covid with ‘Revenge’ Tourism!
April 24, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently our State Health Minister and the Deputy Commissioner of Mysuru District have called upon citizens to continue to use masks, despite the Government withdrawing the official order that made their use mandatory in all public places. This tiny bit of advice should be followed with a little…
Of Men and Beasts!
April 17, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem There was a report two days ago that the elephant safari at the Bandipur National Park, which had been stopped for some years, would be resumed soon. This, I am told, is to put to good use the excess number of tamed elephants that are now overcrowding the nearby Rampura…
Brutalising doctors for doing good !
April 10, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last fortnight, we heard of a most gut-wrenching incident where a young and capable lady doctor was desperately driven to commit suicide, by a most despicable caucus of local political goons, yellow-bellied media personnel, corrupt and completely ignorant officials and the complete apathy of fellow citizens who were themselves…
Of two books, one old and one new!
March 27, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Three days ago, a picture in Star of Mysore showing a son and his mother standing near a road signboard, caught my attention. When I read on, I discovered that it was a picture of the author Devaki Jain and her son, TV news reader and anchor, Sreenivasan Jain,…
Prof. H.N. Aswathanarayana: A mentor who is no more!
March 20, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In the recent passing away of Prof. H.N. Aswathanarayana, a former Professor of Mathematics at the St. Philomena’s College, I have lost a mentor and a very fine man whom I had known over the last fifty years. We first met in the year 1970 when I got admitted…
Are ‘low-calibre men’ India’s destiny?
March 8, 2022By T.J.S. George Winston Churchill hated India. Which was natural because his mind was mutilated by imperialism, so he couldn’t understand why the stupid Indians agitated for independence. Rudyard Kipling had no such problem. Being a poet, he took a philosophical view of the world and agreed that “East is east and West is west…
ALOKA: A completely forgotten Royal Retreat
March 6, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week I wrote about the philanthropy of Pandit Rajavaidya P.H. Chandrabhan Singh, one of the Royal Physicians of Mysore, in gifting away 32 acres of his agricultural land for the establishment of a school for rural children, way back in the year 1970. I also mentioned there that…
Forgotten philanthropy recalled !
February 27, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently we were given the very heartening news that an exclusive medical post-graduate education and research facility is being planned at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) campus at Bengaluru. The IISc., was established in the year 1909 by a visionary partnership between the industrialist Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata,…
Of American Dollars, Indian Rupees and Australian Pineapples!
February 16, 2022By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I have a patient, Shama Rao, who can perhaps be called a global citizen. He and his wife Chandralekha stay here in Namma Mysuru while their three children stay abroad. A son and daughter in two different places in the US and another son in Australia. And so, Shama…
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