By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In my last article I narrated the story of how during a train journey, exactly 40 years ago, I once amazed all my fellow travellers and shocked a nun who was travelling with us by reading her palm and correctly revealing her past. When she became very emotional and…
A Nun’s Day Out with a Soothsayer!
September 5, 2021By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week KBG in a very touching epitaph upon her recent demise, wrote about Sr. Annette, a nun of the order of the Carmelite Sisters of St. Theresa and the former Principal of the Teresian College, whom KBG knew as a very close friend over many years. Sr. Annette…
Heritage Structures; The Way Forward
August 22, 2021By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Through my past four articles in this series about the three imperilled landmarks in our city, I have placed before you the sad plight they are now in and how nothing is being done to restore them to their former glory, although they all, along with many other similar…
A sad exhibit of our incompetence !
August 16, 2021By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem In my present series of articles about the neglected heritage structures of our city, our more than a hundred-and-ten-year-old Fire Brigade Building at Saraswathipuram also deserves a mention. Although the front portion of it collapsed way back in the year 2019, due to the ravages of age, rain and neglect,…
The Devaraja Market Debacle !
July 25, 2021By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In my last article, I spoke of how our stately Lansdowne Building came into being and its present sad and sorry state. Now it is time for us to pay a visit to our sprawling Devaraja Market, a portion of which collapsed due to sheer neglect way back in…
A Continuing Saga of Shameful Neglect
July 11, 2021By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last weekend, in the first part of this series about the neglected and crumbling heritage structures of our city, I wrote about the sad plight of our once magnificent Lansdowne building and why it was very close to my heart. I have been receiving many responses to my article…
Eyesores Galore in Mysore !
July 4, 2021By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD We Mysureans take a great deal of pride in the beauty and the rich heritage of our city, much of which has been very carefully hand-crafted by a very far-sighted royalty. Almost anything and everything we see here in Namma Mysuru is unique and markedly different from what we…
Seth Mohandas Tulsidas Hospital: Where there was a Will !
June 27, 2021By 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…
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