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I discovered one more Godman!
Last evening between 6 pm and 8 pm, I experienced Mahatria Ra, who spoke to tell the audience (whom he often described as crowd) that “Life hinges on 3 relationships.” The Convocation…
14 Feb 2023 · 6 min read
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All about Birds, for Little Buds !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD My friend Dr. Sudhir Oswal, a practicing Physician like me, who is based in New Delhi, recently sent me a link to a site which was…
12 Feb 2023 · 5 min read
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Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan Vs India
Many in India had expressed many kinds of opinions on Pakistan’s former Dictator General Pervez Musharraf’s death on Feb. 5, 2023 in Dubai. Vir Sanghvi, the well-known author, television journalist and columnist…
10 Feb 2023 · 4 min read
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Former IB Officer R.N. Kulkarni murder case: Delay, Delayed...
It has been three months since R.N. Kulkarni was murdered on Nov. 4, 2022. The Police have still not filed a chargesheet. That apart, the reason that led to the murder —…
4 Feb 2023 · 5 min read
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Air Rage
Most of us love travelling. We don’t mind rustic travel when we are young, but as we get older, we are inclined to have, if not a luxurious travel experience, then at…
28 Jan 2023 · 5 min read
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A doctor’s prescription for the ‘bed-ridden’ Yeshasvini Scheme!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem In my last article about the pitfalls of the Yeshasvini medical insurance scheme that has been relaunched by the State Government, I highlighted why it is bound…
22 Jan 2023 · 6 min read
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What does Davos mean to India?
Are we benefiting from this annual shindig? If not, why are we there? Our Prime Minister Narendra Modi has, at least, redeemed our country’s honour among the comity of nations by sending…
16 Jan 2023 · 7 min read
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Dangerous Public Works
On Tuesday, a 28-year-old woman and her two-and-half-year-old son were killed after a reinforcement structure made of iron rods for constructing a Namma Metro pillar crashed on a bike-borne family in Bengaluru.…
14 Jan 2023 · 6 min read
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Of Beard & Men
Whether or not Rahul Gandhi’s attempt at political reinvention and rejuvenation via ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ will succeed is yet to be seen. But what can be seen right now is his bush.…
7 Jan 2023 · 5 min read
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Musings on last days of Spiritual Masters of Sanatana Dharma
The primordial question to mankind is found in the Rigveda (8,000 years old). The question is: Who knows and who can say whence it all came and how creation happened? This question,…
7 Jan 2023 · 5 min read
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A great master fades away - Sri Siddeshwara Swamiji
Last evening around 10 pm I felt a tad diminished as a humanist on learning from TV about the passing away of Sri Siddeshwara Swamiji of Jnanayogashram, Vijayapura (formerly Bijapur). Though Swamiji…
3 Jan 2023 · 5 min read
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Mumbo-Jumbo of Man’s Birth, Life and Death
And it is a paradox he will not even know how he will kick the bucket — illness, accident, suicide or murder. That is the mystery of life and death! Therefore, the…
2 Jan 2023 · 5 min read
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Yeshasvini Scheme: A lethal injection for Private Hospitals!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I’ll start my article today with a parable that is very relevant to the present times. It appears, there were a cow and her calf, reared…
1 Jan 2023 · 6 min read
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COVID Year Continues?
There is much anticipation and hope for 2023. Sadly 2022, while not as bad as 2020 or 2021, has ended on a sombre note. No, not because we’ve been told “No DJ…
31 Dec 2022 · 5 min read
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Fanatic Hues
Oh! Religion is at it again. The bane of our existence is now going after colours! Colours are an essential part of most religions, but claiming religious proprietary over a particular colour…
24 Dec 2022 · 5 min read
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Godman Chandraswami & Margaret Thatcher
When iron melts, you get molten. When Iron Lady dies, you get either ash if cremated or dust, if buried — “dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return.” Now that…
22 Dec 2022 · 8 min read
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Thoughts on Patriotism Nationalism and Jingoism
This is the concluding part of the Abracadabra written on 9th November 2017. In view of two important talks on the similar subject by two well-known political thinkers of our times namely…
18 Dec 2022 · 6 min read
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Clogged Judiciary
I boarded a connecting flight from Kolkata to Bengaluru. My co-passenger, a chatty elderly gentleman, said he had been visiting Bengaluru for 19 years, not because he loved the city but because…
17 Dec 2022 · 4 min read
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Is religion darkness?
It was early morning of 3rd December, 2022 when I reached home from Bengaluru Airport on my return from Kashmir. Having slept in the Flybus, sleep has bid me goodbye and a…
14 Dec 2022 · 4 min read
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Two beautiful buildings, but whither heritage?
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently I saw a news report in Star of Mysore that the Command Area Development Authority (CADA) building in our city was getting a complete…
11 Dec 2022 · 5 min read
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A tourist’s view of Kashmir: Heaven on earth...! —2
[Continued from Dec. 6] The ancient history of Kashmir, as narrated by me earlier in this column, is in sharp contrast to the present history of Kashmir. Except probably for the geography…
9 Dec 2022 · 9 min read
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A tourist’s view of Kashmir: Heaven on earth...! —1
Om Namah Shivaya’ be the invocation because according to a book by N.K. Singh titled ‘Saivism in Kashmir’ the first religion of Kashmir was Saivism — worship of Shiva. I purchased the…
6 Dec 2022 · 5 min read
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End of the tale of two Stalwarts!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In my last two articles I wrote about J.B.S. Haldane, the more than life-sized and more than queer man of science, who left Britain, the country…
27 Nov 2022 · 9 min read
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Whatever happened to bravehearts of Kashmir? Ask Vikram Sampath!
Last month an interesting book about forgotten India — Hindustan, Bharat — was released in Bengaluru titled “Bravehearts of Bharat - Vignettes from Indian History” by the young historian Vikram Sampath. A…
24 Nov 2022 · 5 min read