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A super elite class?
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In a move which is perhaps the first-of-its-kind in our country, a Judge of the Allahabad High Court is on the verge of being impeached and…
6 Jul 2025 · 5 min read
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Of bad medicines & bad outcomes!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent announcement by an international drug testing laboratory that many anti-cancer drugs of Indian origin have failed to clear quality tests by alarmingly wide margins,…
29 Jun 2025 · 5 min read
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A miracle in Jerusalem
While writing the Abracadabra titled “Pondering over wars and warmongers of the world!” on June 19, 2025, I remembered my trip to Israel 28 years ago. In 1997, I went on a…
21 Jun 2025 · 5 min read
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Pondering over wars and warmongers of the world !
War begins in the minds of men.— Atharvaveda War is to man, what maternity is to woman.— Benito Mussolini Has Operation Sindoor accomplished its mission? Yes or No? The answer is both…
19 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
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Justice, Oh, So Miserably Misplaced!
By Dr. K. Javed Nayeem, MD Some time ago, I had an occasion to write an article about how a petty thief who had stolen a pair of buffaloes and a calf…
15 Jun 2025 · 5 min read
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Promote Spoken Kannada NOW !
Recent events underscore how language is becoming a flashpoint. From pro-Kannada protests over shop signage to actor Kamal Haasan’s factually incorrect claim that “Kannada was born from Tamil,” linguistic tensions are simmering.…
14 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
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Reflecting on the way Jewish people earn and spend
I strongly feel that Google and the miracle of digital technology, WhatsApp, are greatly contributing to educate people and widen their knowledge on every subject under the sun. Talk of self-education? These…
10 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
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FOMO & Compensation
A victory celebration turned to tragedy. But when the state of our Police and the quality of our political leadership are tragic, we are bound to have tragedies. It appears the reasons…
7 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
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Believe it or Not: The Pain and a Dream
Last night I had a severe pain in my left back with vice-like grip of muscle commonly called muscle catch or a cramp. It was so severe, I could not lie down…
5 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
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MDA: The Omen Musings on ‘Heart Lamp’
The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 fortuitously raised the crucial question about the maintenance of Muslim personal law, as it has led to a clash between Personal Law…
2 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
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A Most Memorable Reunion!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The weekend that has just gone by, was a very nostalgic and emotional trip back in time for me, because it marked the passing of a…
1 Jun 2025 · 5 min read
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Shashi Tharoor, Congress MP, crosses the Rubicon!
Despite reluctance and reservation on the part of the Congress party, Shashi Tharoor, the Congress MP, agreed to lead one of the seven delegations sent by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP-led NDA…
30 May 2025 · 3 min read
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Booker Tiara for Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi
“At this time of ‘Operation Sindoor’ of conflict, we also have ‘Operation Saree’ of bonding...” This 2025 year of our Lord, a Kannadiga writer Banu Mushtaq of Hassan, Karnataka, has won the…
25 May 2025 · 2 min read
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Flood of Thoughts
More rain, no drain Bengaluru flooded again. And nobody was surprised. While citizens waded through chest-deep water, leaders wasted no time in turning a tragedy they created into a theatre with photo…
24 May 2025 · 4 min read
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Kashmiri Lady IAS Officer remembers her home in PoK
Last Tuesday I went to see a friend after a month’s disconnect. Sipping into the spirit of my friend’s hospitality, our conversation narrowed down from family and friends to the current burning…
22 May 2025 · 4 min read
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In war truth is casualty
Adversarial media working on hidden agenda ? Operation Sindoor “Because of an abrupt ceasefire, Operation Sindoor has completed its mission only partially. But cinders remain. Who knows, it might be ignited if…
19 May 2025 · 4 min read
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A Re-Look at Our Green Heritage
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The trees in and around our city have been in the news, sadly for some very wrong and unhappy reasons, over the past one month. The…
18 May 2025 · 6 min read
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Boycott on spot ?
The call to boycott Turkey and Azerbaijan is currently trending in India following these Nations’ open support for Pakistan. Similarly, there’s a growing demand to boycott Pakistani artistes. But do such boycotts…
17 May 2025 · 4 min read
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Musings on mystery of Pahalgam
Did Jesus live in this village of the shepherds? Pahalgam in Kashmir, where the dastardly terrorist attack, targeting male Hindus, took place on 22nd April 2025, according to apocryphal history, is a…
17 May 2025 · 3 min read
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Blitzkrieg: Now annex PoK as assured in the Preamble of our Constitution
Last night at eight when our Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the Nation, our countrymen and women heard him with pride. Earlier, he had told the country and the world that he…
13 May 2025 · 4 min read
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Mindless Mismanagement, Slightly Mitigated!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week I wrote about how thoughtlessly our civic authorities have behaved in chopping down forty beautiful Yellow Shower trees on the Hyder Ali Road, under…
11 May 2025 · 4 min read
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A China hand in Pahalgam attack
Like every Indian, I was overcome with shock and anger after hearing about Pahalgam terror attack. As the emotional dust settled, a darker question emerged: Has Pakistan now become China’s lapdog? The…
10 May 2025 · 5 min read
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Tall Trees, in Tall Trouble
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A full two weeks have passed, after forty majestic copper-pod trees (Peltophorum pterocarpum) along the two sides of the Hyder Ali Road in our city, were…
4 May 2025 · 5 min read
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Karnataka is losing... ... One factory at a time
Another opportunity slips through Karnataka’s fingers. Silectric Semiconductor Manufacturing Pvt. Ltd., which was considering Mysuru for its next plant, has now backed out. The official reason? “Issues with technical direction,” stated the…
3 May 2025 · 4 min read