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The Elusive Parking Meter!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently it was announced that our city would be free from ‘Tiger Menace’ after our Traffic Police decided to wind up the arrangement of hiring…
22 Mar 2019 · 6 min read
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Un-Welcome back to Un-Swachh Mysuru !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The rather amusing but certainly shameful drama of decking up Mysuru to qualify for the top place among the cleanest cities of the country has just…
8 Mar 2019 · 5 min read
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An Interesting Cyber-Chase!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week a lady colleague of my son, Adnan, found upon arrival at the office that her very expensive mobile phone was missing. When a careful…
1 Mar 2019 · 5 min read
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Saving Karanji Lake, in a Sad Way!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Luck seems to have run out for our Karanji Lake, though not completely. It is a place which I visit on most mornings with my wife.…
22 Feb 2019 · 6 min read
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Of Doctors & Patients - Effects and Side Effects !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD These are days when one of the greatest relationships that once existed between doctors and patients has become one of the greatest divides. Contrary to what…
16 Feb 2019 · 7 min read
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My childhood fascination for Chittor
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last Friday I wrote about my recent visit to the fortress town of Chittorgarh at Rajasthan and my very disappointing experience with the guide there who…
25 Jan 2019 · 5 min read
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A Tryst with Rani Padmini of Chittor
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem From Udaipur which was our base, a day long excursion took my family and me to the fortress town of Chittorgarh, about a hundred-and-twenty kilometres North-East of…
18 Jan 2019 · 5 min read
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Sad tale of two Hill-Top Palaces!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In my article of last Friday I said that Udaipur and Mysuru are similar because they are both cities of Lakes and Palaces. I would like…
11 Jan 2019 · 5 min read
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Musings amid Lakes & Palaces
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD As I said last Friday, our own Mysuru and distant Udaipur, which I visited recently with my family, seem like sister cities to me since they…
4 Jan 2019 · 5 min read
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Why this Frenzied Rush?
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Our new Tourism Minister seems to be as excited with his first portfolio as a young boy would be with a new toy. In his excitement…
28 Dec 2018 · 5 min read
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Unsound ‘Sound & Light’ Shows!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD These days ‘Sound and Light’ shows have become a very popular means of showcasing history. This is not so just in our country but all over…
7 Dec 2018 · 5 min read
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Making Safety the First Priority
By Dr. K. Javeen Nayeem, MD The recent ghastly bus accident in Mandya District which took a toll of thirty lives has jolted people’s sensibilities with its magnitude. But the question that…
30 Nov 2018 · 5 min read
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Making Exhibitions Safe
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Every now and then we see many exhibitions being held in our city, especially at the Maharaja’s College Grounds or at the Bharat Scouts and Guides…
23 Nov 2018 · 5 min read
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A Prophet for All Time !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem According to the Muslim lunar calendar, today happens to be the birth anniversary of Mohammed (Peace be upon him), the Prophet of Islam and the day is…
21 Nov 2018 · 6 min read
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My brush with the Ten Commandments!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Picking up the thread of narration from what I had written last Friday about popularising the sport of competition shooting in our schools and colleges, I…
16 Nov 2018 · 7 min read
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Shooting to Thrill!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent report in SOM that a sports complex built by the MUDA at great cost at Vijayanagar in our city has been lying idle and…
9 Nov 2018 · 5 min read
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A vision revisited, after a full 10 years!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Friends, today is a sad day for me ! I should have been celebrating over the completion of thirteen years of my writing this column. But…
2 Nov 2018 · 7 min read
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A Sad, 10-day Drama!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Our Dasara, as we all know, is a grand ten-day spectacle. To different people it means many different things. To the thousands of tourists who throng…
12 Oct 2018 · 7 min read
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A Journey back to Jukeboxes & Jim Reeves !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Going by the feedback I’ve been getting over the past few days, my last article about the enchanting moments my wife and I spent, over weekend…
5 Oct 2018 · 5 min read
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Gunning for ‘Gun House’ once again!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Yesterday evening as I was turning the pages of SOM to scan the headlines, I literally jumped out of my skin in excitement upon stumbling on…
21 Sept 2018 · 5 min read
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All is well that ends well!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Last week I wrote about our trip to Hyderabad and the theft of the Nizam’s Golden Tiffin Carrier from his private museum there just a few hours…
14 Sept 2018 · 5 min read
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A Strange Coincidence!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A priceless, richly ornamented, solid gold Tiffin Carrier along with its accompanying cup, saucer and spoon, all of them inlaid with precious stones like rubies and…
7 Sept 2018 · 5 min read
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A Time to Ponder over Nature’s Fury !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Even as the affected people in flood-ravaged Kodagu and Kerala are being rehabilitated with great difficulty, we are already beginning to hear faint rumblings of a…
24 Aug 2018 · 5 min read
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Taming a largely man-made tragedy
By Dr. Javeed Nayeem Over the past few days people living in some parts of our country have been going through a nightmarish flood situation due to the unusually heavy rainfall this…
17 Aug 2018 · 5 min read