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A Book in search of its Owner !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Many years ago, I had written an article about how cautious and even miserly I have become about lending my books, after having lost three of…
19 Oct 2025 · 7 min read
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Dasara of a slightly different kind!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem The Dasara, our most spectacular annual show, that we Mysureans and all our guests wait for most expectantly, year after year, has come and gone too. With…
12 Oct 2025 · 6 min read
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An Evening with Jagjit Singh !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Ghazals have always been an integral source of relaxation and enjoyment for everyone in my family and although our favourites include legends like K.L. Saigal, Mehdi…
21 Sept 2025 · 7 min read
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Should we keep our beautiful trees, out of our Dasara!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Our annual Dasara has since time immemorial, been an occasion for much celebration and joy across the length and breadth of our State, although its main…
14 Sept 2025 · 5 min read
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‘Dasarafying’ Mysuru !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Come Dasara and it is time to give ‘Namma Mysuru’ its annual makeover, to make it appear at its most beautiful to all those who flock…
31 Aug 2025 · 5 min read
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A Rare, ‘Shayaraana’ Treat !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Two days ago, on Friday evening, Mysureans had a rare chance to savour some of the finest pieces of Mirza Ghalib’s poetry and prose, intertwined with…
24 Aug 2025 · 5 min read
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The Two Perils Plaguing Mysuru
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It is certainly a matter of pride that Mysuru has secured a distinction this year as the third cleanest city in the country, in its category.…
3 Aug 2025 · 5 min read
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Good Old KBG and Me!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The year was 2006 and I was one of the members of Anjuman-E-Hadiqatul Adab, then nearly a century-old small organisation, which with its handful of members,…
20 Jul 2025 · 8 min read
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The Final Nail in the Coffin of a Beautiful City?
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Despite numerous suggestions and appeals and a few feeble protests too, from some very sensible and concerned individuals and groups, our State government seems hell-bent on…
13 Jul 2025 · 6 min read
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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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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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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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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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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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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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God Sees the Truth, But Waits!
Leo Tolstoy’s merchant story, told by my class teacher, illustrates the very sad true story of a villager we are all reading in news today... By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Over…
6 Apr 2025 · 8 min read
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Heritage Museum at old DC Office is a great idea... but !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It has been announced that a Heritage Museum is being proposed to be set up at our old Deputy Commissioner’s Office, under the Central Government’s Swadesh…
23 Mar 2025 · 5 min read
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Breaking an Unholy Mould, finally!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In a landmark development in the field of medical education, our Supreme Court has recently ruled that it is time to discard the decades old ‘both…
9 Mar 2025 · 6 min read
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Why are we clipping our children’s wings?
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent decision of the Karnataka Government to strictly enforce the rule fixing the eligibility age (from the previous 5.5 years to 6 years), down to…
2 Mar 2025 · 5 min read
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The Strange ways of Destiny !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The unseen hand of God or Destiny or Providence, or by whatever name we may choose to call it, has some very strange ways of playing…
16 Feb 2025 · 7 min read
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A Helplessly Crumbling Mysuru!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent collapse of a second portion of the famed, more than a century old, Maharani’s College building in our city has claimed the life of…
9 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
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Is this not outright exploitation?
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently, I was more than a little distressed to read in my newspaper that with the surge in demand by eager passengers, wanting to travel…
2 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
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The sad state of our Kalamandira!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last Sunday I had the opportunity of spending a full three hours, with my family, immersed in a rapturous reverie that thankfully we in Mysuru have…
12 Jan 2025 · 5 min read