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A brand new Bus Stand, in a very wrong new place!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Two days ago, I read in the front page of the SOM that the State Cabinet has approved the proposal to build a new bus stand over…
5 Jan 2025 · 5 min read
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Combating an emerging Environmental Crisis
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD As we march along with the rapidly changing times that we are in, we encounter newer and newer problems, for which we have to find solutions,…
22 Dec 2024 · 5 min read
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The joy of reading, the right book!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Last Tuesday, an elderly gentleman walked into my consulting room and introduced himself as Suryanarayana Rao, a retired engineer, who had served in many States, across the…
1 Dec 2024 · 6 min read
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Wayward & Wandering Book Prices
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Being an avid book lover, the only thing I buy most and certainly very regularly, are books. For me, despite my half a dozen or so…
24 Nov 2024 · 6 min read
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A very graceful and dignified retirement
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Just two days ago, I read that K. Satchidanandan, the noted Malayalam writer, poet, critic and translator, has announced that he would be gradually withdrawing from…
10 Nov 2024 · 5 min read
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A desperately gasping Bengaluru!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Day in and day out, for the past so many days, we have been reading reports and seeing videos about the misery that is being wreaked…
27 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
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An Elephant Eden, at Last!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem The announcement by our Forest Minister a few days ago, that the State Government is seriously thinking of establishing a ‘Soft Release Centre’ for elephants that stray…
14 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
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Two of our most despicable and disgusting fixations!
By Dr. K. Javed Nayeem, MD Very recently, Stephen Shore, the celebrated American photographer, who through his photography, depicted life in American cities, especially during the sixties and seventies, is said to…
29 Sept 2024 · 5 min read
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Have Money, Will Spend!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD We Indian tax-payers are a very unique breed of people. Quite unlike any others, living anywhere else in this world. We cry foul at the slightest,…
22 Sept 2024 · 5 min read
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Some musings on the sad state of our city!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A recent news report says that our local authorities have announced that all footpath encroachments along the Sayyaji Rao Road, the ‘Rajpath’ of our city, would…
15 Sept 2024 · 7 min read
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Kindness and compassion, of the misplaced kind?
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A fortnight ago, I was shocked and shaken on reading the news that a seventy-six-year-old retired lady school teacher, who was on her morning walk, was…
8 Sept 2024 · 6 min read
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A coincidence of the most unusual kind!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently, to refer a patient to her, while trying to call up Dr. N. Harshitha, an ENT Surgeon, who works with me in the Apollo…
4 Aug 2024 · 4 min read
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Dr. M.M. Basavaraju An Impressive & Admirable Innings
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk and Dr. Basavaraju has made this his motto in life. My last two articles were about…
14 Jul 2024 · 4 min read
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Two gifts of gratitude, to two foster mothers!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last weekend, I wrote about the harrowing experience of Dr. H.V. Shivaram, who was attacked by a stray horse on the grounds of the Cheluvamba Hospital,…
23 Jun 2024 · 5 min read
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The ‘Kota Phenomenon’ continues!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The heavy toll that competitive exams, requiring the Kota kind of preparation, have been taking from our society, in the form of the precious lives of…
9 Jun 2024 · 6 min read
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Let’s ease the pressure on our children, now!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayaeem, MD Just a few days ago, we all read in our newspapers a very disturbing report about a young boy, who was preparing to crack the NEET…
26 May 2024 · 5 min read
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Eating a little longer and sleeping a little later!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD These days we find that almost all our cities have changed a lot from what they were until just a generation ago, with more and more…
12 May 2024 · 5 min read
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Rain in the city, at last, but at what cost?
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD After a full six weeks of desperate waiting in the sheer agony of being steeped in one of the harshest summers in recent times, our city…
5 May 2024 · 6 min read
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The Great Indian Election Exercise!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Our general elections, undoubtedly the greatest political event, that we see every five years in our country, or maybe even across the world and which are supposed…
21 Apr 2024 · 7 min read
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More musings about our Exhibition!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Going by some very interesting feedback that I have been getting over the past one week, my last article, where I discussed what our Dasara Exhibition…
7 Apr 2024 · 6 min read
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Of safe exhibitions and old memories!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The recent statement from Ayub Khan, the new Chairman of Karnataka Exhibition Authority (KEA) that henceforth, all exhibitions, of all kinds in the city, would be…
31 Mar 2024 · 8 min read
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The glorious past of a present-day landmark!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD My last article was about the striking similarity in the Torquay Fountain in England and its identical twin that we have here in our city. I…
17 Mar 2024 · 5 min read
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A Tale of Two Fountains
By Dr. Javeed Nayeem, MD My last article A Tale of Two Cities and Two Clocks, about the Big Ben in London and the Silver Jubilee Clock Tower here in Mysuru, has…
25 Feb 2024 · 5 min read
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A Tale of Two Cities & Two Clocks !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem The first part of the title of this article, as is most certainly known to almost all my readers, is actually the title of a very famous…
16 Feb 2024 · 7 min read