By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The Government has announced that schools across the country will be re-opened to conduct face-to-face teaching for students of class 9th to 12th from the 21st…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Over the past two weeks I have written about interesting history of the two centuries-old Lushington Bridge across the River Cauvery at Shivanasamudra and how it…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Picking up the thread of my last week’s narration about the historic Lushington Bridge at Shivanasamudra and my dismay at its botched up restoration in the…
By Dr.K. Javeed Nayeem As most of us perhaps know ‘A bridge too Far’ was the title of an epic war movie from the seventies about the Second World War, based on…
No SOS for we the people By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It is a very well-known fact that in our country our leaders have two different sets of rules. One set…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD We all know very well that we are all going through some very trying times with the Covid-19 virus doing the rounds in the air and…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD As we have all been seeing over the past five months, all writings and discussions about the global Covid-19 pandemic have been of a very grim…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Yes, we the people are making some mistakes in the way some of us are reacting to the march of the Covid-19 pandemic through our towns…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Yes you may say “Oh no, this is just another article about Covid-19!” But I would like to say, No, this is not just another article about…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In the recent demise of Dr. N. Kannan on 31st May 2020, we Mysureans have lost an iconic figure and one of the most well-known doctors…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I’m sure that I’ll not be wrong if I say that nothing has shaken the present generations of mankind as much as the current Covid-19 crisis…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Thanks to modern technology, for the first time in the history of mankind after the Deadly Plague of 1918, we are staring into the eyes of…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD My morning newspaper today says that our State Budget does not have much funds earmarked to boost tourism except for a very modest allocation to promote…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD As a practising doctor over nearly forty long years, I have had an occasion to interact closely with the many medical representatives who visit my clinic…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD William Shakespeare, the immortal playwright, narrates a very delightful tale of joy and mirth in his comedy ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ which has remained one of…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Like a bolt from the blue, the spectre of the Coronavirus infection which was almost unknown to most people has come into the limelight over the past…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD There is a video clip from an under-informed and over-enthusiastic news channel that is doing the rounds these days in YouTube and social media platforms that…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The year was 1965 and I was a student of the seventh standard at St. Mary’s English Middle School. The academic year started with everyone I…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD In yesterday's SOM my friend and fellow writer N.K.A. Ballal with his long experience in the tourism industry has very graphically described how unsuspecting tourists are…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It is reported that our Government is considering the idea of bringing in measures that will ensure that the identity and phone number of the first…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A report in my morning newspaper today says that the Government is finding it increasingly difficult to recruit doctors who are willing to serve in rural…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A recent report says that the tap water supplied to residents in fifteen out of twenty one of our major cities and State capitals where the…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD This morning I attended the Month’s Mind Mass held to pray for the soul of Mrs. Dorothy Fernandez, who passed away at the age of eighty…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem I ask this question simply out of frustration that overcomes me when I see how neglected our city is across its entire length and breadth these days.…
