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Chamundi Hill in Peril ?
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD With a little extra rain even our rock solid Chamundi Hill seems to be in some amount of danger going by the fairly disturbing landslide that…
25 Oct 2019 · 5 min read
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Railways poised on the Right Track!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I woke up to a refreshing bit of news in my morning paper today. It appears the Government at the Centre is planning to privatise about…
11 Oct 2019 · 5 min read
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Unmindful Police, Unmindful Public!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem Till he acquired it my son Adnan’s greatest ambition in life was to arm himself with a car driving licence. So he organised and orchestrated things in…
27 Sept 2019 · 6 min read
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Of Darkness and Light !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD This is the story of two books with the same title — Lights Out. While one tells us about what darkness has done to one man…
20 Sept 2019 · 5 min read
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A Noble Soul on a Noble Mission!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Very recently we read about some good Samaritans of our city being honoured by a group of organisations for the services they had rendered in enriching…
13 Sept 2019 · 6 min read
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Teachers and the Taught
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Teachers’ Day has gone by yesterday. Although different countries across the world celebrate their Teachers’ Days on different dates thankfully most countries have this tradition. In…
6 Sept 2019 · 5 min read
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More Doctors, More Health !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I have this rather odd habit of asking every youngster I meet what he or she wants to become in life. After listening to their dreams…
30 Aug 2019 · 5 min read
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A Bridge too far?
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last Friday I wrote about the impact of human inaction vis a vis the impact of flood waters on the historic Srirangapatna Fort, a stone’s throw…
23 Aug 2019 · 5 min read
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Flooded Resorts and Foolhardy Tourists
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Even as we are going through a very grim and devastating flood situation, we are reading many disturbing reports of tourists being stranded in flooded resorts…
16 Aug 2019 · 5 min read
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A Sad and Needless Death !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I feel that in the sad and untimely death of V.G. Siddhartha, we have lost a very dignified and respectable man who was much loved and…
2 Aug 2019 · 4 min read
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Some Roadside Ramblings!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It was reported in the press very recently that our Government that existed technically until two days ago was thinking of building a median with Jersey…
26 Jul 2019 · 5 min read
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Of Hefty Fines & Heedless Drivers!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Penalties for almost all traffic offences and vehicle document lapses have been revised upwards by our Government with the good intention of hammering some sense, albeit…
19 Jul 2019 · 5 min read
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Of Smart Drones & Dumb Leaders !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Yesterday morning when I saw my newspaper headline I almost choked on my own laughter. Although we are told that it is a good thing to…
5 Jul 2019 · 5 min read
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My Truck Driving Days!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week I told you about the time long ago, when I drove buses and today I will be telling you about how as a young…
21 Jun 2019 · 6 min read
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My Bus Driving Days !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week my teacher Dr. Dewapriya Galagali wrote a letter to SOM about an incident when out of sheer necessity I had to drive a bus.…
14 Jun 2019 · 6 min read
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Of the joy and sorrow of travelling !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I’ll first tell you about the joy of travelling and then come to the sad or even bad part. The only time I get to use…
31 May 2019 · 6 min read
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Can we all be a little more dignified please?
By Dr.K. Javeed Nayeem What can perhaps be called the greatest show on earth is thankfully over. Yes, the Indian elections qualify to be called that because today we are undoubtedly the…
24 May 2019 · 5 min read
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In quest of the vanishing sparrow !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The humble house sparrow may only be a very tiny speck in our environment but it has remained a very integral part of man’s existence over…
17 May 2019 · 6 min read
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Selling the Past... in the Present!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I spotted him sitting on the roadside near the gate of the Catholic Centre on T.N. Narasimha Murthy Circle which is more popularly known as Millennium…
10 May 2019 · 4 min read
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Gulmohar gone forever... But Hope lives on !
By Dr. K.Javeed Nayeem, MD Last week I had written about a young and robust Gulmohar tree in full bloom that was about to be axed down due to the ongoing road…
3 May 2019 · 4 min read
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Staying away from Steroids!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The last article I wrote was about how some unscrupulous medical practitioners, both qualified and unqualified, rampantly use a group of drugs called steroids to effect…
26 Apr 2019 · 5 min read
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Death Dealers in Disguise!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last Friday I wrote about the carefree ‘medical practice’ of some of our roadside native healers who do not have to worry about adhering to any…
12 Apr 2019 · 7 min read
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The Joy & Magic of Roadside Medicine!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Almost all over our country and even in our own city you can see some itinerant families who practice traditional medicine on the roadside. All of…
5 Apr 2019 · 5 min read
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Discouraging Useless Research
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It has been reported that the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has recently issued an advisory to Central Universities in the country to discourage research scholars…
29 Mar 2019 · 6 min read