Medicine, culture, travel, food, healing, and human stories from my archive. Start with a trail, search for a memory, or move by year.
Roads, meals, clinics, and human encounters.The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
When did Maqroll enter my life? When did Maqroll become me ? the always about to sink steamer Halcyon and the absent minded owner from the Levant Abdur Bashur and…
Mr Rajesh Rajan, the manager of the Hotel Travancore Court at Ernakulum had organized a wonderful stay for me in Cochin this time. It was time to say good bye…
Japanese nationals seem to be the luckiest ones, having far more countries to visit without bothering with VISA.. The second one is also no surprise, Singapore, which allows almost every…
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SINGAPORE CHANGI airport consistently wins all awards for being the best Airport in the world, a distinction it holds on to, even after these many years. USA is far behind…
Original Blogger URL: https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2017/06/travels-in-month-of-may-2017-singapore.html
SURPRISING SINGAPORE Singapore usually is in the news when some of its draconian laws are highlighted in the West, much to the horror of the liberated minds. The lack of…
I was remarking to Dr C, who was giving me a mini tour of Singapour, how green Singapour looked! yes, there has been a concerted effort by the government to…
THOSE REMARKABLE MEN OF SINGAPOUR What brought Drs T and C on to my humble path of Travel? Travel by a great Chinese Admiral, in fact the greatest ever.. beats…
It Is Easy to Learn to Speak English Poorly by Yehuda Kovesh MD (London), FRAI (London) A Frenchman’s Remark A French academician once observed: “English is a language that is…
A personal reflection on travel as a life priority, offered as one person’s path rather than advice for everyone.
A medical-anthropological reflection on self, society, false prophets, and the search for a simple path to happiness.
In most civilised countries in this planet, when it comes to health care, the gate keeper is the trusted Family Doctor or GPs as they are called in English speaking…
Since the post-pandemic rush to travel took us to busier airports and congested aircrafts, the idea of having a preferred status has come into focus and also to learn about…
It was bright and early when I appeared at the Executive Lounge and the Manager, Ms SS was waiting for me. Two promising things happened with breakfast. I have been…
Once you taste the benefits of higher levels of Frequent Flier Status, retaining it becomes a type of obsession. You begin to dream of impractical voyages and excuciating journeys and…
In the last one month, I have been in France (Nantes, Quiberon) and in Madrid and then in Cochin and took the longest flight, Singapore to New York (18 hours…
After saying Good bye to the pleasant manager of the Tower House Hotel in Fort Cochin, it was time to go to Ernakulum. Mr Rajesh Rajan, manager of the Travancore…
