Apr 15, 2020
MALAYA MONGOLIA AND THE MASK. THE STORY OF DR WU LIEN TEH OF PENANG,
MALAYSIA, MONGOLIA AND THE MASK HISTORY OF THE FACE MASK Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are. Its title is an Armenian proverb;…
Stories
Field notes from the road
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.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Mar 15, 2020
BEAUTY IS IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER…. THE ORIGINS OF RACISM IN MODERN TIMES?
BEAUTY IS IN THE EYES OF THE BEHOLDER…. THE ORIGINS OF RACISM IN MODERN TIMES? I was sitting on the stretch of grass behind my sister’s house in Miami. I…
Mar 15, 2020
WHY DO WE LISTEN TO MUSIC AND LOVE IT EVEN IF YOU DONT UNDERSTAND THE LYRICS
I have always wondered why we listen to the music that we listen to. Cesaria Evora from Cabo Verde sang in Portuguese Creole that no one, not even Portuguese speakers…
Mar 15, 2020
7 19 AM 20.3.2020 IRAN. SPRING EQUINOX AND IT IS 1149 PM IN MIAMI
Today is NOWRUZ, the first day of the Iranian New Year. A terrible time, a terrible year past for the people of Iran so better to hope and dream of…
Mar 15, 2020
CUBA AND IRAN. SO FAR YET SO CLOSE TO MY HEART
We are passing through times that we had never imagined but sitting here at the sunset in Miami, I felt strangely calm. I felt connected to the entire world, as…
Mar 15, 2020
BEDLAM IN USA BUT CALM MINDFUL NIGHT IN MIAMI
People worry that they would be bored if they have to stay home for more than a few days, as most people in this world are forced to do now…
Mar 15, 2020
WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THIS EUPHORIA?
What is the origin of this EUPHORIA? It originated somewhere else, but came seeking me .. And I was listening to Alex Fox from Argentina playing his Spanish Guitar I…
Mar 15, 2020
WHEN THE MULLAH CATS ARE OUT, THE OPPRESSED MICE WILL PLAY
The entire world is concerned and occasionally in panic about the Coronavirus that is now rapidly spreading around the world. The panic is fuelled by Media, Public and Social and…
Mar 15, 2020
TWO WOMEN FROM IRAN. WHO REPRESENTS THE PEOPLE AND THEIR ASPIRATIONS?
Iran has faced nothing but crises since November 2019, which included killing of about a thousand people, the killing of Soleimani in Bagdad, downing of the Ukrainian passenger flight with…
Feb 15, 2020
LOVE OF THE LANGUAGE. ENGLISH! PLEASE NOTE IT IS SO EASY TO SPEAK IT BADLY
ENTOMOLOGY would have been one of the first words in my vocabulary that I could remember as a child. But what was the path to that knowledge? What language did…
Feb 15, 2020
OH MIGHTY AMERICA .. YOUR BLOCKADE DOES NOT AFFECT THE MIGHTY, BUT AFFECT THE HUMBLE POOR MARGINALIZED MIDDLE CLASS AND POOR PEOPLE
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I am writing this from my flat in Vedado, Havana, Cuba while listening to Iranian music. I have been thinking a lot…
Jan 15, 2020
EXCITING TIMES FOR AN ENDOCRINE PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I am a Physician specializing in Endocrinology, which is a specialty which has always been micro-molecular in its outlook and depth. As…
Jan 15, 2020
GOOD BYE, SULTAN QABOOS MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE
There was a time when there were multiple Sultanates in this world, most of which have disappeared or become ornamental, such as Sultan of Ternate or Sultan of Yogyakarta..Only two…
Jan 15, 2020
WHAT ALL HAS HAPPENED IN ONE WEEK . 4TH JAN IN MALA KERALA TO 11TH JANUARY IN MIAMI USA
Today is a Saturday, 11.1.2020 and the morning is lovely and tender here in Miami. I arrived here yesterday evening after a long and tedious flight on American Airlines (on…
Jan 15, 2020
MALA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:ON SAVING JEWISH MONUMENTS OF MALA KERALA UNDER PROF KARMACHANDRAN
SLIDES PRESENTED AT THE MALA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FIDEL with PM NEHRU at UN in September 1960 Fidel with Indira Gandhi in New Delhi CHE WITH PM NEHRU Contemplating at the…
Dec 15, 2019
GRATEFUL FOR THE CHANCE TO HELP ANOTHER HUMAN BEING . A STORY FROM CUBA
I was born HOMELESS in that my parents were not in their countries of origin and like my brother Eliyahu ended up in countries that were not in our destiny,…
Dec 15, 2019
THE FROZEN ROSE . A POIGNANT SHORT FILM FROM IRAN
How many countries I have fallen in LOVE in all these years of my travels? AUSTRALIA USA JAMAICA ENGLAND CUBA AND HAVE FELT STRONG EMOTIONS FOR MEXICO ARGENTINA FRANCE BELGIUM…
Dec 15, 2019
PERSONALIZED NUTRITION . MY THOUGHTS AT THIS STAGE
When I began working with the Indigenous people, I noticed that their metabolism of certain foods differed from their fellow countrymen of European origin. At the same time, observations had…