Feb 15, 2010
To Learn Humility from Unselfish Malayalees …
My friends at TouristLand travel agency tucked into a building near the Ernakulam Junction Railway Station were happy to see me, they knew I was coming and had booked a…
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.
Feb 15, 2010
An Unusually Cold winter in Paris
My body truly is made to live in the tropics! whenever I had to spend long periods of time in places where the cold weather predominated, I was not happy…
Feb 15, 2010
Come Snow or Long Layovers at Airports, Los Indios! here I am
A few weeks away from the Indians (native people of the Americas), I begin to feel their physical absence. Fortunately, I have a reason to go back to see them,…
Jan 15, 2010
The Pleasures of being snow Bound in Nebraska
It took me nearly two days, staying overnight at a CDG hotel, then another overnight at a hotel in Omaha, before i ventured out in the snow storm to the…
Jan 15, 2010
My Wishes for my Friends in 2010 and beyond
I am in Quiberon, Bretagne today. Tomorrow I leave to be with Native American Indians of Nebraska before going to Miami to visit my sister. I have uploaded some pictures…
Jan 15, 2010
How little they know about Cuba in the USA
Zilch. Nada. Pitiable. No wonder they keep on committing blunder after blunder when it comes to their foreign policy.. News item from 4 Jan 2010.. La liste des pays visés…
Jan 15, 2010
An Unusual Tale of Love in the Time of Cyclones
a good friend of mine, Eithwe who is Burmese and currently at Phnom Penh, wanted me to send her one of my notes about my experiences in Burma. I thought…
Jan 15, 2010
Food in the time of a Snow Storm
I was snowbound at the Blue House for a full four days. couldnt leave the house and brave the mountains of snow, driving the car was out of questions, no…
Jan 15, 2010
Cuban Help to Haiti
It is not a known fact that cuba has nearly 400 doctors working in haiti all over the island as a part of the solidarity programme for poor countries. there…
Jan 15, 2010
Another First for Cuba
CIVIL SERVICE COMMON EXAM (CSCE) RESULTS 2009- There were a total of 13 medical doctors who have appeared for the 2009 common exam, a majority of whom had graduated from…
Jan 15, 2010
Cross Cultural Aspects of Diabetes .. in Kuala Lumpur
The School Research Committee cordially invites you to the School Seminar Series, talk by Dr. Sudha Yehuda Shaheb on the topic of Diabetes: An International cross cultural perspective. Date: 27th…
Jan 15, 2010
What a Friendly welcome at AF Lounge at Dubai
In the west, Dubai is not perceived as a place of friendship. I arrived here after what seemed to be a very short flight from Paris. My connecting flight was…
Jan 15, 2010
How Lucky can you get…. Yoga in Kuala Lumpur…
As if magic had descended into our lives, over a matter of few days in September of 2009, friends from Bombay currently living in KL, were able to organize a…
Dec 15, 2009
Travel Plans for 2010
Was it March 1993, when this madness began? this continual rotation of travel..London, MIami, Havana, Baracoa, Paris as hubs of my travel? I do remember that trip: London to Bangkok,…
Dec 15, 2009
From Miami Herald 8 dec 2009
Fraud suspected in Miami-Dade diabetes care An investigation has flagged Miami-Dade as accounting for over half the $1 billion that Medicare paid out nationally for treatment of homebound diabetes patients.…
Dec 15, 2009
Jamaican American Cuban Hospitality.. in Miami
The flight from CDG to MIA is a little tedious, 9 hours and 30 minutes.. the first few hours goes by quickly and then a couple of hours go slowly..…
Dec 15, 2009
I am also a Bumiputra…
Genetic 'map' of Asia's diversity The study indicates that all of Asia was populated through one migration event. Even during a short time period such as one's life time, the…
Dec 15, 2009
MADE IN AMERICA IS IT TIME FOR A BOYCOTT?
Made in America… time for a boycott? No this is not anti American rhetoric coming from South of the Border, but a look into what damage Fruits and Vegetables grown…