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.
THANKS TO MY FRIEND DR. BIJAYA FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY Indigenous peoples are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment .…
The incredible tranquility of my home in Havana elevated me to a level of consciousness that i truly felt . Adding to those embers was my love for Iran.. directly…
This is one of the best known quotes about Paris in the English Language and the idea of a moveable feast entered the language. Currently the moveable feast in my…
I have a certain fascination with the language that I call my own, even though millions of people speak it, with various adeptness around the world. Some wit had remarked…
In Miami, it is not just the cars and other vehicles that clutter the air with the noise but more odious is the noise created by the thinking of the…
Many years ago, the astute physician of south D akota who was also my friend, Dr Jim K, came to visit me in MIami and he made an observation about…
During my short stay in Paramaribo, i had many conversations with this Jawanese Surinamese lady who directed me to deGadri resto by the river for surinamese food and also to…
Surinamese are very friendly, and the receptionists at the Hotel Palacio in Paramaribo were no exception. I have been looking forward to escaping from the narrow-mindedness of the discourse in…
As a child I was very keen on Geography and knew about the three GUYANAs.. British, Dutch and the French. The French Guyanne is still part of France and the…
One of the pleasures of being back in Miami is to enjoy this vista each morning, while sipping on a good cuban coffee.This view is from the house of Youssef,…
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…
I very seldom visit a Shopping Mall, unless I have something specific to buy there. Shopping Mall life has become part of the modern "village" offering a space for people…
PS PLEASE DO NOT MAKE UP YOUR MIND ABOUT CUBANS LIVING IN THE ISLAND BY YOUR EXPERIENCE WITH CUBAN EXPATRIATES IN MIAMI. Cubans (I always mean the Cubans who live…
In France intellectuals have a special place in the society. In my early days living there I was amazed that talk shows featured intellectuals inviting people into their homes for…
One of the advantages of living in more than one country, is that you feel present and congruous with the pulse of the country and in my case with the…
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…
It was the day of excellence during the heavy rain on the part of the dentist who drove through the sheets of rain to attend to my teeth. Tonight would…
This visit to Cochin is turning out to be beyond expectations. Mr Ranjit and Mr Vertivar, both from Pondicherry, the administrative team at TOWER HOUSE hotel in the heart of…
