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.
Limbo vs Liminality These two words have tremendous significance and relevance in the situation we are going through and the state of our societies even before the calamities stepped in…
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…
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…
Certain songs push you over the ridge of nostalgia or to be perfectly correct, Saudade, and a sweet tender feeling comes over, envelopes you like a satin sheet and someone…
If only I could If only I could have you... but I can't help but wait. Time flies, I don't know anymore, you're not there. If only I could have…
My love for Iran has morphed into a passion for the welfare of its people and also an admiration of those Iranians I have met during my travels. Today I…
I have always been interested in languages. I am not sure what language was the one I first heard or understood but study of languages (more cultural anthropological rather than…
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…
The concept of UPFs was born in the early years of this millennium when a Brazilian scientist called Carlos Monteiro noticed a paradox. People appeared to be buying less sugar,…
I am in the USA at the moment and the Corona virus has caused a panic in like many parts of the world. While they claim that they are doing…
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…
France along with Spain and Italy has larger share of Coronavirus in Europe. In France, as of this writing, there are over 5000 cases, with more than 125 deaths and…
I was a young boy when I across this saying in one of the journals that arrived once a month: Life is a long holiday with Intervals of work. I…
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…
when I learned about Kleishas or Structural defects of the minds (in KL in 2009), I thought of the wonderful times I had spent in the most Buddhist country on…
I am a traveller, so it is only natural that I hear various languages in my travels, some common, some uncommon and some rare. The most common languages for me…
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…
Person of Colour I do not understand Who is a person of Colour? A term very popular in the USA Arabs are considered White Persians are considered White Majority of…
