Oct 15, 2013
WE DONT WANT IMMIGRANTS HERE: VOICES FROM UNEXPECTED PLACES
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE OUTCRIES ABOUT IMMIGRATION: THE FEAR OF THE OTHER What is this emotional charge that can raise the heart beat of normal law…
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.
Jun 15, 2013
INDIA AND SOUTH EAST ASIA: THE PALLAVA ORIGINS OF SOUTH EAST ASIAN LANGUAGE SCRIPTS
WHO BROUGHT THE SCRIPT TO SOUTH EAST ASIA: HINDUS OR BUDDHISTS IN OTHER WORDS, WHO IS THE REAL BUMIPUTRA? I was merrily walking along the street in front of the…
May 15, 2013
REMARKABLE MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS UNIVERSE
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE REMARKABLE MEN and WOMEN WHO BLESS YOUR LIFE During the month of April, 2013 I was fortunate to travel to the Indian…
May 15, 2013
NON COMPLIANT HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS: DONT GIVE UP ON YOUR PATIENTS
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE NEVER GIVE UP ON A PATIENT OF YOURS AND IN FACT ON ANOTHER HUMAN BEING FOR THAT MATTER. About ten years ago,…
Mar 15, 2013
CULTURE, NUTRITION, METHANE GAS AND OBESITY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE I have been fortunate to work with American Indians in the USA. Because of their uniqueness, I tried to learn as much…
Jan 15, 2013
LIFESTYLE AND CANCER: TO GAIN RESPECT, YOU GIVE RESPECT
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE LIFESTYLE AND CANCER While the MORTALITY (death) from cancer has declined in the USA (Treatment and Early diagnosis), the incidence (new cases,…
Dec 15, 2012
PEER TO PEER EDUCATION IN DIABETES: MOPOTSYO OF CAMBODIA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE In Praise of Peer to Peer Education Network in Cambodia and its director Maurits van Pelt ( on the third month of…
Dec 15, 2012
THE PREVENTION OF DIABETES, HYPERTENSION AND OBESITY IN INDONESIA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE THE PREVENTION OF DIABETES, HYPERTENSION AND OBESITY IN INDONESIA: THE SENTUL HEALTHY HAPPY LIVING Indonesia shares two major characteristics with its neighbours…
Nov 15, 2012
MALAYSIA IN CUBA, THANK YOU AMBASSADOR JOJIE SAMUEL
MALAYSIA IN CUBA I have been very lucky to meet some excellent people in Malaysia, the best among them being MCY whom I had met serendipitously in 2008. She introduced…
Sep 15, 2012
ATTIRE FOR WORK.. NOTES FROM THE INDIAN COUNTRY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Attire for Work, notes from the Indian Country I am at work. I am a Consultant Physician, specializing in Endocrinology, and work…
Sep 15, 2012
GOOD TO BE A CUBAN TODAY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE To His Excellency Pedro Monzon, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to the Commonwealth of Australia Dear Pedro: It is I, Sudha,…
Jul 15, 2012
ADVICE ON FOOD LABEL READING esp for AMERICAN INDIANS AND ASIANS IN ASIA
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Effect of macronutrient composition of weight loss diets on reduction of the inflammatory marker hsCRP http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6882/12/S1/O5 Published on 12 th June 2012…
Jul 15, 2012
IT IS EASY TO LEARN TO SPEAK ENGLISH POORLY
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE A French academician once put it: English is a language that is relatively EASY to speak POORLY. A language so rich as…
Jul 15, 2012
PITY OR COMPASSION: WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO YOUR HAPPINESS
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE COMPASSION OR PITY: WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO YOUR HAPPINESS I overheard someone say: If only we gave the children of African Migrants an…
Jun 15, 2012
WHY I LIKE TRAVELLING TO/FROM/IN THE USA
Going Home, A good day to Fly.. Websites, newspapers and radio are full of horror stories of air travel within the USA, but they are just talking about the structural…
Jun 15, 2012
A REMARKABLE AUSTRALIAN .. DR ASHIM SINHA
I am at the Annual Meeting of the Endocrine Society which is like a pilgrimage to practising Endocrinologists around the world.. As I entered the hotel where the meeting was…
Jun 15, 2012
Normally I Do Not Participate In
Normally I do not participate in internet Forums or discussions unless something is that close to my heart. When someone had posted in a scientific forum that Sugar is the…
Apr 15, 2012
Poverty is the Obstacle for Prevention of Obesity in the USA and other richer countries
POVERTY IS THE OBSTACLE FOR REDUCTION OF CHILDHOOD OBESITY. IN USA AND OTHER RICHER COUNTRIES I am closely involved with several Indigenous groups in their effort to combat Obesity in…