Mar 15, 2018
A WALK ALONG THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF BRISTOW LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL
Fort Cochin has a special attraction for me, and Bristow Bungalow Hotel facing the Arabian Sea adds to the attraction. Each morning I go for a brisk walk along the…
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, 2018
THE PEDIGREE OF ISRAEL’S FOUNDING FATHERS
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Mar 15, 2018
LAMENTO SOCIALISTA OF THE CUBANS IN CUBA
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Mar 15, 2018
THE GIFT OF FRIENDSHIP THAT KEEPS ON GIVING: MUNCHING OF KUALA LUMPUR AND SADHGURU
Mun Ching Yong has been a friend of mine for over a decade when we met on an Air Asia Flight to Siem Reap from Kuala Lumpur in February 2008.…
Feb 15, 2018
WONDERFUL RELAXING DAY IN FORT COCHIN
There must be something in the air in Cochin for me, like I experienced in Suva, Fiji; Malacca, Malaysia, Zanzibar..but with more substance because Keralites especially the Syrian Christians I…
Feb 15, 2018
HAVANA THE ETERNAL AFFECTIONATE AND CONTINUING FEAST
2017 was an excellent year for travel. My world has geographical variations: American Indians in the USA, good friends in Miami, Family in France/Belgium, Cochin in India and KL in…
Dec 15, 2017
GRATEFUL FOR 2017 WITH ITS WONDERFUL JOURNEYS
I am recuperating nicely from the last trip in the tranquility of my sisters home in Miami, while she is away with her family on Caribbean cruise. This last trip…
Dec 15, 2017
WHY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018, WHY NOT, GRATEFUL FOR AN EVENTFUL 2017
Some one from Cuba: I am supposed to pretend to be happy at this time of the year! Advertisements from Malaysia to Qatar to Miami all inviting you to have…
Dec 15, 2017
ACTIONS PROVE WHO SOMEONE IS, WORDS JUST PROVE WHO THEY WANT TO BE
ONE of the more significant events of 2017 has been the official acknowledgement of Jerusalem as Israel's eternal capital. Most of the world agree, based on historical facts, that Jerusalem…
Dec 15, 2017
QATAR AIRWAYS DOHA TO MIAMI QT 777 ON A BOEING 777-300 ER 28.12.2017
The sun rises early in the desert and I wanted to get to the airport early enough for the long flight from Doha to Miami, a distance of nearly 10…
Dec 15, 2017
IN PRAISE OF SUGAR AND WHY NOT SALT
In Praise of SUGAR No one would be caught writing, In Praise of SALT, then why is an Endocrinologist who is socially committed to prevent Type 2 Diabetes and improve…
Dec 15, 2017
KUALA LUMPUR TO DOHA TO BRUSSELS A TIRING JOURNEY WITH A PLEASANT STOPOVER
I left USA on the 8th and today is 15th and I have covered nearly 2/3 or more of the circumference of the earth. One alarming fact is : in…
Sep 15, 2017
PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION IN QATAR; WHAT A SURPRISE IN A SAFE AND HOSPITABLE COUNTRY
LESSONS FROM QATAR Like many people living in the Western world, my own conceptions of the Oil Rich Gulf states were not very favourable, because of what the Media portrayed…
Sep 15, 2017
SHIMON PERES:always remain Jewish and ensure the Jewish people always remain.
There is a beautiful recounting of the wonderful friendship Shimon Peres had with the French PM who on the last night of his stewardship before being thrown out, made concrete…
Sep 15, 2017
A TED MED RESEARCH SCHOLAR IN DOHA: HERE IS A GOOD TED TALK TO MAKE YOU THINK OF ARAB WOMEN DIFFERENTLY
For the past two years, I have been a TED MED Research Scholar, vetting the speakers to the annual TED MED conference. It is a very satisfying task, and the…
Sep 15, 2017
Man wants one thing, the Nature wants another: A TRIP OF MISHAPS
I have been on the road for a while, in fact travel has become HOME and each stop a pleasant interlude before the next flight leaves for another destination. Usually…
Sep 15, 2017
SOHEIL NAFISI, AHMAD SHAMLOO AND SOME SWEET MEMORIES
I am in Quiberon, Brittany, France where the night has fallen and the rain gone into hiding and the cote sauvage or the wild coast back to its unrelenting rhythm.…
Sep 15, 2017
A VERY BRIEF STOPOVER IN KUALA LUMPUR
It always feels good to arrive in KL, a city I have grown to like since 2008 when I met a dear friend on my flight to Siem Reap! Over…