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.
COCHIN, especially Fort Cochin has always had a special place in my heart. In the Pre-pandemic days of yore, you would find me often, enjoying the breeze from the Arabian…
Journey as Metaphor Journey as a Metaphor of Life in the USA and Europe I travelled from Miami Florida USA to Nantes France Airline. American Airlines. Score 2/5 Trains. RER…
FRENCH PARADOX EXPLAINED: IN ACTION IN NANTES, FRANCE AT RESTAURANT LA LOCA For people who are QUANTITATIVELY minded, they compare numbers to numbers and never about what makes the numbers…
Ahmad Shamloo's poetry was introduced to me an Iranian friend and I was immediately attracted to it: I saw both Pablo Neruda and Ananda Pramoedya Toer in his words. The…
It has been an extraordinary day.. My friends in Iran prepared and started celebrating NOWRUZ the Persian New year, remembering a time long when Zoroastrianism was the creed of the…
The sun was about to set on this Friday evening in Miami. What is like for people of Kyiv, Kharkhiv and Lviv and throughout the length and breadth of Ukraine?…
When it is 10 pm in Miami, it is 6 30 am in Tehran and the city is waking up A friend of mine from there joins me in 30…
If you wish to lead an unconventional life, you have to plan to undertake unconventional path to your life including your family life, your career and your places of residence,…
Today has been an unusually calm and content day without any form of conflict . One of those delightful days The responsible people were a friend visiting from Cayman Islands,…
Things happen for a reason, say the American Indians. I find myself in La Habana, amidst the chaos of thousands of cuban emigrants arriving from Miami with their demeanour vastly…
After 18 months of corporal punishment in Miami during Covid 19 isolation (gaining 4 kg in weight and a bloated belly and intellectual decay), I decided to travel despite restrictions.…
It has been a while. My magical life in Melbourne, Australia was in full swing. I heard this song Ne me quitte pas after listening to it a hundred times…
I had a ticket on British Airways to London and then on Iberia to Madrid and Marrakech. I was looking forward to returning to Riad 58 Blue and my new…
It is the Full Moon. My good friend, JK, took this in Imperial, Nebraska. 18 January 2022 First full moon of 2022. The above photo of Full moon over Miami…
I am happy to have come to the USA for my post graduate studies in Endocrinology (excellent clinical education at Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami) but even…
The Sun was setting in Miami. I had been back just over 24 hours ago. Yesterday I left that city of Light and Love. No city in North America comes…
I was in Malaga in Andalucia and my destination was Quiberon, Bretagne. I always liked Nantes as a place to change from an intra European flight to the train that…
I am writing this for my family in Miami and also Cayman Islands as well as other travelers including my colleagues who are traveling during this holiday season. People should…
