Feb 15, 2016
MICROBIOME TELLS YOU WHAT YOU ARE AND EAT ACCORDINGLY
Microbiome as a word had not been coined, when I became aware of something mysterious in the workings of our food and body. Being a student at that time, my…
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.
Jan 15, 2016
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES OF 2016 WELCOME TO CUBA
Life is not about the regrets about the PAST nor about the anxieties of the FUTURE. As I sit here at the Admirals Club at Heathrow Airport in London, I…
Nov 15, 2015
SPEECH BY FRENCH PRIME MINISTER MORE RELEVANT NOW THAN EVER
I am touched by the solidarity Solidarite shown by people all around the world for France and its people and also for Jewish People at this very difficult time. I…
Oct 15, 2015
ANCIENT WISDOM AND THE NEW SCIENCE
ANCIENT WISDOM AND THE NEW SCIENCE When you are with Indigenous people, you begin to understand intuitively, myth, history, symbolism. Claude Levi-Strauss recognized this 80 years ago when he worked…
Oct 15, 2015
CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE EMERGING WORLD OF ASIA IRAN INDIA MALAYSIA
CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE EMERGING WORLD Personal thoughts about IRAN INDIA MALAYSIA The idea to write this blog came when I was on a long distance flight reading FT of…
Oct 15, 2015
PLANET OF PRE DIABETES: THE CASE OF COLOMBIAN AMAZON
PLANET OF PRE-DIABETES OR HOW I GOT A DISCOUNT AT A PHOTOSHOP IN COLOMBIAN AMAZON One visionary leader in the year 2000 went against the then enthusiastic endorsement of globalization…
Oct 15, 2015
CONFUSION ABOUT CULTURAL IDENTITY: SOY LETICIANO, CASE REPORT FROM lETICIA IN COLOMBIA
I AM NOTHING. A BEGINNING OF CULTURAL CONFUSION AND LACK OF IDENTITY AND HOW IT IMPACTS HEALTH I have just been to Leticia, in Colombian Amazon, my fourth visit in…
Sep 15, 2015
MOTORCYCLE AND OBESITY: THE CHINESE CONTRIBUTION TO COLOMBIAN OBESITY
MOTORCYLES AND OBESITY Or China’s Contribution to the Obesity in Developing Countries, in this case Colombia It was in Leticia, a small delightful town along the Amazon, I first heard…
Sep 15, 2015
HOW TO GET RID OF THE FEAR AND HATRED OF THE OTHER: HERE IS A CHANCE
Refugee Situation in Europe and the chance to cleanse our minds about FEAR of the OTHER Unprecedented numbers of people seeking refuge from war torn nations such as Syria, Iraq…
Sep 15, 2015
CULTURAL IDENTITY
Pablo Neruda had written that if you do not know or have a cultural identity, you are like a boat without an anchor, moving where the wind takes you, without…
Aug 15, 2015
THE SENSATION OF BELONGING EVERYWHERE…WAITERS GREETING YOU IN VARIOUS LANGUAGES
LIFE OF LONGING, LIVED IN THE MOMENT AND WITH SPECIAL AFFECTIONS I like this sensation. What part of the brain is stimulated or excited? AA Flight to BOG. Seat 5H…
Aug 15, 2015
WELCOME HOME TO NATIVE AMERICA: MY HOME IS IN THEIR HEARTS
WELCOME HOME A NATIVE AMERICAN WELCOME One of the greatest gifts in my life has been my choice to work with American Indians. The plans were to finish my post…
Jul 15, 2015
ROMANCE IN THE TIME OF THE MONSOON
Romance in the time of the Monsoon How can I not think of Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, when I am wandering around this lovely small town of Fort Cochin? I…
Jun 15, 2015
A NEW ROUTE TO FREEDOM? DARIEN GAP?
A NEW ROUTE TO FREEDOM? HAVANA TO QUITO BY AIR, TO COLOMBIA BY LAND, ON TO DARIEN GAP OR SEA FROM TURBO, COLOMBIA TO PANAMA, OVERLAND TO MEXICO AND APPLY…
Jun 15, 2015
TRANSACTIONS OF SYMBOLS: A FREQUENT FLIER STORY
TRANSACTIONS OF SYMBOLS: A FREQUENT FLIER STORY I just had a wonderful trip on Etihad Airways, very content, despite it being 15 hours in length. It was good to observe…
Jun 15, 2015
BEST THING ABOUT ABU DHABI IS KERALA!
BEST THING ABOUT ABU DHABI IS KERALA! And the other foreign workers from Asia I had a 12 hour transit in AUH recently, in a strange and imaginative itinerary, coming…
Apr 15, 2015
PLEA FOR UNIVERSALISATION RATHER THAN GLOBALIZATION OF EDUCATION AND TALENT
A PLEA FOR UNIVERSALISATION RATHER THAN GLOBALIZATION OF EDUCATION AND TALENT BBC had an article about Access and Attainment of Education in Developing countries. Every one realizes that access to…
Apr 15, 2015
HAVANA: A MOVEABLE FEAST OF EMOTIONS
At a personal level; Friendships so deep that it is like a tattoo in your heart. Intellectual: discourses with a human face. society at the street level Food Burritos de…