Jan 15, 2011
Express your Gratitude, says the American Indian Wisdom
Gratitude List for 2010 As the year 2010 ends, it is good to recollect those people on whose shoulders the great fortune of 2010 came riding to us. Without them,…
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.
Dec 15, 2010
Getting Older and Being Happy.. How are they related
The U-bend of life from the Economist Why, beyond middle age, people get happier as they get older Age and happiness Dec 16th 2010 | from PRINT EDITION ASK people…
Nov 15, 2010
To Live Longer, Eat Less: Less Quantity and More Quality
When asked to examine a Monk in the Upper Irrawady Region, I had to use all my prowess as an Anthropologist. What does a Monk Eat? When are his eating…
Nov 15, 2010
Malaysia in Cuba.. Malaysians need to polish their Image abroad
Malaysia in Cuba I have had no desire to get in touch with Malaysian Embassy in the past but with my increasing connection to Malaysia, on a whim, I decided…
Nov 15, 2010
MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL OBSERVATION OF WESTERN MEDICINE PRACTICED IN FIVE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Western Medicine is practiced without empathy and understanding of the person, in a totally un-holistic way in all the five countries mentioned. The Cardiologist in Miami was friendly, the Cardiologist…
Oct 15, 2010
The Deep Legacy of Khmer in Mekong Delta. Soc Trang Province
When I visited Cambodia regularly in the past, I was vaguely aware of a Khmer population in the delta region of South Vietnam. I had expected pockets of small communities…
Sep 15, 2010
Thinking about a Quote by Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell: “there is far too much work done in the world...immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous.” These are ruminations, pardon the pun, of a…
Sep 15, 2010
I Am Not Responsible I Am Around People
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE I am around people who are self made in the business world, junior executives, partners, lawyers, accountant chiefs, and absolutely dislike their collective aim that bottom…
Aug 15, 2010
C’est la Vie….
Does this man deserve a holiday? People, who have known me for a while, still are not sure what is that I do, which takes me to exotic places on…
Aug 15, 2010
Where is Dr Aung Khant?
After this wonderful trip to KL and Myanmar, and a nice flight back to Paris from KL, I want to put down the days of love and affection and fearlessness…
Jul 15, 2010
A day of Travel Part 2 July 8, 2010 ZRH-MIA
A Day of Travel Part 2 July 8, 2010 ZRH TO MIA 12 55 pm Seat 4 D A glass of champagne 7852 km to Miami (4879 miles). Incredible when…
Jul 15, 2010
LX 64 ZRH MIA AI 340-300 8 july 2010
Today waking up to a gorgeous morning here in Paris, I was overcome with the sweet sensation of SAUDADE.. That same sensation that I had known, even since I became…
May 15, 2010
One Week of ETHNIC eating in Paris
It is a pleasure to contemplate about eating in Paris. The choices are so great that one has the pleasure of thinking about it and choosing. There is no anxiety…
Feb 15, 2010
Back Home in Paris.. but with the Glow of Asia
It is nice to be able to cross Continents and World Views in a matter of Hours.. at Midnight one day, you are at the Oberoi Lounge at the Bangalore…
Feb 15, 2010
Air Asia to Cochin.. From Kuala Lumpur
arriving at the LCCT at KL International Airport with a heavy heart, always sad to leave this country which has become dearer to my heart. Sad good byes remind us…
Jan 15, 2010
The Pleasures of being snow Bound in Nebraska
It took me nearly two days, staying overnight at a CDG hotel, then another overnight at a hotel in Omaha, before i ventured out in the snow storm to the…
Jan 15, 2010
Cross Cultural Aspects of Diabetes .. in Kuala Lumpur
The School Research Committee cordially invites you to the School Seminar Series, talk by Dr. Sudha Yehuda Shaheb on the topic of Diabetes: An International cross cultural perspective. Date: 27th…
Nov 15, 2009
Why I am not a member of Face Book or other Social Networks
Electronic Communications and social Networking Internet has been a great blessing for travelers. Since 2002, my world has rotated around Cuba, Miami, Los Indios, Paris 2006, KL 2008, Vietnam, Cambodia…