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.
Filipino Chinese Chef, Peruvian Student from Lima, LAN Pan Asian Restaurant It is time to celebrate, dear friends! What ingredients do we need? Good News! Of course, lately we have…
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…
Made in America… time for a boycott? No this is not anti American rhetoric coming from South of the Border, but a look into what damage Fruits and Vegetables grown…
Was it March 1993, when this madness began? this continual rotation of travel..London, MIami, Havana, Baracoa, Paris as hubs of my travel? I do remember that trip: London to Bangkok,…
it has been a while since I had drank coca-cola ( I must have been healthy?) btu this morning at Charles de Gaulle Airport- I had, not one, but three…
Whenever you come across a situation of Ill Health of a Society, such as Haiti, one can conclude Poverty as a root cause, or at least one of the major…
WELCOME TO THE USA Global Entry Programme As I have to visit USA on a fairly regular basis,( 13 visits this year to Miami, our Other Cuba) I applied for…
I was extraordinarily lucky to have had my medical education divided between three countries: London in England, a medical model still paying attention to the great masters of the past…
Day 1 of a trip to Asia In fact it was more than 24 hours, on this first day of the trip, to get to KL from Paris. I left…
Medical Anthropology is not about medicine, but about Society. It is a tool in which we can divert the gaze of the academics who focus on rituals and symbolism to…
Medical Anthropology is not about medicine, but about Society. It is a tool in which we can divert the gaze of the academics who focus on rituals and symbolism to…
Meet the Top 100 The May/June issue of Foreign Policy, a global magazine about Politics, Economics and Ideas, named its list of top 100 public intellectuals. I was drawn initially…
I firmly believe that things are meant to happen; you must stop expecting them to happen and of course, accept it with grace when it does happen. Casualidad no es…
My name is Sudha, Su in Pali, I am told, signifies that which is good, and in many languages, this name is associated with Food, for which I am very…
Written in conjunction with and presented at International meeting of SOLAR in Rio de Janeiro Dr Sudha Yehuda Kovesh S and Dr Ivette Garcia (currently a Cuban diplomat assigned to…
A Day of Healing at a Clinic for Native Americans Barely thirty, JWE, now sits in front of you, a wasted life, his limbs a metaphor for that waste. Bites…
Dear Friends, It is not very often that you receive an email from NEGARA BRUNEI DARULSALAAM, the place of Peace, a small country situated in BORNEO, right on the Equator……
ONE DAY, FOUR COUNTRIES From VijayaVarman II to Annadurai, Comrade Anna of Dravida Muneta Kadakam, the pan Dravidian movement based in Madras, India. It is IX Century, an Immigrant South…
