Jan 15, 2017
WHICH IS YOUR FAVOURITE COUNTRY. MS.M FROM BUCURESTI AND QATAR AIRWAYS
QUIBERON: LOVE BY THE BRETAGNE SEA SIDE LA VIDA ES UN SUENO. MS. M AND QATAR A traveler would often be asked, which is your favourite place? Which is your…
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, 2017
SUBURBAN SHAMAN WHY DOCTORS SHOULD REGAIN THE HUMAN ASPECT OF MEDICINE FROM THEIR PAPERS AND PODS
Oliver Sacks wrote in the Introduction to this book: Cecil Helman is many things: old-fashioned General (Family) Practitioner, psychiatrist, cultural anthropologist, storyteller, poet and artist-and all this comes together in…
Dec 15, 2016
Siemprecomandante In Australia I Was
#SIEMPRECOMANDANTE In Australia, I was aware of Fidel, Che and the Cuban Revolution. That love and admiration only increased during my stay in London to study Medicine. As luck would…
Dec 15, 2016
AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST TO THE INDIANS : LIVING IS ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
I have just spent ten days with the Omaha, the original inhabitants of the State of Nebraska in the USA. They live in an isolated part of the world, but…
Oct 15, 2016
THE TEDIOUS ITINERARY OF A PHYSICIAN ANTHROPOLOGIST TO THE INDIANS
The tedious itinerary of a Physician Anthropologist Most of you will have absolutely no interest in this itinerary, I am putting this down on paper because I am so confused,…
Sep 15, 2016
MIAMI IS THE MOST CULTURALLY DIVERSE CITY IN LATIN AMERICA
MIAMI THE MOST CULTURALLY DIVERSE CITY IN LATIN AMERICA When he was 16, while hitchhiking in his native Chile, he was given a lift, Donde tu vas? Muchacho? said the…
Aug 15, 2016
AN UNUSUAL AND IMPRESSIVE ENCOUNTER IN COCHIN, KERALA MR.ANSIF ASHRAF AND COCHIN HERALD
AN UNUSUAL AND IMPRESSIVE ENCOUNTER IN COCHIN, KERALA. Mr. Ansif Ashraf and Cochin Herald. At the beginning of this visit, I had been thinking of Cuba and my new role…
Jul 15, 2016
NATIVE AMERICAN WISDOM AND YOGIC PHILOSOPHY: HOW TO LIVE COMFORTABLY EACH DAY WITHOUT CONFLICT
I have been traveling continuously since 1993, when I left the flat in London on a journey to Malaysia, even though I had not lived anywhere permanently since 1986. What…
Jul 15, 2016
LA HABANA, CUBA TO QUIBERON, FRANCE: NOT THE MOST DIRECT ROUTE: IN PICTURES
I am fond of trying circuitous routes to reach my destination, and I will document one such here: From Havana to Quiberon, in France. If you want to go the…
Jun 15, 2016
OMAN: A COUNTRY THAT CAN HELP YOU DEFINE YOURSELF
I am a traveller and very seldom do I get very enthused about arriving in a country (home countries and cities are excepted, such as Cuba, Havana, Miami, Cochin, KL…
May 15, 2016
CUBA THE LAND OF GENUINE AFFECTIONS
Nowhere in the world have I felt affections at their sweetest, at their most innocent, so genuine than in my dearest island, and its capital, San Cristobal de la Habana.…
Mar 15, 2016
A STUDENT IN SOHO
A STUDENT IN SOHO Come to think of it, London has been in my mind longer than any other city in the world, even longer than Miami along with Havana.…
Mar 15, 2016
CUBA IS THE FUTURE FOR LATIN AMERICA AND PERHAPS THE WORLD
CUBA IS THE FUTURE FOR LATIN AMERICA AND PERHAPS THE WORLD On my way out of Cuba, from La Habana, on COPA airlines flight to Panama, I wanted to overcome…
Jan 15, 2016
SWOON OVER MIAMI MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH TROPICAL LANGUOR
SWOON OVER MIAMI: LOVE AFFAIR WITH TROPICAL TORPOR CONTINUES. 2016 Just a few days ago, I said a symbolic good bye to Europe. It is symbolic rather than pedantic, as…
Dec 15, 2015
CUBAN DEFECTORS VERSUS CUBAN BENEFACTORS: WHY THE AMERICANS FASCINATED WITH THE DEFECTORS
The diplomatic relationship between Cuba and USA are getting better by the day and the majority of the Cubans are happy with this outcome. This thaw also has created a…
Dec 15, 2015
CUBA AND AMERICA: ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY 17 DECEMBER 2015
The greatest victory of the accord of 17 dec 2014 between Obama and Castro, USA and Cuba is that Americans have flocked to the country in their thousands and seen…
Sep 15, 2015
FRIENDSHIP OVER TIME AND DISTANCE
FRIENDSHIP OVER TIME AND DISTANCE While I was a post graduate student at Jackson Memorial Hospital of the University of Miami, the southern cone of the Americas was always within…
Aug 15, 2015
THE EXHILARATION AT FERNANDO BOTERO MUSEUM IN CANDELARIA
THE EXHILARATION AT FERNANDO BOTERO MUSEUM IN CANDELARIA, BOGOTA… WHICH PART OF OUR BRAIN DOES GET STIMULATED? Bogota has that vague familiarity as one drives through, the ochre colours of…