May 15, 2018
ONE FREQUENT FLIER AND HIS LOUNGES
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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.
May 15, 2018
LOVE YOUR LIFE AND LET LIFE LOVE YOU
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May 15, 2018
A JEW IN QATAR AND OTHER STORIES
A JEW IN QATAR AND OTHER STORIES It is sunny outside nary a cloud but haze over the multiple modern buildings that surround this bay in Doha, Qatar. this is…
Apr 15, 2018
DO I TAKE VITAMIN OR NUTRITION SUPPLEMENTS? NO
I am an Endocrinologist, a physician specializing in the Metabolism of the body, about the balance of various hormones is of interest to me. Very early on in my training,…
Apr 15, 2018
CUBANS WANT CAPITALISM AND THE AMERICANS WANT DEMOCRACY: NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET
The pundits on this side of the Gulf pontificate about democracy in the island of Cuba, make grandiose pronouncements (remember, The Final Hour of Castro, a book published in the…
Apr 15, 2018
KRISFLYER BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE IN SINGAPORE CHANGI WHAT A LOVELY AIRPORT
SINGAPORE CHANGI airport consistently wins all awards for being the best Airport in the world, a distinction it holds on to, even after these many years. USA is far behind…
Mar 15, 2018
TRAVEL TO FRANCE THIS SUMMER MAY NOT BE ADVISABLE
French President Emmanuel Macron wanted to make some changes to the labour laws and his efforts are being resisted to the hilt by the labour unions and they have called…
Mar 15, 2018
MEETING A REMARKABLE INDIAN AT MY FAVOURITE HOTEL IN FORT COCHIN :BRISTOW LIGHTHOUSE HOTEL
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Mar 15, 2018
THE JEW FROM SUDAN AND THE HAIRCUT IN MIAMI
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Mar 15, 2018
CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY MEDICINE UND A BEEZL MITZVAH
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Mar 15, 2018
Tumultuous arrival in La Habana
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Feb 15, 2018
THE PASHMINA SELLER OF DOHA : THE STORY OF THE SILK SCARF STOLEN IN BOGOTA
I am sitting watching Doha fading slowly into the desert night, covered in a mist which could be only the nostalgia for the day it is leaving behind. I am…
Feb 15, 2018
THE CUISINE OF MALABARI COCHIN JEWS
The Jewish Community of Cochin, India is dead and has been dying for many years. As it usually happens, nostalgia begins to creep in and recreation efforts are undertaken. There…
Dec 15, 2017
LISTS FOR 2018 TRAVEL AND MUSIC AVOID THE FIRST AND EMBRACE THE SECOND
Towards the end of the calendar year, popular travel magazines and websites begin to predict or adivine the best places to travel for the coming year, predicting that they would…
Dec 15, 2017
MASS CONVERSIONS OF CHRISTIANS INTO JUDAISM : THREE CASE HISTORIES
While there has been historical references of mass conversions to Judaism, they have been extremely rare. All of us are aware of the King of Khuzars/Khazars who converted and his…
Dec 15, 2017
ACTIONS PROVE WHO SOMEONE IS, WORDS JUST PROVE WHO THEY WANT TO BE
ONE of the more significant events of 2017 has been the official acknowledgement of Jerusalem as Israel's eternal capital. Most of the world agree, based on historical facts, that Jerusalem…
Dec 15, 2017
IRAN IN MY HEART : LET US LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE OF IRAN
One of the first countries I became aware as a child for its culture and literature was IRAN/Persia. The fact that my father had spent some time in Abadan may…
Dec 15, 2017
I HAVE NEVER FELT SO HAPPY ARRIVING IN COCHIN FROM BRUSSELS 22.12.2017
The Abu Dhabi airport was covered in a dense fog that delayed the flight to Cochin by 4 hours but I took advantage of this delay with a prolonged sleep…