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.
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…
DS SHE HAS JOURNALISM IN HER BLOOD The sweet part of my short visit to Cochin in August 2016 was the reunion with DS, who is in charge of Corporate…
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…
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…
IF YOU ARE NOT A FOODIE, YOU MIGHT FIND THE PHOTOS OF THE FOOD ITEMS A BIT TOO EXTRAVAGANT, PERHAPS YOU SHOULD SKIP THIS BLOG On 9th June I took…
I am at the Double Tree Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, at the Lounge at 34th floor, looking at the setting sun colouring the city being slowly lit up underneath me.…
All the Little Pleasures of Life ! I had not expected to receive such a warm welcome at the Executive Lounge at Double Tree Hilton Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. The…
I have had a long association with the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska. In fact when I go there on my monthly visits, I live in a house within the reservation.…
Arrival in Fort Cochin For a country that prides itself in IT, the public offering of IT is very poor, much poorer than a country like Cambodia. An international airport…
ONE REFUGEE TO ANOTHER... AN EYE OPENER IN HISTORY OR HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF SYKES-PICOT MAP I am a Jew, and firmly rooted in the Middle East, not only the history…
MEDICAL WISDOM FROM CUBA: AN EGALITARIAN APPROACH TO WHAT IS GOOD FOR SOCIETY The other day I was having lunch with the Senior Professor of Endocrinology and a Consultant Psychologist…
A LONELY JEW IN LONDON My first long term visit out of Australia, as a Jew and a teenager was to Sweden. Coming from a traditional Jewish community in Melbourne,…
UNEXPECTED PLEASURES IN MALACCA: LE YIN AND AMIN I have been a frequent visitor to Malacca, the historic town in the peninsular Malaysia which has a parallel history to Fort…
AN EXTRAORDINARY FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: CATHAY PACIFIC NEW YORK TO HONG KONG TO KUALA LUMPUR I am a frequent flier on many airlines so for me to make such a statement,…
From a personal point of view, these past few days have not been the best of days. I had a most wonderful time in the past few weeks: American Indians,…
UNSUNG HEROES OF QATAR AIRWAYS DOHA BUSINESS CLASS LOUNGE When one talks about service aboard a flight on long haul journeys, one is not talking about USA based airlines or…
I am unashamedly fond of the little township of Fort Cochin but certainly not for its food. The quality of food in the tourist parts of Fort Cochin is just…
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…
