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.
THE CULTURE OF FEAR DURING THE TIME OF CORONA Following the pandemic situation around the world, it Is becoming obvious that one of the more misinformed countries is the United…
Magic days amidst rain and thunder in Miami They had announced it earlier, a storm is forming out on the horizon and one could feel more than normal rain and…
There has been a disproportionate number of deaths from this virus, Covid-19, in France in 2020. If you look at the map, you would see a disproportionate number of infections…
When my association with the indigenous people began, I wanted to learn why they are being marginalized, disliked and accused by people who came to their lands centuries later. Who…
MONOCLE is one of my favourite magazines and they send a daily sniff of their diverse interests around the world. It is truly international in that you get an anthropological…
It was a clear morning. I was running a little late, driving from the house where I stay, while I am in the Reservation of the Indians. I was there…
An influential Guru in India always reminds his flock: When you wake up, be grateful that another day is waiting for you. In the Yogic teaching, along with any philosophical…
I remember that day clearly, at a clinic for indigenous people. The doctor to whom I was speaking was a Pakistani, who was working in that remote location, fulfilling requirements…
CELL IS a wonderful medical journal which over the years has given me pleasure with absolutely new knowledge. Researchers around the world are working on so many miracles, so when…
I have lived in four countries where English in various forms is the official language: Australia, England, USA and Jamaica 3 other countries where English is spoken but not the…
It was a nice day in August 2012, when I left the reservation of the UmonHon Indians in the USA and flew from Houston to Doha, connecting to Jakarta. It…
What the world can learn from Kerala about how to fight covid-19 The inside story of how one Indian state is flattening the curve through epic levels of contact tracing…
It is a wonderfully beautiful full moon night in Miami. Why is this night different from all the other nights? I will tell you I was told to go out…
CUBAN MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO ANDORRA This morning I woke up to read the good news that Cuban Medical Brigade is in the tiny Pyrenean country of ANDORRA helping them with…
Limbo vs Liminality These two words have tremendous significance and relevance in the situation we are going through and the state of our societies even before the calamities stepped in…
A FANTASTIC DAY IN SOCIAL ISOLATION ? NO ANXIETY NO FEAR BUT SHEER JOY OF FRIENDS FROM NEAR AND FAR. 30 APRIL 2020 IN MIAMI WHICH IS UNDER LOCKDOWN The…
The world-wide shut down has been observed to various degrees in different parts of the world. Israel was one of the first countries to shut down its borders, impose lockdown.…
There is no visible symbol in the west that has been associated with another entire hemisphere such as the MASK. People stared at Japanese tourists politely had their masks on…
