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.
TODAY is 11th May 2017, I am in Room 3401 of the Executive Floor of Double Tree Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. I had come to Kuala Lumpur to find solace…
I chose the right place to come, to get away from the conflicts and confusions in Brussels and Miami. Here I can be myself, don't have to put up any…
TEN CONSECUTIVE FLIGHTS ON QATAR AIRWAYS Flight ONE Miami to Doha Flying time 13 h 45 minutes 777-300 ER attended by Randa, Cairo, Egypt Helena, Kenya, Cabin Manager I am…
Sitting amidst this silence at the Blue House in the Omaha Indian reservation, given the luxury of time, the elevation of spirit and the caress of solitude, my mind intermittently…
The Heat Index was 40 C ie about 104 F with high humidity that made any stroll in this historic city a challenge. As the sun began dipping down, crowds…
WHAT GOES THROUGH YOUR MIND WHILE EATING A DOSAI AT KLCC IN KUALA LUMPUR Levy-Strauss the respected name in the field of Anthropology, French, Jewish and did his field work…
One sentence from the brasilian movie, Central do Brasil, starring Fernanda Montenegro has stuck in my brain: Tenho saudades de tudo I have longings for every thing. It is quite…
A WONDERFUL WELCOME TO MALAYSIA I had left Miami early in the morning and with connections arrived at the Singapore International (actually Singapore cannot have domestic flights since it is…
Miami has always been a soothing balm to my soul, it was a love at first sight when I arrived in USA to do my post graduate studies. Friends have…
Tourists and The Tour Guide in HAVANA For fifteen days in the month of March, I had friends visiting me, from three different cultural milieus in USA..A Native American couple…
There is not a single child in Cuba who cannot recognize the face of Ernesto CHE Guevara de la Sarna Lynch, the only person, an Argentine, who had been granted…
HOW TO FIND HAPPINESS IN HAVANA AVOID FOREIGNERS AND TOURISTS Unless you are a tourist or an expatriate, one does not ordinarily encounter them, if you are resident in Miami…
THE MAGNANIMOUS MALAYALEES OF FORT COCHIN During my ongoing visits to Fort Cochin, I have met some wonderful friends, and I must say some of them have become good friends.…
It is a Friday evening at 8 30 pm, I am at the Executive Club 4 th floor at the Madrid Barajas Airport Hilton Hotel. It is 230 pm in…
“Wherever you have friends, that’s your country. Wherever you receive love, that’s your home. Whoever gives you love, that’s your parent.” – Tibetan saying. As quoted by the Dalai Lama.…
The portrait above is that of the Great Chief Sitting Bull of the Lakota. I had spent this weekend indoors. While this house is in an isolated part of the…
16 January 2017 It is that time of the year in these Plains. Leaves had already fallen into oblivion and the stark trees pait themselves against the grey canvas of…
I am very happy to see Singapore and Malaysia in this list, I think it is because of their active diplomacy. For example, Malaysia is one of the few countries…
