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 day of departure from Havana is always sad, I had the feeling that this time around I will miss my Little Island more than the usual for various reasons.…
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…
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…
MINDFULNESS VS MINDLESSNESS IN TOURISM Two tourist spots and two different forms of extraction of your dollar. At the end of the day we are just dollar signs to the…
THE SCENERY CHANGES, WE REMAIN THE SAME In Bruxelles, in the European Quartier, I used to pass by a Tabac when I walked along with LBGS to her Garderie. On…
The Exuberant Uber Driver of Kuala Lumpur My two North American Indian friends were going home after a very enjoyable study/vacation/knowledge trip of 2 weeks. I had accompanied them on…
KERALA IN SALALAH ANCIENT CONNECTIONS AND MODERN HOPES I had rented a car, in fact it is the best way to get acquainted with Salalah and Dhofar. Driving along the…
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…
An adolescent love letter to Malaysia Malaysia began appearing on the horizon on my travels since 2008... The year I met my best friend in Asia on a flight to…
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.…
Cochin is exotic because it is chaotic, has no order and no explanation. One finds in the flow and if you are lucky you make friends like I have done.…
Fo-r an airport of this size, BIA has four different Lounges for passengers. I now have visited all the four and enjoyed the facilities Serendib is possibly the best if…
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…
THE ETIHAD LOUNGE AT JFK, ONE OF THE BEST YOU WILL SEE IN THE USA BEING FAITHFUL TO MY GENES: TABBOULEH, BABA GANOUSH, CHICKEN TIKKA MASALA AND RICE ARABIC ICE…
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…
After a long flight to Bogota from Madrid via Cali, I had hoped to rest well at Hilton Bogota, where they had upgraded me to a spacious room on arrival…
