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.
WHO IS DYING FROM COVID 19 WHICH COUNTRY ARE YOU IN ? CUBA OR INDONESIA , VIETNAM OR BANGLADESH IN THE USA, WHAT IS YOUR INCOME? WHAT IS YOUR COLOUR?…
Why medical anthropology matters Guest editorial by Cecil Helman Cecil Helman was Professor of Medical Anthropology at Brunel University. He was awarded the 2005 Lucy Mair Medal for Applied Anthropology.…
NEJM or New England Journal of Medicine or when in context of a medical conversation truncated to New England, is the leading medical publishing house in the USA. We are…
FIDEL AND GLOBALIZATION Jefe Comandante Fidel Castro of Cuba was one of the earliest opponent of Rampant Capitalism and Globalization. He was right on the target as we see the…
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…
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…
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.…
If you are used to reading scientific articles especially in Medicine, you can see the commentaries in the popular press distorting the data. At no time has it been true…
Today is NOWRUZ, the first day of the Iranian New Year. A terrible time, a terrible year past for the people of Iran so better to hope and dream of…
France along with Spain and Italy has larger share of Coronavirus in Europe. In France, as of this writing, there are over 5000 cases, with more than 125 deaths and…
I have always been interested in languages. I am not sure what language was the one I first heard or understood but study of languages (more cultural anthropological rather than…
It was a good beginning.. waiting for a flight to arrive from Sharjah at 3 am.. the cool morning on the drive to Bristow's Bungalow in Fort cochin.. This New…
I am not sure when I first heard the phrase, Coincidences do not exist but much sonorous in Spanish, Casualidad no es tan Casual..but one thing for sure. It was…
our beloved SARAH is no more! I received three emails from Cochin today 30.08.2019 informing me that she had passed away. So many images passed through my mind. Jew Town…
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As a traveller I am looking for different experiences in countries that i visit and also looking for technology APPS to make it easier. Malaysia is a country close to…
I am sitting at the Mingalar Sky Lounge at the Mingaladon Rangoon RGN Yangon Myanmar International Airport. For the past three months, I have been on the road and this…
SHABBAT SHALOM FROM RANGOON/YANGON, BURMA/MYANMAR My burmese name is Aung Khant and my father would have called this city where I am now Rangoon and the country with which he…
