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.
I very seldom visit a Shopping Mall, unless I have something specific to buy there. Shopping Mall life has become part of the modern "village" offering a space for people…
In the last one month, I have been in France (Nantes, Quiberon) and in Madrid and then in Cochin and took the longest flight, Singapore to New York (18 hours…
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The Elderly Indian Nurse shuffled her small frame into the consulting room of a health clinic of a traditional group of Indians in the middle of nowhere (as the europeans…
I, like millions of people, including those fighting Russians at war in Ukraine, am heartbroken at the wonton carnage that took place at the town of Uvalde, a short distance…
Ahmad Shamloo's poetry was introduced to me an Iranian friend and I was immediately attracted to it: I saw both Pablo Neruda and Ananda Pramoedya Toer in his words. The…
E very two years, a watchdog group of Environmentalist, gain the data from the US Department of Agriculture and USDA and publish a list of vegetables and fruits which have…
FRENCH PARADOX EXPLAINED: IN ACTION IN NANTES, FRANCE AT RESTAURANT LA LOCA For people who are QUANTITATIVELY minded, they compare numbers to numbers and never about what makes the numbers…
On return to the small town of Quiberon, I realized how fond I have become of this Breton town...
Journey as Metaphor Journey as a Metaphor of Life in the USA and Europe I travelled from Miami Florida USA to Nantes France Airline. American Airlines. Score 2/5 Trains. RER…
I am staying with a French couple at the seaside small town of Quiberon in Brittany. They are bretons. They invited another breton couple they had known for a long…
It was our turn to drop in on the neighbours. A short ride to a nearby village of Kerniscob (village of the Bishop in Breton), it was a happy moment…
MY FIRST EXPERIENCE FLYING SAUDIA: I AM GLAD HE ALI AKBAR IS RUNNING Qatar Airways WITH HIS ASIAN CREW I have been partial to flying Qatar Airways ever since that…
In the early part of the years 2000s, I visited and stayed in the beautiful village of Baracoa in Cuba .. so much so that i was never away more…
COCHIN, especially Fort Cochin has always had a special place in my heart. In the Pre-pandemic days of yore, you would find me often, enjoying the breeze from the Arabian…
This visit to Cochin is turning out to be beyond expectations. Mr Ranjit and Mr Vertivar, both from Pondicherry, the administrative team at TOWER HOUSE hotel in the heart of…
Mr Ranjit the manager of the centuries old heritage hotel in the heart of Fort Cochin, TOWER HOUSE HOTEL, informed me that my room had been upgraded. I had no…
It was the day of excellence during the heavy rain on the part of the dentist who drove through the sheets of rain to attend to my teeth. Tonight would…
