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.
After writing a blog about Dame Vera Lynn who passed away on 18/6/2020, I thought of other icons of music from other countries that I could think of and also…
We'll meet again Don't know where Don't know when But I know we'll meet again some sunny day Keep smiling through Just like you always do 'Till the blue skies…
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine. Ernesto CHE Guevara de la Sarna Lynch 14.06.1928. Rosario, Argentina. In faraway Australia, I was…
The Covid 19 pandemic has revealed many wrongful aspects of our societies. We tend to concentrate on the disparity of wealth, social order and race relations. One positive aspect that…
It usually begins with a man and occasionally a woman, well dressed and well kempt, wearing surgical scrubs or a white coat with something like. DR…. embroidered on to it.…
BRASIL has always been in my mind’s horizon. I have been lucky to see a small part of this immensely diverse country, from the Argentina border at Foz do Iguassu…
MIGRATION THROUGH LIFE A threat to the Planet as well as at an individual level is/has been present over the past three months. We have become open to the sufferings…
I was looking through some of my blogs about the multiple journies on Qatar Airways, my favourite airline. I was feeling nostalgic for the lack of QR in my life…
I have been thinking of Leticia on the Colombian Amazon, bordering with Tabatinga in Brasil as well as across the stream from Santa Rosa in Peru. I really want to…
For young translator of sold-out ‘Harry Potter,’ Yiddish is truly his mamaloshen How Arun Viswanath, the 29-year-old scion of a US literary dynasty, translated series opener ‘The Philosopher’s Stone’ into…
If you had grown up in a revolutionary household, you would have been exposed to the classical ones, such as the Bolshevik, the romantic Cuban of 1959, Mao Zedong and…
I have been lucky to include India in my wanderings around the world, despite the fact that my visits are always short lived, a matter of days and it is…
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…
During these days of tranquility and silence, I have been able to experience solitude and emotions in their rawest form. Emotions so raw and tender that tears flow. While cities…
We are in social isolation and the rhythm of life has changed. One of the advantages has been the time that has become available to read Scientific and Anthropological journals.…
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…
A lovely spring day in Miami. The leaves are growing in front of your eyes. Tall trees shadier by the day. On such a day I finished reading Murakami, Haruki's…
