Jan 15, 2012
VISA ON ARRIVAL INDIA
VISA ON ARRIVAL INDIA Those of us with an urge to visit this teeming land of Real Fakirs and Fake Yogis, Excellent Food and Mediocre Wannabees imitating the West, full…
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Field notes from the road
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.Archive into inquiry
These field notes are not only memory. They are the ground from which my new field inquiries begin.
The current inquiry follows one trail through the archive: food culture, metabolic health, Indigenous knowledge, and Suriname.
Jan 15, 2012
A Day taking care of American Indians
While driving to work, just five minutes away from this Indian Village, I looked at the thermometer, -10 C, yes minus ten degrees, but wrapped up as I was I…
Oct 15, 2011
We will always have Paris..Indians need you now
I have had a long and fruitful association with some tribes of North American Indians. In the years I have been coming to see them on a regular basis, I…
Sep 15, 2011
SHANAH TOVAH 5772 FROM THE INDIAN COUNTRY
I am waiting for the sun to go down so that I can light the candles and welcome 5772.. My family is not with me on this special night: they…
Sep 15, 2011
Dr Jagdeesh and his Elegant Dental Team in Bangalore INDIA
During many years of my peripatetic wanderings as a Humanitarian Physician, one aspect of self care was often neglected: Dental Care. I shudder to think the state of affairs of…
Sep 15, 2011
The Metaphor of Lotus in India
I have been visiting this part of India, in reality, one house in an area lying outside a major city, once a year, for reasons of umbilical remembrances. The person…
Sep 15, 2011
THE TOLERANCE IN INDIA
After a morning pleasantly attending to Hearing tests and Dental cleansing, the anticipated lunch time arrived. Empire Resto is a very Kerala oriented resto with an ambience of an up…
Aug 15, 2011
UmonHon Indian Annual Harvest Dance
what a great privilege it is for me, a jewish boy from the southern suburbs of Melbourne, now attached by my soul to Cuba, to be witnessing the familial warmth…
May 15, 2011
GRATEFUL LIST ON THIS BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAY AMONG THE AMERICAN INDIANS
It has been a long time since I have had such a sense of balance in my heart and in my life. As my Hocank Sister would say, “without sacrifice,…
Jan 15, 2011
Shekhinah or Love of the Universe: Trip from Paris to the Blue House among the Indians
Air France 0636 Boeing 777-300 Paris Charles de Gaulle international airport to Houston International Airport 10 th January 2011 0701 train from Becon les Bruyers in Paris to Gare San…
Jan 15, 2011
LIMINALITY BETWEEN EUROPE AND THE INDIANS
It is often like this One day you are brimmed with hope and desires And then the next, you realize, how alone in the world you could be, especially you…
Jan 15, 2011
Express your Gratitude, says the American Indian Wisdom
Gratitude List for 2010 As the year 2010 ends, it is good to recollect those people on whose shoulders the great fortune of 2010 came riding to us. Without them,…
Dec 15, 2010
CUBA AND THE INDIANS may 3, 1903
In a New York Times Article published on May 3, 1903, the headlines read: No representative of the Race that greeted Columbus could be found in Cuba. Just think, how…
Oct 15, 2010
Cochini Jewish Influences in Cochin INDIA
Yet another gift from Cochin I had the good luck to make friends with a young Cochini, Thoufeek. He is very talented in Calligraphy and we are fortunate that he…
Jul 15, 2010
False Indians of Cuba .. the so called Tainos
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false IDENTITY It would be a wonderful world, if you could consider each and every person as a human being,…
Jun 15, 2009
A Quiet Sunday afternoon at an Indian Reservation
It is very pleasant, this solitude, being alone in the house, surrounded by silence and all windows open and it is verdant all around, with large trees standing guard. sundays…
May 15, 2009
You Listen Carefully, You will learn..say the Indians
I asked an Indian lady, whom I respect as an Educator among her people. Do you at times feel you are living in two different worlds? I was thinking of…
May 15, 2009
A nice morning at the Native American Indian Clinic
One of the great pleasures of working with Indians is the pleasant encounter one can expect from the patients. Two things was taught me from the beginning: Always make sure…