Nov 15, 2019
IRANIAN MUSIC IN THAT CITY OF MOVEABLE FEASTS… LA HABANA, CUBA
Faramaz Aslani and Babak Amini made this video YAR in La Habana. It is nice to see the melodies and rhythms of Iran and Cuba mix..
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Nov 15, 2019
IRAN AND ISRAEL, IN MY OPINION THE BEST TWO PEOPLE OF THE MIDDLE EAST
Israel and Iran are the two most educated people in the Middle East The two countries with millennial history. I look forward to the time when the people of Israel…
Nov 15, 2019
AN ENDOCRINOLOGIST WITHOUT BORDERS WHO MAKES HOUSE CALLS
I am trained as an Endocrinologist and I have never had an office. I make house-calls, but they are not in any particular town or country. Today I was assigned…
Nov 15, 2019
WE LOVE YOU, LA HABANA, THE CITY OF DREAMS AND MEMORIES
and I am ready for you La Habana
Oct 15, 2019
THE YEAR 5780 BEGAN IN COCHIN
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…
Oct 15, 2019
HOW OFTEN DO YOU MEET SOMEONE FROM . BHUTAN?
I like my stopovers in Doha on my way from Asia to either Europe or USA.. I have met people from all over the world, who are temporarily resident in…
Oct 15, 2019
CUBA EN MI CORAZON . LIKE THEY SAY APPLE OF MY EYE
I received this photograph from the Middle East. I was overjoyed to see a geographical impression of our America imposed upon the open eyes.. and behold CUBA is right there…
Oct 15, 2019
LEAVING BRISTOW’S LIGHTHOUSE BUNGALOW IN FORT COCHIN, KERALA, INDIA
I had a delightful 10 day stay at the only hotel facing the Arabian Sea at the historic town of Fort Cochin, near the Indian city of Ernakulum in Kerala,…
Oct 15, 2019
HUMAN BEINGS OF THIS PLANET MY FRIEND TONY
We had become friends when we were still medical students. and shared the same hospital when we were training to become specialist physicians. It was not Medicine that brought us…
Oct 15, 2019
LONGINGS ANORANSA SAUDADE FOR IRAN
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE SAUDADE FOR IRAN Saudade is my favourite Portuguese word, which has been translated into many forms of nostalgia, anoransa en Spanish, longings…
Oct 15, 2019
LONG BEFORE OCTOBER RETURNS… A POEM BY EMILY BRONTE
I have already quoted the poem in another blog.. but today is 29 October and tomorrow 30 October.. Both pleasant days of October Especially this October which has been more…
Oct 15, 2019
CASUALIDAD NO ES TAN CASUAL . COINCIDENCES DO NOT EXIST A STORY FROM FORT COCHIN KERALA
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…