Tag: Dr R Neerunjun Gopee

If you want any reform in your society, you have to begin with yourself. How does it matter what the other has done, or not done?

Politicians seem to get away with their lies. Even worse for their country, their lies can take them to victory, possibly because ‘people have a tendency to ditch

First of all, on behalf of my fellow Hindus who messed up the various beaches of the country on the occasion of the Ganga Asnan festival on Monday

For all of us, it would be worth the while to ‘take the best and leave the rest’ from all cultures and transform that into a working paradigm

Now we have the challenge of non-communicable diseases – but we are in a better position to face them. If we don’t, we will have to deal with

As the Indian diaspora has spread across the world, it has carried along many of its customs and cultural practices. Certainly one of the most significant characteristics of

We can all make an effort at our individual level to help according to our capacity, but keeping in mind that this is a thankless task

In 1965 a few of us were fortunate enough to win scholarships awarded by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. Prior to leaving for India, we were invited

Unless humans take a hard, dispassionate look at themselves and their society, the degradation will continue and, as someone said, who knows that the planet may well be

After writing about loving and caring children last week, I thought that I should follow up with an article about loving, caring and responsible parents so as to

The practice of medicine is like a social barometer, giving one not only inklings but also insights into the whole spectrum of human behaviours. Just as we diagnose

There are plenty of life’s tiny delights for all of us. Delights that are tiny miracles in their own way. What more can one ask if one has

‘All too often, I think people confuse the noun “miracle” with the adjective “miraculous”. That which is miraculous need not be a miracle’

There is a ‘supply’ of hundreds of doctors every year, and there is a need to revisit the whole problem (of pre-reg training) in greater depth and width

A teacher friend of mine was fond of the saying that ‘money is a good servant but a bad master’, and remarked that this could be said of