Tag: Dr R Neerunjun Gopee

Both science and technology are neutral, the perverse effect is of our making

As Mauritius Times completes its 60th year of existence today, I feel very happy to have been associated with it for nearly 25 of those 60 years. I

A tip given about ‘How to live a better life’ amongst others that I read about set me aback a little. It was headed ‘Stop watching TV’ and

In July/August 1979 I came back from the UK to spend a couple of weeks at home. There, even in summers – then – the temperatures were on

Empowerment with Dignity Through Mobility I had the blues ’cos I had no shoes Until I went into the street And saw someone Who had no legs… (Anon)

I may or may not have gone to wish him goodbye before I left for my medical studies in August 1965. Many facts of no likely evolutionary significance

Not a day passes without some new finding or study being reported in medical and related literature about the phenomenon of old age. Perhaps this interest is driven

If we only go by the overwhelmingly negative headlines that crowd the media space on a 24/7 basis, we can be forgiven for being pessimistic about the future

The latest issue of the American TIME magazine shows on the cover a picture of a roll of butter with a caption ‘Eat butter,’ below which are the

The Hollywood actress and UN special envoy Angelina Jolie was in London three days ago to open a four-day summit on ending sexual violence during war. The summit

I can still remember the 70-year old lady who I had operated on for a fracture of the hip when I was working at Victoria Hospital in the

With hope against hope, I am willing to accept that perhaps there is more good than bad happening around the world. The puzzle remains, though, that when we

A New Dawn For India

I first tasted Sindhi curry when I was in the UK doing my specialization nearly forty years ago. My late wife’s mamiji (wife of her mother’s brother: mama

A special report in The Economist (March 29-April 4, 2014) about the rise of robots took me back to an article I had written in December 2010 about