Tag: Dr R Neerunjun Gopee

The other day I went to the newspaper kiosk, and as I was looking at the several dailies on display, the seller there remarked, ‘tous les jours nek

With the advent of the Internet, there is an endless supply of information that we can access every moment and at any time we decide to do so.

Given all the calamities that the world is going through, that no amount of ‘divine’ input into human affairs has so far prevented the non-divine forces from having

The article by Sada Reddi in last week’s issue of this paper, about the development of orthopaedics as a speciality in Mauritus, prompts me to share some bits

‘Life is like coffee’ – author unknown. So begins and ends a mail forwarded by a friend, among the many that keep entering the mailbox. Most are of

‘Breast reconstruction is an aesthetic failure achieved by surgical compromise’ – British journal of Plastic Surgery (1980) Some days ago the American actress Angelina Jolie – yes, she

A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the eating habits of human beings, in which I noted that ‘in a spectrum from the ant to the

In French novelist’s Jules Vernes book published in 1873 we are introduced to Fogg, a very precise man who regularly goes to the Reform Club every evening. At

By Dr R Neerunjun Gopee In Curepipe at least. Call it anti-cyclone or whatever, the fact of the matter is that after a week, I really mean seven days,

Dr R Neerunjun Gopee “The carry-home lesson is that many accidents and incidents are preventable by means and measures that are not necessarily of the rocket science type,

By Dr R Neerunjun Gopee The caption by the side of his photograph in the latest issue of the National Geographic magazine begins as follows: ‘Caruso walks on his

By Dr R Neerunjun Gopee A remark by Indian filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar, namely, ‘If Adam and Eve were Chinese, we would still be in paradise because they would have

By Dr R Neerunjun Gopee There is an interesting anecdotal story that goes as follows: A giant ship’s engine failed. The ship’s owners tried one expert after another, but

The pachadi of Ugadi with six flavours, is meant to symbolise ‘that it is only when one goes through grief or anxiety that one can enjoy the sweetness

Dr R Neerunjun Gopee   The bit of information that Reunion had had 400mm of rain and yet there was not a single death took me back to