India, Oct. 11 -- Over a cup of evening tea

By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD

My very close friend and fellow Star of Mysore columnist, Ashvini Ranjan, in his most recent post, has written about how he and a small group of friends under the banner of 'Coffee Connections' meet every fortnight, over a cup of coffee, to spend an hour-and- a-half of quality time in each other's company. My wife and I too happen to be members of this motley group of not so like-minded friends.

Yes, you read me right when I said 'not so like-minded friends' because that's exactly what we are but we do spend what can qualify to be called 'quality time' and we do it very happily and therefore very eagerly too.

And, while we are there, we discuss everything under th...