Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Rayda Aaishah Joomun

  • Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland

    Rayda JoomunMauritius To Deelshad Reezuana,The most beautiful Alice I met,May you rest in peace in Wonderland… “Thus grew the tale of Wonderland: / Thus slowly, one by one, / Its quaint events hammered out / And now the tale is done, / And home we steer, a merry crew, / Beneath the setting sun”¹ As a child, I got lost…

  • Music and the brain

    Rayda JoomunMauritius Music  brings a smile to our faces. Yet this abstract entity has no conventional defining criteria. Proust acknowledged this: “Music helped me to descend into myself, to discover new things; the variety that I had sought in vain in life, in travel, but for a longing which was nonetheless renewed in me by…