A light drizzle started just as I stepped out of the car and started walking to the GO train station yesterday. As I settled in and switched on my iPod, purely by chance the first track that shuffled up on my iPod was a composition in raga Megh by the legendary Ustads Nazakat Ali and Salamat …
A timeless Treehouse
Summertime was special for us kids because friends and family would come visiting after the school term ended in June. I looked forward especially to the arrival of my “cool" cousins from Delhi. (Incidentally, "cool" was an expression used in the 1960s solely in the context of temperature related matters!) While it was hot, …
Canada 150 … landed here!
Presenting to the House of Commons on October 20, 2011, Canada's Minister of Immigration said, “..last year Ipsos Reid did a global poll, from which they estimated that at least two billion people around the world would like to emigrate to Canada right now....” We were in that queue once and having arrived in March 1996, …
We are One
My wife and I recently went for lunch to a favourite café in our neighbourhood. It was relatively quiet and we had a table all to ourselves in the private dining area. A short while later our grandson who is not quite one yet, made a grand appearance riding on his father’s shoulder. Initially a little …
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