Reflecting on life's endowments
This is the time of the year when everyone loves getting out to enjoy the weather and lap up large doses of the “sunlight vitamin” D. The race is on, to – spruce up the lawn, de-weed the garden and get rid of the dandelions, add topsoil and fertilize the flower-beds, scrub the deck and …
Continue reading "If ignorance is bliss … I would be the happiest person alive"
A friend, S gifted me a copy of his recently published book. It provides an account of his life in India when he first attempted to come to Canada as a student, the anger he felt when his student visa was denied, moving to the Middle East later where he started to teach, before eventually …
Continue reading "Each of us is unique……just like everyone else!"
Symbols created by historic, religious or cultural perceptions, events or experiences exist in every culture. Traditions and language play an important role in developing, maintaining and over a period of time even transforming cultural symbolism. These days it is not unusual to witness hard-hitting debates about cultural appropriation through the expropriation of “cultural symbols”. The …
Have you ever stood on a busy street corner simply to watch the world go by? Can you recall a time when you consciously indulged in whiling time away, something that a lot of Indians refer to these days, as “time pass”? I recently did just that. A friend from Ottawa and I had planned …
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