Charles Dickens was prescient, when opening his Tale of Two Cities in 1859 he wrote: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of …
Camel’s nose
Some of us might recall the tales we heard or stories we read as kids. In India, these generally originated from grandmothers, neighborhood aunts, Aesop’s Fables, Jatak Khatha or later, Amar Chitra Katha stories. A common theme that featured in all these originations was the Moral of The Story. I can still visualize our Hindi …
Homing in
Homing pigeons must provide a cue to us immigrants. These birds have an innate ability to find their way back home over long distances. Or, perhaps just like salmon – that, having migrated to the ocean, travel back to the riverbed where they were spawned – we immigrants retain a latent urge (in Hindi we …
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