Merriam-Webster dictionary helped me better understand the following terms, which everyone seems to use interchangeably and without distinction these days: Refugee: one that flees especially: a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution Immigrant: a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence a plant or …
An elegy for peace
India and Pakistan have recently celebrated their respective independence anniversaries. Self-declared pundits took it upon themselves, again, to re-examine the context and outcome of the Partition in 1947. In Northern areas of either country nearly every family is able to relate personal tragedies from this period. “It was”, as Dickens had written much earlier, “…the …
Back to school
The “Back to school!” tagline has been omnipresent for several weeks. Parents or students do not need to be reminded, although this does present another opportunity for retailers to push their products and hype up peer pressure until the flocks succumb. We have come a long way since my own school days when laptops, notepads …
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