Camino Day 10 Buenos dias los amigos! Today’s stage took us from Beldorado to the last village outside of Burgos, Ages (Pronounced Ajez) (ahh-hace). Today was by far my most enjoyable day on the Camino so far! I know this might come as much of a surprise to you as it has to me, but today […]
Workshop on Human rights at Drosh
One day Seminar on Human and women rights held at Drosh. CHITRAL: A one day seminar on human as well as women rights was held here at Drosh some 45 KM from here a very conservative area of the district. The program was started with the recitation from the Holy Quran. Alhaj Khurshid Ali former […]
Basic Instinct: Under the rain Tree
Book Extract: Under The Rain Tree ISBN: 9788122309812 Author: Vatsala Balachandran Warrier Publisher: Cedar books (www.pustakmahal.com) Basic Instinct It was the day of the rally. The vast sands of the Marina Beach in Chennai were packed with a seething mass of humanity. Overhead, the sun blazed in all its fury, baking the sand red-hot. Dust […]
Reflections on a Declining Transit System and Our Origins
Our problem is with the switch. This is announced through the train’s PA system. We are on a 7:22am train heading eastbound to Manhattan. A woman sitting across from me says something, but I am thinking about the switch. She is wearing a bulky wool coat and holding an earphone between her fingers – […]
Finding Their Soul
River Plate looked dead and buried when Ahumada was sent off and Botafogo scored their second goal. There was nothing going on, as a matter of fact there was more action going on in the stands as they were chanting to see Daniel Passarella go along with club president José María Aguilar. The score at […]
Heard by a Bird
"United we stand; divided we sit."– Tom Petty Funeral For A Phone "I had one phone I really loved," Scott Terger remembers. "It was cream colored, and very reliable. When it died, in 1981, I gave it a funeral. My friends gathered, and we sang ‘Nearer My God to Thee.’ We buried the phone in […]