After eighteen years spent in Greece, Mr. Khaleel provided us shelter and warmth, welcoming us from the moment we had peeped in the door. It is these people, along with the likes of Sundar Pichai and Indra Nooyi, who carry the flame of their home country abroad.
Category: Reflections
Let my batteries charge
People seem to have lost their sense of proportion. Interactions are losing quality and an age of ‘impressionists’ has begun. This artificiality of relating to each other through verbosity, ‘forwardosity’ and ‘instantisity’ through a click is upsetting. It has dehumanized and brutalized us.
Lazing in the sun
Did the sun muddle my brain? Or is it important to bring contentment back into the reckoning?
Of Heritage and Identity
….little did I know that while discovering Athens and Greek heritage, my Syria experience would tug at the heartstrings.
What they see
Outside it continued to snow, and millions of light years away, Earth was relegated to ‘wait and watch’.
Remembering Aleppo
I write this memoir of Aleppo not as an obituary to that vivacious city, but as a reminder to its people and all of us. Cities like Aleppo survive, they grow back, rebuild and rebound
End year musings
I guess, at last I have understood why it is important to celebrate the dawn of the New Year. Whatever day, month or time it is – all cultures and parts of the world have their new year demarcated.
Being ordinary
..the reactions ‘ordinary’ gets are anything but regular or commonplace. Being ordinary is perceived as a sign of failure, of not having made it, or still a work in progress, aspiring to the extraordinary.
themindprism - sadhna shanker 