Category: Reflections

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.