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
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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.
If they could talk…
She had been lying there in the corner of the cold dark room, surrounded, suffocating with the others for what seemed an age. It had been a long journey, and now that the fatigue had worn off, she tried to move to look around at the others. “Why has there been no movement for so…
Gettysburg -a promise made
The promise made on that day entails a continuous battle to remain fulfilled. The battle to preserve the promise takes place across cities and continents, in different languages, in different forms, but it continues tirelessly.
Autumn Musings
It is that time of the year when one yearns to sit and sip a cup of tea with an old and dear friend. Hold a hand that promises comfort and engagement. Its a time when longings and desires seem to stir deep within and seek fulfillment.
Yellow butterfly
While I relive my childhood, my daughter makes friends with the earth. What wonders a small patch of earth holds, it makes me wonder!
Online Muse
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, a nice movie on television beckons. However, Achilles is calling too, from the lines of the immortal Iliad! Enrolled in a course on ancient Greek heroes being run by Harvard University on the Edx platform, I have in the past year discovered the pleasure of knowledge. MOOCs – Massive Open…
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