I just came across this, one of my random thoughts, written several years ago. I suppose it got lost in my secure filing in a misplaced folder. But I suppose it still holds true. My niece in California had complained once about not being able to talk to her parents in India, because the phone wasn’t working back home and her parents’ Internet was down too. We have come a long way. Only a few decades ago I could not talk to my folks back home because they did not even own a phone. Telegram, if it came, usually carried bad news. And before arriving in a new land about five decades ago with one suitcase with all my worldly possession and eight dollars in my pocket, I used to travel by train packed with people, inside, outside and on the roof, because that’s all we could afford. The first…
Dropsy faces thrust out of the windows. The buses were jam-packed. Crowds of people walked alongside the inching traffic towards the Howrah Station. The…
I were only nine years old in 1935, born and raised in Harlen, Oklahoma. I ain’t changed much since then. As the sayin’ goes,…
Nowadays love is something that can happen in an instant. Most people don’t think twice before making commitments that they can’t fulfil. So when…
16th September 1692 My last morning. The sunlight seems warmer and brighter today. The sky bluer. The food was bad as usual. Meredith didn’t…
If life is a school, loss is a major part of the curriculum. To begin with, we enter the world suffering from the loss…
Get Out of Our House The Capitol Building of the United States of America Is the people’s house — your house – my house…
“Ouch!” The sudden pain was intense. From the bottom of her left foot, right up to her skull – a vicious attack from the…
”That is the fan tailed fly catcher, Baba,” Rachana exclaimed. “It sings very melodiously. Both the male and the female make nest working together,…
Talladega County, Alabama November 30, 1954 10:31 AM …
