Apr 15, 2015
WARM, FRIENDLY, GENEROUS FRIENDS AND SEDER IN MIAMI
Just a few days ago I was in Fort Cochin, was wondering where I would spend the first night of Pesach! No invitation was forthcoming from Portland, Oregon so I…
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Mar 15, 2015
FEW HOURS IN COCHIN.. VERY EXCITING INDEED
I returned to Cochin after an absence of five years, which is very long for me with regard to any country in my world view. I had come primarily to…
Dec 15, 2014
YALDA IN IRAN, ISRAEL LOVES IRAN, STONEHENGE, CARNAC, CHICHEN ITZA, DZIBILCHALTUN ANDהילדה הקטנה שלי
December 21st, 2014, it would be the night of YALDA, celebrated in most of the Persian Speaking Middle East and Central Asia, also spilling into the Indian Subcontinent. But one…
Oct 15, 2014
WHEN EXOTIC BECOMES EXTORTION: INDIAN FOOD IN MIAMI
WHEN EXOTIQUE BECOMES EXTORTION :INDIAN FOOD IN MIAMI Indian Cuisine is an oxymoron, unless of course it is a compilation of numerous cuisines found all over India. Indian cuisine was…
Oct 15, 2014
Eu tenho saudades de tudo
Eu tenho saudades de tudo Today I had an extraordinarily pleasant flight from London to Miami, it was as if, I was all alone and then given attention when necessary,…
Sep 15, 2014
CUBA {NOT}IN THE NEWS: HUMANITARIAN GESTURE TO SIERRA LEONE AND EBOLA CRISIS
CUBA has an unenviable record of helping countries when natural disasters hit them. Every one knows about their efforts after the Earthquake and during the Cholera epidemic in Haiti. A…
Aug 15, 2014
ZHENG HE / CHENG HO STRAITS OF HORMUZ THE TOWN OF HORMUZ
ON A RECENT VISIT TO MALACCA, I WAS HAPPY TO MEET ONCE AGAIN THE INDEFATIGABLE DIRECTOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL ZHENG HE SOCIETY, DR TTS OF SINGAPORE. AS USUAL WE TALKED…
Aug 15, 2014
JEWS OF ALGERIA, CHAABI MUSIC, MUSIQUE ANDALUZ, ARAB AMITIE.. NOW ALL NOSTALGIA
The Story of El Gusto, the Chaabi Music Reunion, is truly one of nostalgia and remembrance of a time that would never ever appear again. When a Jew plays this…
Aug 15, 2014
EBOLA VIRUS INFECTED PATIENTS CURED, SAVED BY EXCELLENT MEDICAL CARE IN THE USA AND ALSO CUTTING RESEARCH FROM SCIENTISTS IN AMERICA
It was a good day to receive this news of a miracle cure of two Ebola Infected American citizens who had been released to the care and love and affection…
Aug 15, 2014
PLEASURE WITHOUT DESIRE
One of my favourite philosophers, Gilles de Leuze, once famously declared: Tell me your desires, I will tell you who you are. In the western minds, who you are, is…
Apr 15, 2014
IRAN IN MALACCA. JADE in Malaysia tinged with Nostalgia
Almost two years to this day. I had arrived at KLIA after a memorable journey, which made this arrival even more memorable. Omaha-Denver-Los Angeles-Honolulu-Guam-Hong Kong with a long layover-Kuala Lumpur,…
Apr 15, 2014
NATURE VS NURTURE WHEN IT COMES TO HUMANITARIAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
Nature vs Nurture Science vs Entrepreneurial While watching a short video about some of the eye boggling science that is coming out of Israel, I began thinking about Nature vs…