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SONATA WITH SOME PINE TREES BY PABLO NERUDA PABLO NERUDA: Sonata with Some Pine Trees In the half-sun of long days let us draw our tired bones together let us…
An elderly gentleman, kind and soft spoken with a son in Sydney who is an accountant took me from the airport to the hotel Double Tree by Hilton in Kuala…
For a western mind, these sonorous names roll off like dew to a pasture Shalinda, Rosana, Ashikin, Jieha, Mustaqim, Zarina, Odelia Najwa, Ameen but these are the names of some…
One of the more delightful aspects of traveling is the chance to get to know the people who inhabit in their countries and not in the context of a commercial…
An alarm was raised about a possible Hurricane approaching Cuba, so I decided to leave for Miami. There I was sitting at the noisy International Departure terminal of Jose Marti…
I was eager to light the candles tonight, as the sun sunk over a gorgeous horizon lit by the candle that is the Sun being passed over to the other…
The morning was still young, a text message arrives from Kuala Lumpur, do you have time to talk? it said It was KO, the former Malaysian ambassador to Cuba. We…
THANKS TO MY FRIEND DR. BIJAYA FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY Indigenous peoples are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment .…
After writing the title, I realized that I had used the word OTHER to describe the 99.8% of the world's population who are not JEWISH. Usually we are the perpetual…
Many years ago, the astute physician of south D akota who was also my friend, Dr Jim K, came to visit me in MIami and he made an observation about…
The Elderly Indian Nurse shuffled her small frame into the consulting room of a health clinic of a traditional group of Indians in the middle of nowhere (as the europeans…
After saying Good bye to the pleasant manager of the Tower House Hotel in Fort Cochin, it was time to go to Ernakulum. Mr Rajesh Rajan, manager of the Travancore…