Mar 15, 2008
Cuba and Vietnam
A Letter to my friends in Cuba: Dear Friends: I want to convey to you two images from my first few hours in Vietnam. In Miami, I had bought a…
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Mar 15, 2008
CAMBODIA BECOMING CLOSER TO THE HEART
My name is Sudha, Su in Pali, I am told, signifies that which is good, and in many languages, this name is associated with Food, for which I am very…
Mar 15, 2008
A slice of Cuba in Lille on a cold and rainy Night
Cuba continues to give me gifts wherever I go. One such thing happened to me on this rainy cold night in Lille in the north of France I am a…
Feb 15, 2008
Homenaje a Fidel, El Jefe Comandante
This morning the news arrives, a long awaited news. Fidel will not seek or insist on being elected leader of the incoming Cuban Government. After 50 years, thank God, he…
Feb 15, 2008
Cultural Identity: Tale of a Traveller
Who are you, anyway? IDENTITY AND SEARCH FOR A COMMUNITY A TALE OF A TRAVELLER In the New World, especially the Anglo-Saxon, English speaking conglomeration of USA/CANADA/AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND, the superficial…
Jan 15, 2008
A day of Healing at a Native American Indian Clinic
A Day of Healing at a Clinic for Native Americans Barely thirty, JWE, now sits in front of you, a wasted life, his limbs a metaphor for that waste. Bites…
Jan 15, 2008
Dear Friends It Is Not Very Often That
Dear Friends, It is not very often that you receive an email from NEGARA BRUNEI DARULSALAAM, the place of Peace, a small country situated in BORNEO, right on the Equator……
Jan 15, 2008
Centuries Covered in One Day
ONE DAY, FOUR COUNTRIES From VijayaVarman II to Annadurai, Comrade Anna of Dravida Muneta Kadakam, the pan Dravidian movement based in Madras, India. It is IX Century, an Immigrant South…
Jan 15, 2008
Meilleurs voeux de Merida 1 Jan 2008
It is the first of the year, in the morning at a nice hotel in Merida, Mexico, after a satisfying breakfast. It is a good time to think of dear…
Nov 15, 2007
Where am I?
WHERE AM I? When you order a coffee at one of the elegant salons in this city, the capital of a country that produces no coffee, a tasty morsel of…
Nov 15, 2007
It Is 2 35 Am In Paris 8 35 Pm In Miami
It is 2 35 am in Paris, 8 35 pm in Miami, 7 35 pm in Winnebago and 5 35 pm in Yakima. The night of 21st/22nd October 2007. I…
Sep 15, 2007
Meals to Miami
I have been fortunate enough to travel a little bit, more by design than by choice and over the years, one picks up certain whims and fancies. Travelling by Business…