Jun 15, 2020
NOT YET READY TO FLY MY FAVOURITE AIRLINE. QATAR AIRWAYS
I was looking through some of my blogs about the multiple journies on Qatar Airways, my favourite airline. I was feeling nostalgic for the lack of QR in my life…
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May 15, 2020
THE DEATH OF AN INDIAN IN THE AMAZONAS KADDISH FOR ANTONIO AND THE OCAINA ..AS SOON AS I CAN TRAVEL TO LETICIA
I have been thinking of Leticia on the Colombian Amazon, bordering with Tabatinga in Brasil as well as across the stream from Santa Rosa in Peru. I really want to…
May 15, 2020
MELEYKH VISWANATH AN ERUDITE INDIAN JEW AND TAMOUL AND YIDDISCH CONNECTION .
For young translator of sold-out ‘Harry Potter,’ Yiddish is truly his mamaloshen How Arun Viswanath, the 29-year-old scion of a US literary dynasty, translated series opener ‘The Philosopher’s Stone’ into…
May 15, 2020
FREEDOM IS TO HAVE THE TIME TO LIVE THE LIFE YOU WANT TO LIVE: WISDOM OF PEPE MUJICA
If you had grown up in a revolutionary household, you would have been exposed to the classical ones, such as the Bolshevik, the romantic Cuban of 1959, Mao Zedong and…
May 15, 2020
OBESITY IN THE LAND OF THE YOGIS. INDIA HAS THE FATTEST AND THE LEANEST …
I have been lucky to include India in my wanderings around the world, despite the fact that my visits are always short lived, a matter of days and it is…
May 15, 2020
IMMIGRATION, POVERTY AND DEATH … DISAPARITY OF GLOBALIZATION PREDICTED BY FIDEL
There has been a disproportionate number of deaths from this virus, Covid-19, in France in 2020. If you look at the map, you would see a disproportionate number of infections…
May 15, 2020
WHEN YOU FORGET YOUR RITUALS YOU LOOSE A PART OF YOUR ANCIENT CONNECTION TO THE UNIVERSE
When my association with the indigenous people began, I wanted to learn why they are being marginalized, disliked and accused by people who came to their lands centuries later. Who…
May 15, 2020
THE NIGHT OF FULL MOON, TENDER AND RAW EMOTIONS AND SAUDADE
During these days of tranquility and silence, I have been able to experience solitude and emotions in their rawest form. Emotions so raw and tender that tears flow. While cities…
May 15, 2020
SCIENCE IN THE TIME OF SOCIAL ISOLATION
We are in social isolation and the rhythm of life has changed. One of the advantages has been the time that has become available to read Scientific and Anthropological journals.…
Apr 15, 2020
CUBAN MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO ANDORRA. IN ADDITION TO OTHER 13 INTENATIONAL MISSIONS SO FAR TO COMBAT COVID-19
CUBAN MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO ANDORRA This morning I woke up to read the good news that Cuban Medical Brigade is in the tiny Pyrenean country of ANDORRA helping them with…
Apr 15, 2020
FIDEL AND GLOBALIZATION IN THE TIME OF CORONA VIRUS 2020
FIDEL AND GLOBALIZATION Jefe Comandante Fidel Castro of Cuba was one of the earliest opponent of Rampant Capitalism and Globalization. He was right on the target as we see the…
Apr 15, 2020
GOOD BYE COMMENDATORE … HOPE MURAKAMI WINS THE NOBEL PRIZE THIS YEAR ?
A lovely spring day in Miami. The leaves are growing in front of your eyes. Tall trees shadier by the day. On such a day I finished reading Murakami, Haruki's…