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RIAD HAMDANI, CASABLANCA: MOROCCAN MINT TEA AT MIDNIGHT 26 December 2016 The flight is about to leave Casablanca for its 6 hours 40 minutes flight to Hamad International Airport in…
“Wherever you have friends, that’s your country. Wherever you receive love, that’s your home. Whoever gives you love, that’s your parent.” – Tibetan saying. As quoted by the Dalai Lama.…
The portrait above is that of the Great Chief Sitting Bull of the Lakota. I had spent this weekend indoors. While this house is in an isolated part of the…
16 January 2017 It is that time of the year in these Plains. Leaves had already fallen into oblivion and the stark trees pait themselves against the grey canvas of…
The mercury has not crossed the zero, outside it is an eery silence, the roads of this hamlet gleam, the ice thick as paste. No humans in sight, no vehicles,…
I have been travelling regularly to Cochins since 2004 and I had chronicled my travels and photographs in the website The Virtualtourist, which was acquired by Trip Advisor and now…
Female vs Male Physicians: Better Outcomes? An early discovery as a Medical Student was that Women made excellent physicians, that I wanted to be looked after by one, when the…
I am reading an interesting book, Where the Earth Ends by John Harrison about his travels in Tierra del Fuego. I am spurred on while reading the book, having been…
#SIEMPRECOMANDANTE In Australia, I was aware of Fidel, Che and the Cuban Revolution. That love and admiration only increased during my stay in London to study Medicine. As luck would…
When they talk about OPPRESSION or MARGINALIZATION the outsiders especially those with conservative point of view in Miami and elsewhere are thinking of the Politics in CUBA. Most people who…
I have just spent ten days with the Omaha, the original inhabitants of the State of Nebraska in the USA. They live in an isolated part of the world, but…
it was raining when I arrived at the most modern of Dental Laboratories in Asia at a town quite a bit away from Fort Cochin, soon a bus discharges the…