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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…
I have always been fond of reading, the habit of looking through second hand bookstores and bouquinistes have followed me in my travels ..Powell's of Portland.. River Seine.. Tokyo.. Carlton…
I am absolutely in love with my language, once i realized its intricacies, nuances as well as its analytical nature and the abundance of words. There is word for it,…
Tonight is 21 december .. it is the night of Yalda .. It is the longest night, full of darkness and this morning when young women went to their universities…
The watch on the wrist makes a ping noise, BBC notification: The football great PELE has died, aged 82 and the Israelite Hospital Albert Einstein in Sao Paolo, Brasil. Most…
I was still at university when I listened to a jazz pianist playing this melody Autumn Leaves Did not realize at that time, many years later I would be listening…
This is an ancient land and there are people living here whose ancestors had inhabited and fought the invaders who had come from Spain. Cuba was colonized first and the…
I just arrived back in Miami from South East Asia .. the drastic change (food and people ) is softened by the fact that Miami is as tropical spot, one…
I had an intense day in Cochin being with old and new friends both in Ernakulam and Mattancherry. and it was time to leave Cochin to get back to this…
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…