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Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Coming to Kuching in Sarawak, Borneo is an anthropologist’s dream. Physical characteristics of the people betray their isolated and historical existence of…
Leaving the Blue House on the Indian Reservation to Omaha Airport then a short flight to Chicago and the United First Lounge United Chicago to Frankfurt. Lufthansa Senator Lounge at…
If it is Monday, It must be…. Where am I going, this day on a flight leaving BLR at 15.55? I will begin with a ditty Sultan of Ternate has…
My friends in Bangalore always joke that I am buying things that is not in great demand locally. But little do they know where these gifts are destined to: The…
VISA ON ARRIVAL INDIA Those of us with an urge to visit this teeming land of Real Fakirs and Fake Yogis, Excellent Food and Mediocre Wannabees imitating the West, full…
Without creating a myth, Asghar Farhadi had an expression in his thought which was more important than the award in his hand. He said to the ones who are unaware…
While driving to work, just five minutes away from this Indian Village, I looked at the thermometer, -10 C, yes minus ten degrees, but wrapped up as I was I…
This was the scene that greeted me as I opened the door of the Blue house. The first snow of the season for me. always reminds me of that distant…
Pediatric Study: 'Healthy' Diet Best for ADHD Kids For those of us interested in the sociocultural aspects of modern diseases, ADHD, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, along with a myriad of unexplained…
In the 1970s, a venerable gentleman, founded a choir to rescue boys from lower income neighbourhood and it had considerable success with many recordings and various tours across the country…
"When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things." -- Frank Fools Crow, LAKOTA If we…
It was billed as an ordinary dinner, after I had lit shabbat candles and thought of the appropriate people. Just six of us.. what you can call a Dinner Party.…