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Person of Colour I do not understand Who is a person of Colour? A term very popular in the USA Arabs are considered White Persians are considered White Majority of…
Iran has faced nothing but crises since November 2019, which included killing of about a thousand people, the killing of Soleimani in Bagdad, downing of the Ukrainian passenger flight with…
Today is NOWRUZ, the first day of the Iranian New Year. A terrible time, a terrible year past for the people of Iran so better to hope and dream of…
I am a traveller, so it is only natural that I hear various languages in my travels, some common, some uncommon and some rare. The most common languages for me…
when I learned about Kleishas or Structural defects of the minds (in KL in 2009), I thought of the wonderful times I had spent in the most Buddhist country on…
We are passing through times that we had never imagined but sitting here at the sunset in Miami, I felt strangely calm. I felt connected to the entire world, as…
I was a young boy when I across this saying in one of the journals that arrived once a month: Life is a long holiday with Intervals of work. I…
France along with Spain and Italy has larger share of Coronavirus in Europe. In France, as of this writing, there are over 5000 cases, with more than 125 deaths and…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE HOW TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE IN THE USA USING BUDDHIST PRINCIPLES. A NOTE TO THE DOCTORS The Four Noble Truths Buddha was…
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE I am writing this from my flat in Vedado, Havana, Cuba while listening to Iranian music. I have been thinking a lot…
I had a trip planned to South East Asia, and anyone who has read the News would admit that this is not the time for frivolous travel to the East.…
ENTOMOLOGY would have been one of the first words in my vocabulary that I could remember as a child. But what was the path to that knowledge? What language did…