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Archive for May, 2011

Write Responsibly

Posted in words, writer's life, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 25, 2011 | 14 Comments »

Posted originally on March 24, 2010. In times like these men should utter nothing for which they would not be willingly responsible through time and in eternity.                                                                        -  Abraham Lincoln I have at least a hundred and ten places in the world, big and small, I’d love to visit one day. They are anywhere [...]

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Travelogue: The Last Stop

Posted in travel, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 11, 2011 | 19 Comments »

The southern tip of India is a peninsula, and the whole east side of Andhra Pradesh (which is on the south-east slice of India) is a coast, overlooking the Bay of Bengal. I’d left Hyderabad – a completely landlocked city – and clicketty-clacked over in a train to my grandparents’ town, which is a little over 10 [...]

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Acceptance and Tolerance

Posted in words, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on May 4, 2011 | 15 Comments »

The latest developments around the world have brought to my mind the words of one of India’s foremost philosophers, Swami Vivekananda.   I present to you an excerpt from the landmark speech Vivekananda had given on September 11, 1893 at the Parliament of World Religions in Chicago. (Notice the date? Yes! Coincidence? I don’t know…) [...]

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