buddhaintheattic

  The world is divided between them and us. Between the disempowered and the powerful. Between survivors. And oppressors. And what better way to tell a story about dispossession, migration, transition and struggle than to assume not just one voice but ...Read More

_8290

Recently I made a new penpal in America.  Here's a copy of the first letter I posted. Dear Holly Wood, I hope you are doing well. I know you have been awfully busy trying to come up with all sorts of movies, ...Read More

the-namesake

We were walking down the streets of the busiest city this side of the Atlantic. There was paper everywhere – in the windows of old, battered-down bookshops and on the unbalanced tables of the street vendors selling novels in languages ...Read More

11

After a human tragedy, the debri is cleared, remains of lives gathered and mourned and then every year, we revisit in our mind, the Ground Zero of grief and loss and try to make sense of it. Tragedies where innocent ...Read More

911

America has saved the world again. After thousands of civilians served as collateral fodder in the "smoke em out"  Bushfire in  Iraq and Afghanistan post 9/11, the poster boy of global terrorism is gone.  He did not go quietly into the night though and "personally" confronted ...Read More