Dec 15, 2008
MingalarBar in Malaysia
Photo: Soleiman of Maulana Plaza at Seri Kembangan, Malaysia Mingalabar in Malaysia This has been a wonderful day in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur to be specific. Just another day in Paradise,…
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May 15, 2008
Meet the Top 100
Meet the Top 100 The May/June issue of Foreign Policy, a global magazine about Politics, Economics and Ideas, named its list of top 100 public intellectuals. I was drawn initially…
Apr 15, 2008
Miami to Houston on a Continental Airlines Flight
I firmly believe that things are meant to happen; you must stop expecting them to happen and of course, accept it with grace when it does happen. Casualidad no es…
Mar 15, 2008
A slice of Cuba in Lille on a cold and rainy Night
Cuba continues to give me gifts wherever I go. One such thing happened to me on this rainy cold night in Lille in the north of France I am a…
Mar 15, 2008
CAMBODIA BECOMING CLOSER TO THE HEART
My name is Sudah, Su in Pali, I am told, signifies that which is good, and in many languages, this name is associated with Food, for which I am very…
Mar 15, 2008
Cuba and Vietnam
A Letter to my friends in Cuba: Dear Friends: I want to convey to you two images from my first few hours in Vietnam. In Miami, I had bought a…
Mar 15, 2008
Memories of Right Whales
NOTES FROM ITAPIRUBA, ESTADO DA SANTA CATARINA, BRASIL. FIRST IN ENGLISH, DEPOIS EM PORTUGUES Writing this in the cosmopolitan city of Sao Paulo, the third biggest city in the planet,…
Mar 15, 2008
Poem For New Morning Of Lovewritten In
Poem for a New Morning of Love…written in Yangon in Myanmar… It is time to go, dear friends Someone or other is waiting.. Where was that? Is there a table…
Feb 15, 2008
Cultural Identity: Tale of a Traveller
Who are you, anyway? IDENTITY AND SEARCH FOR A COMMUNITY A TALE OF A TRAVELLER In the New World, especially the Anglo-Saxon, English speaking conglomeration of USA/CANADA/AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND, the superficial…
Feb 15, 2008
Homenaje a Fidel, El Jefe Comandante
This morning the news arrives, a long awaited news. Fidel will not seek or insist on being elected leader of the incoming Cuban Government. After 50 years, thank God, he…
Jan 15, 2008
Meilleurs voeux de Merida 1 Jan 2008
It is the first of the year, in the morning at a nice hotel in Merida, Mexico, after a satisfying breakfast. It is a good time to think of dear…
Jan 15, 2008
Malaysian Dilemma Explained by someone who loves Malaysia
The purpose of the trip to Asia in December had been, Food,Friends and Far East. I had gone there especially to see and spend time with Nga in HoChiMinh, Ko…
Jan 15, 2008
Centuries Covered in One Day
ONE DAY, FOUR COUNTRIES From VijayaVarman II to Annadurai, Comrade Anna of Dravida Muneta Kadakam, the pan Dravidian movement based in Madras, India. It is IX Century, an Immigrant South…
Jan 15, 2008
Dear Friends It Is Not Very Often That
Dear Friends, It is not very often that you receive an email from NEGARA BRUNEI DARULSALAAM, the place of Peace, a small country situated in BORNEO, right on the Equator……
Jan 15, 2008
A day of Healing at a Native American Indian Clinic
A Day of Healing at a Clinic for Native Americans Barely thirty, JWE, now sits in front of you, a wasted life, his limbs a metaphor for that waste. Bites…
Jan 15, 2008
The False TAINOS of Baracoa and CUBA
Written in conjunction with and presented at International meeting of SOLAR in Rio de Janeiro Dr Sudah Yehuda Kovesh S and Dr Ivette Garcia (currently a Cuban diplomat assigned to…