Jam & packed
For WE Buchanan and his Shimla-born son Colin, the quality of a town was defined by the quality of its public realm — a maxim ignored in Himachal RAAJA BHASIN As a typecast Parisian, with both flourish and conceit in his pocket, the gentleman’s opening statement was: “Don’t you know that man discovered fire and […]
“Questions, Descriptions .. Answers and the Luminous Green Letters on white paperT R A L E E ( please..)- we pilgrim hitchhikers..”
Who are you Why are you here Where have you come from Where to …you go .. When did you smile When did the rain fade away.. When did it return with a hush When did the grass turn green lush When too did the 🍀 🍀 turn green three n’four leaf…? Questions .. We stood on […]
The Dire State of Our Universities / by Vijay Stokes
Vijay Kumar Stokes, BSc Engg (HONS) Mech (BHU, 1961) and PhD (Princeton, 1963), taught at IIT Kanpur (1964-1978), where he headed the Mechanical Engineering Department (1974-1977) and was the Convener of the Nuclear Engineering and Technology Program (1977-1978). He then worked at the GE Corporate R&D (1978-2002). Besides setting up a world-class, science-based apple orchard at his […]
The 2022 Winter Christmas Letter – someday we will return..
..loads of snow over Swedenfrozen lakes in January..stubbornly determined long walks over ice I do trying to average around 13000 steps ..10km stubbornly determinedthrough pines those branches stooping low with the burden of snow ..stunning live beauty far far better than a photoshop postcardlooking up at the sky i see migratory birds in perfect line […]
Walking past those who’ve gone before
with such a hot summer here at 60 degrees north past mid way into the Summer of ‘22 the lakes are glistening, the river flowing with its usual flood, slack and ebb, the roads dry and hoovered daily whistling wind and gentle leaves, I could neither feel nor smell any advance of thunder lightning nor […]
Global Warming “Garm Dharti” / thoughts by [regular contributor of writings] : Vivek Bhasin
Global Warming – The New Yorker Dear Ma’am / Sir, Greetings from Karlstad Sweden A scantily few probably get to read your wonderful paper rag; I am ashirwaded* to read it as an attachment. With Europe going through an unimaginable heatwave with two jet streams having locked in the hot hot air or should I […]
Farewell speech: School Vice-Captain 2021 Udit Jain
Farewell Speech – Udit Jain: I still remember joining this institution in Class 4, where my matron helped me settle and adapt to the school. Then came a time when I was crying not wanting to come back to school but here I am standing and delivering this speech and not wanting to go. This […]
Just Keep On Walking
Started walking 29th April 2022 from Lisbon Portugal and arrived here today 01 June 2022 at 1142 Spanish Time covering 783 km equating to 1,118, 571.42 steps… A stage in my life that is teaching me what I never learnt in the first 63 years of my life… humility humbleness and forgiveness 🙏❤️❤️🙏 Vivek [Bonnie] […]
Memories from the battlefields of Vietnam, R&R in the Korean DMZ and much more… – by Joe Joshi
I had to rework some parts of the full package on the fall of Saigon since I first wrote it for The Bulletin newspaper in Bend, Oregon, on the 25th anniversary of the fall of Saigon.I ran a somewhat similar version, including other thoughts, on another anniversary when I was in Laredo, Texas, and for the […]
In continuation….
Sunday.. The quiet day.. I rise with the sun and hear a multitude of birds.. Is it the dream I had last night or the arrow that flew as Rush rushed past singing “The Garden..” I had butterflies in my gut.. weakness in my knees my body spoke but did I listen? Ever did? “ […]