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? “ […]
2020 Christmas Letter / Vivek Bhasin
I managed to climb on top of the highest mountain.. the last married pair of swans one-white one-black come swinging in from the north; just swooshing past me I bloody well jump… just managed to land on the black this graceful elegance.. in flight heading south. I held on to my pants more than his […]
John Long Gone Moved On..
yet flying back I glided in.. soft landing in the courtyard amongst my brooding friends.. We all .. Birds of one feather .. the pigeons and I the only grey.. walking amongst the lot. I find my way amongst the hustle and bustle to where he was sitting .. every morning.. ‘Fore sun up he […]
That Green Hamam soap vs Head & Shoulders shampoo…
Every couple of days I wrote on a little slip.. Hamam Soap, Forhans Toothpaste, Toothbrush, Cherry Blossom Shoe Polish, Boff and Face Vaseline.. handed the chit to Lefroy House Master Mr ( Baku) Malvea to sign off at inspection; then headed to the store room that lay adjacent to the Garam Pani Kamra to get […]
Article[s] by Robin Gupta (1965 batch)
Robin Gupta at Villa Kalighat, Panchkula.
The Hump on the Road – by Indi Khanna
I’m terrible with dates. While I need to shovel loads of fish down my gullet to simply remember even my date of birth date, the one date which is firmly etched in my memory is the 1st of January 1978. I was a young pudian (green horn) SD on Panniar Estate in the High Ranges […]