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On my WW-II fascination, on D-Day’s 80th Anniversary.
Yesterday, June 6th, marked eight decades to D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion ever, the most extensive operation of the most significant war of our times. A turning point so pivotal that it shaped the rest of the war and the century after it. It decided the outcome and, by doing so, created the world order […]
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On Airports
The moment one steps inside the airport, the rest of the planet might as well fold itself up till its curb. They are a coagulated bundle of all human emotions stripped down to their raw form, in a finite and interchangeable space.
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Alma Mater Matters
I wonder what gives us our nostalgia for the institutions that brainwash us… A Christian missionary primary school in Amravati, where I studied till standard sixth, was my introduction to the term Alma Mater. There was a song or a prayer that we used to sing in the morning assembly which eulogized the school. ‘An […]
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Fire in the Mountain, Run, Run, Run!
The world won’t end all at once, but a thousand houses at a time. All we can do is prepare.