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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 as we know it, one…
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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 Ode to Alma Mater’ or…
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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.