I Can’t Breathe
Who gave you the right To place your big fat foot On my neck? To block the passage of air To my lungs? Didn’t you hear me? I said I can’t breathe When you choked the voices That found their way out Despite the atmosphere Saturated with your lies and filth Didn’t…
She is highly educated, lives in a city of the Netherlands and wants her son to wear a turban. What to do?
The Netflix mini series Bir Baskadir (see my post She wears a headscarf, watches trashy television and is smart. What to do? ) reveals the divisions in Turkish society. Between rich and poor. Between religious and secular. Between the rights and privileges that men have as opposed to women. Between the highly educated and the…
If something can go wrong it will
Why one’s antennae for sensing ‘if something can go wrong it will’ should be activated in India. Especially if one is an ‘NRI’ …or a non-resident Indian. And if one doesn’t have them and wants to work or live in India, then it might be a good idea to grow them. Like horns.
Walking Waking
‘I was the wind, the rain, the sea’, says the author of herself towards the end of a six hundred and thirty mile walk along South West Coastal path of England. Borders dissolve, no more separation no I no you no sea sans me Raynor Winn’s journey begins when she and her husband, Moth, lose…
Food for the body, food for the soul
The more they eat, the lighter they feel. ‘Usually in Bervelaag, people did not speak while they were eating. But somehow, this evening tongues had been loosened’. Babette’s feast lasts for about 28 minutes in a film that runs for 99. In these 28 minutes, a group of sober Lutherans, her guests – who look…