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Feel Alive through Silence..!
A few years ago, my wife and I had been to Chicago during winter, and stayed in the basement of
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December 20, 2024
Choose Good Friends..!
In my book, ‘DARE’, I have a chapter, ‘Dare to Make and Keep Friends’, but today I’m not going to
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December 19, 2024
The Neem and the Peepal..!
Ever so often, I hear a branch of the Neem tree outside my window rubbing against the metal awning, and
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December 18, 2024
Trust the Director..!
Something I loved doing and still love, is directing some of the plays I’ve written. But even as I directed
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December 17, 2024
Not Celebrating Christmas..!
Yesterday I sang a quartet piece with a family, who’d just lost their father, a strong powerful bass. The three,
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December 16, 2024
Choirs, Christmas, and the Conductor..!
Have you ever heard choirs, whose melodious voices bring tears of joy into your eyes? As if the windows of
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December 14, 2024
Forever Worried Mothers..!
Something that keeps my wife from having a good night’s sleep is when she hears that one of our daughter’s
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December 13, 2024
Why a Disabled Child..!
It was many years ago that I landed at the hospital where my wife practiced, to meet the mother of
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December 11, 2024
Call Discouragement a Liar..!
There were tears in her eyes when I entered the room many years ago. I knew she had been on
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December 11, 2024
Grabbing Property..!
Something that breaks relationships, especially among siblings is the grabbing of property, oftimes in a way, in which one brother
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December 10, 2024
Louder than the Chisel..!
The old mother, in her bedroom down the corridor, cried out, “Where are you, my child?” “Mother, please don’t disturb
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December 9, 2024
An Uneasy Maharashtra..!
Though the NDA allies have won a sweeping victory in Maharashtra, there’s still a sense of unease all over the
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December 8, 2024