I could never make up my mind whether Tintin was an animal lover or hater. Sure, he has a dog, so maybe he’s an animal lover. In one of the stories, as Captain Haddock gets mad at a flock of birds and wants to shoot them down, Tintin resists: In that same story, Tintin …
Turn Around
This time I finally turned around You don’t know what it’s like To live in fear of your own self Fear of your failures So much, you forget to breathe. But then I turned around. Not quite, for this is real life. And I know I just have to drag this on for some more …
The Promise
<Revised version of 'One Day in the Life of a Politician'.> The results of the general elections had been announced. He had won. Now he was here, with his regular escort of fifteen government cars, returning home after the press conference. As he watched the lights of the city night crawl by outside his window, …
Wham!
I had a rather harrowing time with taxis today. We landed from a flight from our family trip to the Andamans. We encountered 4 taxis from there to home. We travelled in three of them, almost got on a fourth, had an accident in the first and a breakdown in the second. We took a …
Afterdark
I have thought often how it was possible that scores of German soldiers – people, all of them – could take such an active part in mass killings and torture of the Holocaust. It might be that some power was driving the war for its own political reasons, but how could such a thing be …
One Life 