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The blistering heat of New Delhi, India, is forgotten in the ‘winter in disguise’ summer of Toronto (11 degrees C ). It is a clear azure-sky day and we are out on our first outing of the season, something we had missed on our previous visits, the Lower Don River Valley park. The re-invented Valley… Read more
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In 1959 WENDALL PHILLIPS in his book UNKNOWN OMAN had written ‘In terms of personality, of economics, of politics and of civics, there are no women in Oman; women exist in numbers always greater than men, but their existence is domestic and servile only.’ Again he says:’It has been truly said that the respect in… Read more
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The Portuguese in their discovery phase, looking for spices and trade, sailed into Goa in western India in 1510 and stayed put for more than 450 years till they relinquished the territory to India in 1961. The occupancy left its mark in 17th-century churches and palatial Portuguese homes straddling the rural and urban areas of North… Read more
Movement is the key
