Please tell me it’s not true! How much more hypocrisy must we swallow as a nation? Who cares a hoot what becomes of Mahatma Gandhi’s glasses? What about his ideals? Why did the old man let himself be repeatedly beaten and jailed? So we could keep his physical relics and throw his spirit into the dustbin of history? Read more
Some years ago, I was roofless, jobless and without a bean in the bank. I had relatives but I didn’t have family in the sense of ‘home is the place that when you have to go there, they have to let you in.’ I had a bunch of incidental domestic skills (I could run a nice home, keep a good table, grow a garden and maintain a fragrant linen cupboard, organize parties to the last detail). Read more
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