Sangar (Nagrota ),November 25(Scoop News)-Cautioning the people of the attempts by a particular political party (BJP) to create communal tension and divide the people in the name of religion and region, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Monday said that the rally of December 1st announced by BJP in Jammu is aimed at this target. The Chief […]
When the Bronx looks like Paris
I can spot real diamonds from the fakes. Take the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. Even though the Grand Concourse was purportedly built by a French Engineer Louis Risse to model the Champs-Élysées, I recognized from an early age that The Bronx was not Paris. I don’t think anyone can convince me that the huge […]
The Neem Tree: Mysticism vs Reasoning
In some respects, the people of India may seem to be a mixture of opposites. On the one hand they are steeped in mysticism and on the other hand excel in reasoning, defy anything which is opposed to logic and come out with innovative thoughts and findings and of course they are forerunners in science and […]
Part 10: El Camino de Santiago
A new alberque and 2 to Burgos In some of my notes home I found the following: We´re in Ages´ after a good day of discovering who I am. James and I hadn’t walked together but he said it was the same kind of day for him. I´ll tell him to put it in his […]
Palestinians Want Help More Than Handouts in Paris
Suleiman Farhan is halfway through his farming year but has already done enough accounting to know he’ll find himself heavily in debt by next summer. Farhan, 40, a Palestinian farmer in the village of Jiftlik, in the north of the occupied West Bank, was up before dawn on Saturday to harvest a crop of sweet, […]
How to Start a Florist Shop
Have you always loved flowers, especially making beautiful flower arrangements, and think that it sounds like great fun to turn this innate passion into a career? Sure ‘say it with’ flowers has become a cliché, but there really are few careers where you can use your creativity to bring brightness and cheer in people’s lives, […]