Man From Atlan

Memories of Dad  My father passed away last year   while I was in the hospital.  It was the  night of March 16-17, 2019 just before his 91st...

Listening to Iqbal Bano, the subcontinent's great ghazal singer.  Hum Dekhenge A protest poem written by her friend Faiz Ahmed Faiz in t...

  I see spirits everywhere In the trees, the night sky Spirits flashing by Of those once held dear And always, near. ~Naseer Ah...

   Americans have forgotten what we did to North Korea   That act was this: In the early 1950s, during the Korean War, the US droppe...

I have an affinity with birds   The strangest thing happened this Thursday October 12. Our house is a magnet for wild life but thi...

From A HILL CALLED MELROSE  --WW2 in Burma.......A true story.... "May I have a light?" I looked up to see a Japanese – more...

  Barcelona, 1936   The people of Catalonia will vote October 01, 2017 in a referendum to decide if they want to secede from Spain....