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Your Laughter
My dirty laundry is strewn all over the place, and the dishes in the kitchen sink rot so much that I have to go check each night if there’s a dead rat in there. Still, I miss you not for the clean dishes nor ironed uniforms but for your peals of laughter more musical and
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Protected: A Man of Stories
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Beyond
A younger cousin asked me this week. After school, graduation, a job, marriage, a child… Have you scratched the bottom of the well? I’m curious because I haven’t thought about much after marriage and a child. You’re already past that so what are you looking forward to now?Hope that all makes sense. Of course it
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Protected: Between the World and Me
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Adieu
Leaving the service quarters temporarily allotted on an assignment after you are posted out to a new place should not feel as blue as this photograph of the pomegranate tree stannding just outside in the compund lawn.
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Protected: Wet morning & digital nomads
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Protected: From behind the caution tape of quarantine
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Protected: On Unknowing
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On French Freedom of Expression & Muslim Response
I had a speech last week in which I discussed the French President Macron’s remarks on Islam being ‘a religion in crisis across the world’. I drew the audience’s attention on the French side of the issue and said that the Muslim world’s response needs more maturity as we cannot afford to go on a
Eastern Vagabond
Essays on travel, cities, memory, and the unnoticed textures of the world.