(Photo Credit: Susan Spaulding) “You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life” crooned Ash as she pirouetted with an unbelievably languid grace. “From where on earth did you get hold of that hideous pair of shoes?” Venky’ s reaction bordered on the apoplectic. Abruptly abandoning her dancing maneuvers, Ash shot a … Continue reading The Surging Waves of Life

(Mount Everest base camp, Nepal | mkslalove Google Maps) Thick milky white clouds obscured the snow-capped mountain. Whistling winds buffeted the fluorescent tents housing intrepid mountaineers eager to summit 8,848 meters of imperial splendour. Resembling the mournful howls of a pack of scheming wolves, the wind cut like ice whenever they found an opportunity to … Continue reading Reveling In The Wind

(Photo Credit: Crispina Kemp) Low Siew Kuan’s eyes brimmed with tears. Tears of fury, futility and forlorn hope. Siew Kuan’s prodigious professional career as an environmentalist and cultural anthropologist was made and marred in equal measure by locking horns with the beacons of crony capitalism; running from pillar to post fighting to obtain project funding, … Continue reading The Bell’s Dome