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Ramadan and Me – I need some Perspective

Recovered from Facebook Notes. Posted on June 28, 2014, i.e., Ramadan from 10 years ago, back when the fasts were ~18 hours long. It was quite a different experience now, and I’m glad I wrote this, because it is worth … Continue reading

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Of Kalyani and Challenged Children

Recovered from Facebook Notes, posted Sep 17, 2008, written probably in 2004. Kalyani is a school that works under the Bangladesh Protibondhi Foundation (BPF). It is basically a school for ‘challenged’ children. I won’t say ‘disabled’ children or ‘handicapped’ children; … Continue reading

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St Martin’s Island

Recovered from Facebook Notes, posted Sep 17, 2008, written even before that about a memory from roughly 4 years before that. Reading it again, I can see my writing back then was influenced by all the Enid Blyton I read … Continue reading

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The A Level Life in Mastermind

Recovered from Facebook Notes, posted Sep 18, 2008, written even before that A-Levels – a completely new journey altogether – in the alien world of Mastermind! It’s been quite a while since we started this life and we have become … Continue reading

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Ode to Colorado Apartments

I have been so incredibly lucky to have lived in this apartment for the past two years. Never thought I could live in the middle of a city and yet have an apartment by the woods and the middle of … Continue reading

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Facebook: Why did your friend on the job market (or in some other time crunch) disappear?

Why did your friend on the job market (or in some other time crunch) disappear? Or, why I will not be hanging out with you the next few months As much fun as hanging out and chilling can be, when … Continue reading

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Tribute for Mrs. Manzur; submitted to newlywords

I spent 14 years of my life at Sunbeams. During this time, Sunbeams was the most important, even the defining, aspect of my life. In my mind, it was the most amazing place in the world and it constituted my … Continue reading

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