When the (Memorial) park workers laid my father six feet below ground, my sister, on my left, said “The la xong” (C’est fini, It is finished). I was too busy processing the combined visual, auditory and kinetic sensories to figure out what she meant by that. Maybe she, the oldest person alive to have lived…

The battle did not start on that day and certainly not ended at 10:06 AM when UA-93 went down on 9/11. A bit more flying, it would have crashed and killed 501 students of Shanksville-Stoney Creek School in Pennsylvania. Left to its intended course (after the U-turn), it was a guided missile locked for the…

People were often asked that very same question, as time goes by. When President Kennedy got shot in Dallas, the US was a nation in shock and with shared grief. Thanks to the medium of Television, CBS News in particular, with Cronkite, barely had the time to put on his sports coat for Breaking News…

Irregular. Refurbished. Re-store. Pre-Own. Salvage. Rental-return. Opened-box, on-display robots. Companies e.g. Fry’s Electronics, understandably try to push products. Electronics items used to command high-priced high margins (the trend is returning, with Intel investment in Europe). Others pushed furniture rentals (it might work in our post-Ida period) in destitute neighbourhood (it’s the financial back-end, stupid). Before…

Everything came in twos on that day: the Twin Towers, NYC’s two front teeth, got knocked out. At the same time, the perpetrators had planned another one-two punch in D.C. but their plan was thwarted by Beamer and fellow passengers on UA-93. We might think 9/11 was just one day. But 9/11 has taken a…

I know where they will someday go: to see Ellis Island, to see the One-World Centre, to visit Ground Zero. But for now, they are escorted to Ft Dix on the bus, to be “processed”. Future unknown, uncertain. Your guess is just as good as theirs. But safer, for now. The children of 9/11 are…

They were called “the Separatist”, because they wouldn’t take it any longer (the persecution and harassment of the Church of England). 1/3 children, 1/3 Pilgrims and the rest, vagabonds (today’s homeless) boarding a 30-foot boat, and set sail for Jamestown, VA… All planned to work off the debts accrued from their passage to the New…

The World Trade Centre were built with Peace and Harmony in mind, according to Yamasaki, principal architect. 200,000 tons of steel, lifted by “Kangaroo Cranes” imported from Australia and assembled to be then the tallest. Another tower, the Third Tower, our pillar of Democracy, is under attack, from voting rights to culture war, from domestic…

Right before our eyes, people crushed, pushed, shoved and showed their papers. Sweat and tears, separation and survival. Then the planes airlifted to 30,000 feet, leaving behind the dust and the doubts: free at last! Not yet. Not quite. Not completely and mentally self-vetted. You might want to be sure: do you want to leave…

The commandment is to love one’s neighbours. That’s just in theory (biblical). In practice, there are such things as sociological construct (demographic), political affiliations and financial obligations (bank repossession). So your neighbours got evicted…in times of pandemic uptick, economic downturn and worst: Kabul falling. Every twenty years or so. We need to retake the test…of…