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Please add me in. Could just walk across from my work, unless the Christmas lunch gets too heavy. Cheers.

Thanks rabtag Sticking to the same analogy you have quoted; the film Schindler’s List, closes with Oskar Schindler driving away, being thanked and cheered by the workforce whose lives he had saved. Yet he is full of remorse, saying ‘I could have done more, I could have done more’ – it is a poignant m ...

Back to the UK qualifying exams. There was a hierarchy among survivors and non-survivors. The Auschwitz survivors look down on the ones who were only in concentration camps, and the people who were in the latter look down on the ones who were only in labour camps, and those people look down on the ...

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Only voicing our inner battles. The thought was inspired by ?Anbe Sivam? that movie master class on what matters in life.

The words were paraphrased from Alain de Botton, a brilliant contemporary philosopher. Which of his works? - I do not recollect.

Most of us have floundered out of our depth in pursuit of the unattainable, knowing that we look vaguely ridiculous in so doing. I started enquiring Shiv about his good friend Shree. Now, Shree was the contact in Kent which Ganpat provided. He was the clinical director of the department. He helped ...

[QUOTE=Koeli;310324] Life is a great teacher, she never asks you if you are ready for lessons [/I][/QUOTE]

Very well said.

The past asserts its increasing hegemony over the present with each passing year of a person's life. T’was end of 2007. Shiv was senior to me by a good twenty years. He had visited Liverpool for a conference when I bumped into him. I haven’t seen him in 10 years. Lot to catch up. That evening, pe ...

I would like to reassure you that the surprising tangents, the unannounced shifts in mood or direction which you find has a compelling logic. If these otherwise peculiar sequences were restored to their original context that logic would emerge. We had a kitty. 25 pounds/week/person would keep us fed ...

It’s a far cry. From not having an email id to twitter, blog, website and the likes. Even facebook is under consideration. But, I was warned that I wouldn’t get friend requests if I disclose that I read books without pictures. It’s a far cry. From four in a room dorm to a health camp in an esteemed c ...

Though glossed over, like the Grand Canyon, the gap between landing in London and landing a training job was huge. Too many variables which are not really under your control. My luck - it was like the London buses, it comes in three’s or none at all. The Rosebery Avenue house where we stayed had s ...