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“Letting Go”: A 26 Dec 2004 Tsunami Story
By Wg Cdr (retd.) Bhupinder S. Nijjar This article was originally published by Vertilift Aviation Insights on December 26, 2020 Meghna Rajasekhar posted the above photograph in May 2020. A Tsunami survivor herself, she had clicked it during her recent visit to Carnicobar Island in the Andamans. The picture unleashed a wave of emotions and…
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The Role of Arts in Countering Violent Extremism
This article was originally published by “NATO Association of Canada” on March 25, 2019. Reporting on the defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the BBC wrote that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) sponsored by numerous global powers surrounded ISIS within a small patch of land near Syria’s border with Iraq. This…
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A Prose Fiction: The ‘Coming of Age’ and the Problems of Youth
The influence of family, school, church, and peers mold us into who we are for a life time. This essay will discuss the coming of age (problems of youth) as depicted in Willa Cather’s (1905) Paul’s Case and J.K. Rowling’s (1998) Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. Paul’s and Harry Potter’s transition from childhood…