Travel: Small Talk…Nothing Biggie

My observations of the US based on my three-week experience in the country, visiting it for the first time in over ten years!

My observations of the US based on my three-week experience in the country, visiting it for the first time in over ten years!

A reproduction of an article in the Grinnell College student publication Scarlet and Black.

A plea on behalf of my journalist friend Pete Pattisson to vote, online, for his video for a Webby Award. Having worked with him on some of his stories on the plight of Nepalese migrant labourers, here's why it's important recognize his work!

Reproduction of the news release from Grinnell College describing their decision to confer the Honorary Doctor of Science degree to me.

Reproduced below is the news release from Grinnell College about my talk at the College. For the online version click here. I have described elsewhere how all this came about and the details of my impending US visit. Click here for the…

Your birth as anything (class, caste, race, nationality etc.) or with any trait (skin color etc.) considered to be a characteristic of an inferior human being is not shameful. YOU HAD NO CHOICE IN THAT!
It's those that view and interpret that as such and make you suffer for it who are shameful: THEY HAVE A CHOICE IN THEIR VIEW OF, THEIR ATTITUDE TOWARDS AND THEIR TREATMENT OF YOU!