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January 6, 2020 |
Humayun's Tomb in New Delhi. Photo by VED on Unsplash On an evening stroll down my street, the azan echoes, stops my feet, reminds me it is time to pray, but I start musing on that day: Bha... -
July 3, 2017 |
Wally Gobetz, “Unisphere,” Corona Park, Flushing Meadows, New York, June 4, 2006 The following is a transcription of the author’s TEDxCoMo talk given on May 31, 2017. My ac... -
February 6, 2017 |
Geoff Livingston, “America Is a Land of Immigrants,” Dulles International Airport, January 28, 2017 Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal used to say that he drew his worldview from a dry cleaner’s slip he cam...
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