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Lockdown Reflections: Musings From a COVID-19 Warrior’s Wife (Part 2)

Purnima Ramakrishnan — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:45:00 +0000

My husband's COVID-19 experience has awakened many feelings that seem to be coming to my conscious mind in layers, in time.

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Lumbini, Nepal: Buddha’s Birthplace, What Remains Now and the Ethos of the Heart

Purnima Ramakrishnan — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 07:02:34 +0000

THE BIRTH OF Siddhārtha Gautama 6th Century BC: The old nurse looked at her radiant Queen, Maya Devi. She still had the same sweet smile on her face, and nothing seemed to have changed since the day she was born, the day the old nurse picked her up as an infant. Pregnancy only made her […]

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The magic of a mother’s handbag

Piya Mukherjee — Thu, 03 May 2018 12:33:51 +0000

Flipping through my travel diary of some years ago, brought me to this entry. Dear reader, I, as a mother, if you have ever come face-to-face with logic-defying moments, while preparing for travel, do read on… Others have “aha” moments. I make do with “What on earth am I doing?!” ones. Such a moment happened […]

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INDIA: Kaleidoscope

Piya Mukherjee — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 09:59:24 +0000

How fast can the years rush by? Shifting images: Imagine putting your eyes to a kaleidoscope and marveling at the beauty of the image. Now, just a tiny flick of the wrist and the image shifts and coalesces into something completely new. Beautiful, but new. That is the feeling I have each time I get […]

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A Global Day of Giving! #GivingTuesday

Elizabeth Atalay — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:30:00 +0000

Giving Tuesday was created to transform how people think about, talk about and participate in the giving season. It has become an international movement around the holidays dedicated to giving, in the same way that Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now synonymous with holiday shopping. After the frenzied commercialism of Black Friday sales (that now […]

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SRI LANKA: What do You do When you Chose the Wrong School?

Orana Velarde — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:15:06 +0000

What are you supposed to do when you can tell that the school your kids are in isn’t exactly what you’d like a school to be like? Not everyone has the luxury of just moving kids from school to school just because they don’t like it. I am thankful that our constant nomadic lifestyle let’s […]

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NEW ZEALAND: The Oppression of Expectation

Karyn Wills — Mon, 01 May 2017 17:03:27 +0000

As a new mum, I quickly realised that I wasn’t capable of meeting my baby’s needs, staying alive/sane myself, and having a clean house and the garden the way I would like it. I’m not sure if that’s just me or if it was my baby (eventually three babies) or the way I chose to […]

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INDIA: Home, Mothers and Love

Piya Mukherjee — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 05:46:22 +0000

A few weeks ago, I found myself rubbing a strained back, while contemplating a few dozen cardboard boxes, spilling with myriad possessions. My family and I had just shifted residence and while the bigger home was welcome, the sense of being uprooted, was downright disturbing. Over the days and weeks, while I got back to […]

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INDONESIA: When Your Child Doesn’t Fit In

Maureen — Wed, 15 Feb 2017 05:08:45 +0000

I still remember that day from last year. I knew something was not right when the homeroom teacher got the principal, school counselor and some other unfamiliar faces as I sat down in their office. My gut feelings were right. They pretty much told me my son couldn’t continue in that school for the next […]

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NETHERLANDS: The shape of a mother

Mirjam — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 05:00:13 +0000

My mother used to say the same thing whenever I was sick: “Well, your hands are not sick.” She expected me to do my chores and not to make a big deal about being sick. It was a motto she lived by. When I think of her in those days, I cannot picture her sitting down or […]

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