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Geneva Diaries #51*

India & French elections, Marriage, Law, Culture, Monsanto and Technology 5/20/12 Dear Purnima, Some ugly news out of India and the role the Times of India played in falsely given a positive spin to the woes of cotton farmers who had chosen to plant Monsanto GM cotton. http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/11/how-the-times-of-india-colluded-with-monsanto-in-fake-reports-of-bt-cotton-successes/ I think Monsanto and the other GM seedContinue reading “Geneva Diaries #51*”

Geneva Diaries #50*

Conception of The Buddha, Allegiance, Identity, Evangeline in Real and Cyberworld On Sat, May 12, 2012 ,  Roger Stevenson wrote: Dear Purnima, How are you ?  Any silver linings peeking over the horizon ?  I’ve been trying to find a time when we could chat via Skype, but it’s hard to arrange to be aloneContinue reading “Geneva Diaries #50*”

Letters to Suchi #69-The Ballad of The South

I wish to share a chapter from My Letters to Suchi (letter #69), titled the Ballad of The South to remember the long forgotten tale of an old family from the South-Pondicherry/Madras on the 101st birthday of my granduncle Tiger Thyagarajan. Tiger was our family’s anchor to the South (India), the eldest son of anContinue reading “Letters to Suchi #69-The Ballad of The South”

Geneva Diaries #47*

I Express Therefore I Am – Cave Art – Universal Human Rights Cave Art – Art makes Man  11/11/11 Dear Roger, Thanks to you my mind is being stormed by the idea of what exactly it is that makes us human.  Is this immortal quest through time a need to identify and express the self?Continue reading “Geneva Diaries #47*”

Geneva Diaries #34

Tiger – The Soldier, Oscar Wilde, India, Mythology Greek, Evangeline 1/15/11 Dear Roger, It was fabulous seeing you the other day. I felt closer than ever before, like a best (boy) friend (the girl one is taken) or even family, perhaps a past life connection?? I truly felt I could “unload”, and I’m afraid IContinue reading “Geneva Diaries #34”

Excerpts – Geneva Diaries (#1-#5)

Letters To Roger Letter #1 6/16/09 Dear Purnima, You so aptly characterized that period in the US. It was the time in my life where I was a graduate student, learning to see the world through different sets of eyes, loosing that sense of innocence I had about existence and understanding that all the KoolContinue reading “Excerpts – Geneva Diaries (#1-#5)”