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REVERIES AT 68
By NAVEED GILANI Early on in life, I wanted to conquer the world. Somewhere along the journey it dawned on me that I was an average dude, neither very clever

IT’S MY PLEASURE
By NAVEED GILANI After graduating from college at age 20, I slogged for 45 years before getting myself a nice and comfy Lazy-boy. Now, when someone asks me what

Coast 2 Coast – “Maria O Maria” (Part I)
By NAVEED GILANI You must be wondering about the trailing part of the title of this travelogue. “Coast 2 Coast” is understandable as the whole purpose is to tell

COAST 2 COAST – “MARIA O MARIA” (PART II)
By NAVEED GILANI One of the many attractions of the C2C path is that the entire area is steeped in history; from the spot where William Wordsworth, the poet, said

The Camino – My Way
By NAVEED GILANI ‘The Way’ is a beautiful movie about an American father, played by Martin Sheen, making the pilgrimage to Spain’s Santiago de Compostela in memory of his son

‘F’ for Father
By NAVEED GILANI My eleventh grade Chemistry teacher in Notre Dame College Dhaka, Fr. Graham, once advised us to always aim high. He said something like, “to reach for

My Indian Summer
By NAVEED GILANI “Indian summer is like a woman. Ripe, hotly passionate, but fickle, she comes and goes as she pleases so that one is never sure whether she will

Remembering Abbu
By NAVEED GILANI Abbu’s epitaph reads: Say not in grief that he is no more but say in thankfulness that he was It is said that in the march of life

Women!? What Would I do Without You?
By NAVEED GILANI We have all heard the phase; ‘behind every successful man there is a woman’. I don’t know how many of you from my gender agree with this