So I watched the much talked about killing fields video and I’m going to keep my opinion to myself. The comment war online on You tube between both races is rampant and hard to miss if you watch the video on You Tube. The war may have ended 2 years ago, but the racism is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘War’
25 May
I’m glad this war is over, but….
Did we care? when Kumar lost his brother? Running away from his home, that was being rained with pellets? Or about Rani-amma’s lament? When her 8 year old was snatched from her bosom. We raced around town, in our air-conditioned Prados Munching gleefully on doughnuts When roti was soaked in water and consumed to survive. [...]
23 May
The boy
He scrambles over to the truck A big truck with a funny picture on it. He’d seen many of those come and go. They’re generally good news Stretching with all his might, he reaches for a pack of marie biscuits His sister back at the tent has a bottle of water, to bathe her wounds [...]
18 May
The end of a reign of terror?
Last morning I woke up to a family sitting around the TV. They were watching the last bit of SL get liberated. I generally wake up to a phone qued up with news alerts. One read that the president was returning to SL this morning and that religious leaders would be invoking blessings on him [...]
