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Nikat on a carousel in her Sunday best. My Holy Grail.

 

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'It begins with the king as a boy, having to spend the night alone in the forest to prove his courage so he can become king. Now while he is spending the night alone he's visited by a sacred vision. Out of the fire appears the holy grail, symbol of God's divine grace. And a voice said to the boy, "You shall be keeper of the grail so that it may heal the hearts of men." But the boy was blinded by greater visions of a life filled with power and glory and beauty. And in this state of radical amazement he felt for a brief moment not like a boy, but invincible, like God, so he reached into the fire to take the grail, and the grail vanished, leaving him with his hand in the fire to be terribly wounded. Now as this boy grew older, his wound grew deeper. Until one day, life for him lost its reason. He had no faith in any man, not even himself. He couldn't love or feel loved. He was sick with experience. He began to die. One day a fool wandered into the castle and found the king alone. And being a fool, he was simple minded, he didn't see a king. He only saw a man alone and in pain. And he asked the king, "What ails you friend?" The king replied, "I'm thirsty. I need some water to cool my throat". So the fool took a cup from beside his bed, filled it with water and handed it to the king. As the king began to drink, he realized his wound was healed. He looked in his hands and there was the holy grail, that which he sought all of his life. And he turned to the fool and said with amazement, "How can you find that which my brightest and bravest could not?" And the fool replied, "I don't know. I only knew that you were thirsty."

The Fisher King

 

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To Kill a Mockingbird. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Great Expectations.

 

And now, Tales from the Island of Serendip.

 

Thank you.

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To Kill a Mockingbird. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Great Expectations.

 

And now, Tales from the Island of Serendip.

 

Thank you.

 

You are more than welcome!

 

But I shudder to think what Mark Twain would think of me.

 

 

 

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'Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.'

Mark Twain

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Yesterday India celebrated Republic Day, when the new constitution was introduced following independence in August 1947.

 

Shahina took the opportunity to organize a rally on diversity and equality. She invited the older children to organize it. So they did.

 

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"It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.It’s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death. I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions."

Anne Frank

 

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