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Sonam Tshomo and her husband Karma Losang have been supporting three orphans for ages now. Today, one of the children, Tshering Deki, got her first paycheck. She kept just one thousand and deposited all others into Sonam Tshomo's account as a mark of gratitude. Sonam and her husband themselves are out of country at the moment and do not know that their accounts have fattened not by one paltry paycheck but with gratitude. She was thoughtful enough to buy me a pair of stocking. Oh!!!! how did she know that there was a toe-hole in my stockings lol?????  Tshering Deki is the eldest of three children who survived the tragic road accident sometimes in 1990s. She was a child herself then and carry faint memories of her  parents. I remember my friend Sonam Tshomo making fuss as she did school shopping every year. Afterall children are children and they have their own whims and fancies, choices and dream, innocence and emotions...even I have and that also in bigger measure....and th...

...Ata Chedup is an interesting character. he studied upto class 5 .He has three school going children. During mid term exams, he asked his children to study. The children tested him by asking him to teach them things that they didn't understand. When his children got their papers, they realised that whatever their father taught was all wrong so they complained to their father that he was useless. Ata Chedup who was drinking beer that time turned emotional and started to flaunt his broken english, " when father not eating, what he vomiting...."

“One day my son asked me what I was….whether I was Batman, Spiderman, Ironman or Superman….I said I was Common man. He had never heard about common man so it was natural for him to ask what common man costume looked like. I am sure he must have fancied some kind of costumes letting muscles ooze out of bare thighs and arms. And when I told him that common man wears pyjama and has only beer belly to show, he went into some kind of thinking for some moment. When he finally spoke, he said, “Can common man buy me Wii?” Well, I guess this is the problem with common man. We only have imaginations and not money.... We get caught in another man's plot. We run from one authority to another looking for refuge. We beg for help. Sometimes, we are left with choice, whether to buy petrol or to buy vegetables.  We put petrol because it concerns our dignity. No one would know that our curries have become tasteless for want of onions and cheese.  We have lon...

. . . Oh! there once was a tree. And also there once was a huge rock. They lived for many years together. Tree believed that he was greatest because he was about to touch the sky. Rock believed that he was greatest because he had lived millions of years and was as old as the earth itself. They quarreled sometimes trying to prove themselves the greatest. Then one day in 21st century,a contractor arrives. He looks at the tree and also at the rock. Then he goes and comes back with powerchain, drilling machine and some explosives. The next day, tree is heading for sawmill and the rock is heading for crusher.

Anitha Santhi is an Ecological Scientist originally from Kerela. She is the main force behind Tamil fishermen and villagers opposing the construction of nuclear power project in  Tamil Nadu. Her book titled NO, which can be seen in her hands not only moved millions to oppose the project but also created  tides of supporters among natives and non-natives, Indians and non-Indians, writers and readers, etc. Such is the force of dedication, selflessness  and expertise. I have all the respect for this unsung legendary lady.

A young couple moves into a new neighborhood. The next morning while they are eating breakfast, the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside. "Tha ... t laundry is not very clean; she doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap." Her husband looks on, remaining silent. Every time her neighbor hangs her wash to dry, the young woman makes the same comments. A month later, the woman is surprised to see a nice clean wash on the line and says to her husband: "Look, she's finally learned how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this? " The husband replies, "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows." And so it is with life... What we see when watching others depends on the clarity of the window through which we look