Soweto
Hector Pieterson was only 12 when he was gunned down -- a hail of bullets cutting short the life of a young black boy and triggering what came to be…
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September 28, 2010
BIg Cats
I touched a lion for the first time in my life at Lion Encounter in Zimbabwe. Paul Dube, who has worked here five years, took me around, warning me to…
September 16, 2010
Mosi-oa-Tunya
Mosi-oa-Tunya means: the smoke that thunders.It's an appropriate name for what the British named Victoria Falls, the largest curtain of water in the world, a mile-wide cataract in the Zambezi…
September 12, 2010
Seeing through the colour lens
Driving through picturesque Cape Town and its environs in the Western Cape, I was truly awed. If you have ever driven down the Pacific Coast Highway, especially from San Francisco…
September 7, 2010
In Cape Town, I cried
I will start my southern Africa journey here, at the Slave Lodge in Cape Town. It is not where I physically began my 10-day trip to this part of the…
September 6, 2010
Water, oil and Iraq
Five years ago, a tropical depression formed in the Atlantic and began moving towards Florida. Later, it would become one of the worst hurricanes to hit the United States.Katrina.On the…
August 24, 2010
Leaving Iraq
The last of the 4,000 soldiers in the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, crossed the border from Iraq into Kuwait Thursday. There are no U.S. more combat brigade teams…
August 19, 2010
You go, girl!
This Sunday, I will be watching the premiere of "Aarti Party." Aarti Sequeira won this season's "The Next Food Network Star" on Sunday night. A lot of us at CNN…
August 18, 2010
Bangla kobita (poetry)
This poem is written by one of my favourite Bengali poets, Joy Goswami. It loses in the translation, of course. And yet...In the evening sadness comes and stands by the…
August 17, 2010
Freedom and flooding
A difficult agreement created Pakistan 63 years ago. The "land of the pure" was partitioned off from India and both nations became independent -- Pakistan on August 14, 1947 and…
August 14, 2010