Elizabeth
I was working at a table at the outdoor cafe at the Plaza Hotel in Port-au-Prince when the news hit my BlackBerry. "CNN confirms Elizabeth Edwards dies."My heart sank the…
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December 8, 2010
Tourist
Tourist, don’t take my pictureDon’t take my picture, touristI’m too uglyToo dirtyToo skinnyDon’t take my picture, white manMr. Eastman won’t be happyI’m too uglyYour camera will breakI’m too dirtyToo blackWhites…
November 23, 2010
Now this
Tomas is approaching.The hurricane is predicted to hit Haiti by Friday. I called my friend Mariot in Port-au-Prince. "Are you OK? What about your family? Are you still living under…
November 5, 2010
Balaka
It's done.The flat in the building called Balaka (which means swan in Bengali) at 68 B Ballygunj Circular Road is no longer my home. After nine-and-a half years of caring…
October 27, 2010
Coming home
The taxi refused to take the Eastern Bypass -- too dangerous in the wee hours of the morning before the sun comes up and lights up the despair of Kolkata.…
October 25, 2010
Evita
She was a bastard child whose rags to riches story enthralled the entire world. At the tender age of 15, Eva Duarte moved to Buenos Aires to make a name…
October 22, 2010
San Telmo
It's spring in Argentina and on the streets, jacaranda trees were about to burst into full purple splendor. colonial buildings. We rented a flat for a week in San Telmo,…
October 17, 2010
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…
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
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