Kamala Harris and her Chennai connect

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The celebrated Tamil poet Bharati described the modern women thus “With graceful strides and head held high and looking straight into the eyes with ideals that are not afraid of anyone in the world… the woman does not falter as she has the possession of wisdom.” These aspirational hallmarks of the new-age women seeped so deeply into the Tamil psyche that it produced an unprecedented stream of emancipated and enlightened women in the capital city of Chennai since the hundred years the poet scripted the mesmerising lines. From music, art and theatre to medicine and politics, the female folks of the metropolis has made an indelible mark in diverse walks of life and their imprints are now seen across the county and abroad. And Kamala Harris is an offshoot of such a phenomenon.

The trigger to this enthusiastic transformation is the varied socio-cultural and political factors that played out during…

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Alphabet soup for the soul – “A”

Words from Walden

A is for Abundance

Abundance is not something we acquire, it is something we tune in to.”

Wayne Dyer

God, Source, The Universe, The Feild. Whatever you call the higher power that created us and allows blood to travel substantial distances freely through our veins is providing abundance everywhere, all the time.

This same infinite intelligence keeps us breathing while we are fast asleep, resting and repairing, regenerating and rejuvenating so every day we function at an optimal level.

The same higher intelligence also provides fruits and vegetables to nurture the body. By harnessing the sun’s power plus water as it falls from the sky, all the food needed for survival grows on trees, bushes or directly out of the ground.

The amount of food produced each year is enough to feed the whole world multiple times and it all stems from the tiniest volume of…

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(1) Montrealers line up bright and early for AstraZeneca vaccine after province expands access | Globalnews.ca

Montrealers were queuing up outside inoculation sites Wednesday morning to get their first dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

The long lines come after the provincial government expanded access to that brand of vaccine Tuesday by dropping the minimum age requirement to 45 and older. Under the plan, 600,000 more Quebecers are now eligible for their first shot.

Prior to that, only people older than 55 were able to get that vaccine at walk-in clinics.

The change has prompted eligible adults to line up outside several vaccination centres in Montreal, including the Olympic Stadium in the east end and the downtown core’s Palais des congrès.

Source: (1) Montrealers line up bright and early for AstraZeneca vaccine after province expands access | Globalnews.ca

Manhattan to Stop Prosecuting Prostitution, Part of Nationwide Shift – The New York Times

The office will continue to prosecute other crimes related to prostitution, including patronizing sex workers and sex trafficking.

Manhattan will join BaltimorePhiladelphia and other jurisdictions that have declined to prosecute sex workers. Brooklyn also does not prosecute people arrested for prostitution, but instead refers them to social services before they are compelled to appear in court — unless the district attorney’s office there is unable to reach them.

The Brooklyn district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, in January moved to dismiss hundreds of open cases related to prostitution and loitering, and said that he would eventually ask that more than a thousand be dismissed. The Queens district attorney, Melinda Katz, followed in March, moving to dismiss hundreds of prostitution related cases.

Del Ray Echo Hawk

Pacific Paratrooper

”Ken’s Men Against the Empire, vol. I”

I acquired “Ken’s Men, Against the Empire, volume I” during this pandemic of ours and when I reached the story of Bootless Bay, I couldn’t get it out of my mind, so I decided to share it with you all.  I thank the research of Lawrence J. Hickey and the IHRA for over 373 pages of unforgettable stories, plus a sneak preview of Volume II.  I can’t praise this organization enough.  I recommend you all try at least one of their books.

Del Ray Echo Hawk

Rescue from Bootless Bay

As men fought on the ground in New Guinea, the 5th Air Force was in the sky above them.  The B-24D, the “Ben Buzzard”, 43rd Bombardment Group/64th Bombardment Squadron, with Lt. Stephen Blount as pilot, could be heard over the radio at Seven Mile Drome as they returned in violent weather over the…

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Gopi And The Tank

Weekend Stories by Trishikh

Gopi Chand emerged from the pitch dark bowels of one of the four compartments of the world’s largest elevated steel drinking water tank, at a height of 110 feet from the ground level. His livelihood could be easily featured in the ‘World’s scariest jobs’ list, however, hardly any of the 10.5 million people whose lives were directly affected by his profession knew about his existence in the hustling-bustling metropolis of Kolkata in the West Bengal state of the Indian subcontinent.

Gopi was proud of his livelihood, a job that he had inherited from his father four decades ago in 1980 when he was twenty years of age. Now in the year 2020, he was just a few months shy of retirement.

His employers the ‘Kolkata Municipal Corporation’ or the KMC priorly known as the ‘Calcutta Municipal Corporation’ or the CMC, had not been able to find a replacement for him…

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It is difficult to talk about the Amazonia without using colors – Evna Moura — Art & Culture Inside

Barbara Crane Navarro

‘I believe that my work wouldn’t even exist without culture. Much in part because of the reference to the place where I was born and the cultural influence that this brought me. Like the materiality I seek, the traces, the questioning, the ancestry, the history, thecolours.’

It is difficult to talk about the Amazonia without using colors – Evna Moura — Art & Culture Inside

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#DIADOÍNDIO? — Mágica Mistura✨

Barbara Crane Navarro

Por Bruno Kanela É preciso entender as lutas do nosso tempo. Incansavelmente, os povos indígenas do Brasil têm ocupado as redes sociais e os espaços de debate neste mês para reafirmar que desde a colonização não existe uma data a se comemorar como se propõe o dia 19 de abril e, por isso, todoo…

#DIADOÍNDIO? — Mágica Mistura✨

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« La seule raison pour laquelle la forêt ne se transforme pas encore en chaos, c’est que quelques grands chamans font encore danser leurs puissants esprits pour la protéger »

The only reason the forest isn’t turning into chaos yet is that some great shamans are still making their mighty spirits dance to protect it.

Barbara Crane Navarro

Un chaman Yanomami invoquant les esprits pour empêcher les intrus de détruire la forêt – dessin sur papier: Wacayowë Yanomami

Un chaman Yanomami invoquant les esprits pour empêcher les intrus de détruire la forêt – dessin sur papier: Wacayowë Yanomami

« Les esprits xapiri du chaman écrasent avec colère les avions des chercheurs d’or dans la forêt. C’est vrai! Cela s’est produit lorsqu’un très grand chaman est mort du paludisme propagé par des mineurs d’or. Plusieurs avions de chercheurs d’or se sont écrasés à la cime des arbres à ce moment-là. J’ai vu leurs fuselages détruits abandonnés dans la forêt de mes propres yeux.

Les chamans ne repoussent pas seulement ces choses dangereuses pour protéger les habitants de la forêt. Ils travaillent également pour protéger les Blancs qui vivent sous le même ciel.

Si l’épidémie de xawara continue d’envahir nos terres, les chamans mourront tous et personne ne pourra plus…

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