‘Insha’Allah‘ is a word I heard growing up from the Muslims I interacted with who were either friends of my family, school or college mates and later colleagues. It’s a lovely word that means ‘if God so wills it’. And yet, it’s not a word that has any fatalistic tones…
There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy. – Ralph H Blum I’m sitting back this Sunday evening and basking in the quiet joy of gratitude. I’m grateful for everything that makes my life what it is at this very moment. There are days when…
Without harking back to the ‘good old days’, because it’s entirely possible that the media brings us stories that would otherwise have been lost, but does it seem to you that we have all become much more insensitive to the suffering of others? The Spirit of Abstraction? Gabriel Marcel in…