The week was all about volunteering in the company. On Thursday, my teammates and I joined some other colleagues by volunteering to paint the walls of one of the public schools in the city.
In my typical odd-one out behavior, I am the only who does not have a yellow shirt, and I wore a dress which i knew I could comfortably throw away should paint get on it. It was a really productive and happy day for me.
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I just finished reading Amit Majmudar's Partitions...I love it and I would love share it...so I am giving away my personal copy...all you have to do is comment on this post.
Synopsis
India is torn into two, communal violence breaks out on both sides of the new border and streaming hordes of refugees flee from blood and chaos.
At an overrun train station, Shankar and Keshav, twin Hindu boys, lose sight of their mother and join the human mass to go in search of her. A young Sikh girl, Simran Kaur, has run away from her father, who would rather poison his daughter than see her defiled. And Ibrahim Masud, an elderly Muslim doctor driven from the town of his birth, limps toward the new Muslim state of Pakistan, rediscovering on the way his role as a healer.
This is the story of their journeys across a ravaged land, of the acts of compassion and cruelty that shape their new lives and their new nations.
Kisses from Bonn
♥ Lara
