Suggestions

July 2021

Infertility And Women In Africa

Infertility affects millions of people of reproductive age worldwide and has an impact on their families and communities. Estimates suggest that between 48 million couples and 186 million individuals live with infertility globally.[1] Childlessness is the state of being without offspring. It
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Eyes Are The Windows To The Soul

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I have always loved people and have always wanted to learn about them from up close. People, their culture, their experiences, always fascinated me since my childhood. I found out that photography gives me opportunities to go and learn about
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Changing The Script

When Dylan sang The Times They are a Changin’ in 1964, a clarion call to generations of rebellious young people, he (and we) would have never imagined just how prophetic his words were. If there is anything constant in our contemporary mediascapes,
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Amaltas

Last night, while reading out a Gaelic verse to me, She said she’d wanted to see a golden shower tree! We discussed how long it had been since we were out last time, Perhaps even longer since we saw
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Breastfeeding

Come my child and feed on these breasts This time maybe my milk will come I’ve removed the scabs, cleaned up the blood The doctor says if you suckle enough My body will answer your hunger Come my child, help
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What You Are

I have paid the price For being what I am, I proclaim with pride. I have withstood icy glances, Burning words, entombing silences; Merciless shutting of emotional doors; Smouldering resentment that flashed cruelly Like bloodstained swords in battle;
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Life – A Path of Choices

The shape, the form and the structure of our life right here right now is a series of choices that grew and expanded consciously and unconsciously, intentionally and unintentionally over the years. What choices do you engage in every day? What
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And It Continues

Mrinalini’s joy was infectious. Everyone around her could feel it. After all, her dream was going to become a reality. She had known Nikhil all her life. They had grown up together, studied in the same school, college and
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Melting Pot

Somewhere over the blue Pacific, I lost my Indian accent it tumbled out of me into the crashing surf I was born again as a true American, a California girl. Grey coastal fog, fields of strawberries and freeway traffic
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VHS Tapes

Tapes are the comrades to simplicity.  cassette click. Margherita pizzas our incense. indeed a mouldy remnant of earlier times but the only place left to see long gone family like mufasa from the lion king.   an era of
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New Beginning

For Happy New Year  I heard last night, Oh it’s time for new beginnings. But I slept before New Year. People wished me a good LUCK, But I slept before New Year. I Ended my Year before New Year, I SLEPT BEFORE
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Cucumber Stream

Vellamaathi and her son Thalamuthu resolved to leave the palm garden-at present, there was only the label but hardly for the fact, was there any trace of one such a garden. To illustrate the Palmyra garden and its reality, not even
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Régis Debray

The thought of Régis Debray Is not for everyone you know Well, it’s complicated, Each thought setting off Trajectories multiple, Prancing, forward Régis Debray! we who are about to die Salute thee, in the face of Torture, death, impalement, castration The
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Bavarian Inn

In Shepherdstown, West Virginia, over on the side of a mountain, overlooking the roaring waters of a river below and just beyond the meeting of three states in my country, there stands a restaurant serving traditional German dishes with German
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The Perfume Bottle

The perfume bottle was once, Filled with colourful liquid, Lying down on the dressing table, It once had a life of its own. Now seems empty with empty hopes, Lying down without colour and light, That coloured perfumed water, Vanished
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Cardamom Tea

  “We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.” — Seneca. This pandemic has given us a perfect reason to change some of our old, perhaps unhealthy habits. Here’s
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