My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.