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Where Moses Once Walked
It takes two hours to leave Cairo behind. What appears to keep us from escaping the city easily is the heavy pollution that blankets the city. Our car and driver, and everyone else in the haze, honk their way through the veiled and clogged streets as if it will take...
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Charles Freer Andrews: Conscience of The British Empire
[From a lecture delivered by the author at The National Army Museum, London.] The period straddling the mid-19th century and the middle of the next was one of the most packed with significance in...
Evolution
I was living in Guelph then, a small city an hour's drive west of Toronto. During a short trip into Toronto one evening many summers ago, I found myself doing the very kind of thing I had fled from...
Strange Are The Ways Of Cupid
A tribute to the wily and winged god of desire, love and affection ... on this Valentine’s Day. I was back in Toronto after a three-year absence. Having completed my law degree at Western in London,...
Montgomery’s Ward
Nubia is the ancient land that spans between Aswan in southern Egypt and the Sudanese capital of Khartoum. It has a rich history, though much of it has been misappropriated by those who have had the...
The Best Medicine
It is common knowledge that the trademark conversational icebreaker oft used by Canadians invariably revolves around the state of the weather. You step into an elevator and you are greeted by a...
Playing House
We’ve all ‘played house’ in our childhood. Some form of it. Whether we were rich or poor, lived here or there, alone or in the company of siblings and friends. It was what we did during playtime, or...
A Modest Proposal: Hey, Let’s Have A Lottery!
[A REPEAT POST] Here’s an idea. It’s not original. It gets bandied about ever so briefly from time to time, whenever we find ourselves in the midst of election campaigns - which seems to be all the...
ET Go Home
I live a charmed life, punctuated with adventure and undeserved joy and delight. No, I don’t yearn for or seek out hazards, perils or any kind of jeopardy. Never even tried extreme sports, for...
In The Lion’s Den
About three months into my freshman year as a lawyer, my mentor, Michael, announced that I was ready for my first trial by fire. “Trial”, that is, literally. I had already appeared in court on a...
Massacre at Thamali
My mother Mahinder Kaur has a tattoo, Ik Onkaar ("All is One"), on her right wrist. She got it at a fair to celebrate having received Amrit (coming-of-age initiation into the full discipline of Sikh...
Back To The Future
I feel like I’ve emerged from a time machine a la H G Wells. Or been through an adventure in a “Back To The Future” sequel with Marty McFly and Doc Brown. I really do. 35 years later. I’m now back...
In The Aftermath
As I get older, my memory of names and places from my latter years falters from time to time, but strangely, the details of what I can still remember from my earliest childhood is eerie. I surprise...
A Second ‘Hit-and-Run’
Eglinton Avenue runs east and west in Toronto. On the south side, midway between Don Mills Road and Leslie Avenue, a private road exits from the main thoroughfare, negotiates a tight loop before...
Of Scarlet Tunics and Blue Blood
It would be trite to state that the true mettle of any nation and its armed forces can be gauged by the manner in which it treats and honours its soldiers - particularly in peacetime, and especially...
Myth History Religion
Many of my travels have been around locales closely associated with myth and legend. Tales and epics add a delicious dimension to the pleasure of going off the beaten track, and inject an element of...
Whispers In The Night
Deep in southern Egypt, close to the Sudanese border, sits the town of Aswan, famous for its ancient temples, Philae and Kabasha, and for its modern temple, the Aswan High Dam - until a few years...
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