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  • My comments on Adora Svitak’s post

    I thought it was important that I write a response to a recent post of Adora Svitak’s post whats-with-countries-ending-in Tried posting in her blog, buts seems my comment was much larger than the post. Anyways here it is if it does not get posted there. Adora, I landed on your site as I wanted my daughter to view your blog, I had seen your talk in a TED video. You have good language and excellent writing skills. I am not [...]

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  • Bacha Bazi – Innocence Exploited and Abandoned

    Bacha Bazi – Innocence Exploited and Abandoned

    I first came to know about this illegal, horrid and absolutely criminal practice when it was mentioned in Khalid Hossieni’s “The Kite Runner” where Amir returns to Afghanistan to find his friend Hassan’s son sold and kept captive to feed the pervert imaginations of Afghan warlords in the Taliban regime. My initial thought was that this was just a one kind of incident and might have gone away when the Taliban exited. But I was wrong. A recent documentary about [...]

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