Every time I see a news item about the abducted Nigerian School Girls, I couldn’t help thinking that it’s pure happenstance (whatever Bill Bryson says) that I am here in India, being whatever I am now, instead of being an abducted school girl in Nigeria.
And I wish the world were a place where I could be a school girl in Nigeria, a Crimean Turk in Russia (or for that matter in Crimea), an Arab in Israel, a Jew in Palestine, a gay woman who likes-to-drink or smoke in India, a coloured gay person in the United States, a person of colour in the United Kingdom, a bushman or woman in Africa, a religious person in China, a non-communist or non-putinist (is that a word?) in Russia, a Buddhist in Tibet, an orthodox Muslim in the West (or much of India for that matter), a not-for-military-coup person in Thailand, or a transgender person just about anywhere and… have the same freedom and same opportunity to exist, excel and enjoy as say a white straight man in an American or Common Wealth city would have.
Sigh…
PS: Of course, it’s all about me… need you ask?
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