Kashmiri Pandit,

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Summers in India's heaven: Kashmir

How the summers remind me of trips to the valley of Kashmir.
Walks in dense poplar forests, rivulets humming in the background, mighty mountains watching over us all the time. Oh the smells of the apple orchards , the apricot groves, the blossoming flowers.
The summer weddings, the pilgrimages, the sleepovers. Summer was time to be in the peaceful valley of Kashmir.
But each summer now, only memories remain, I can ski in Keystone, Colorado, or see the Cherry blossoms in DC, or go boating in the finger lakes, but everything and everybody enveloping you in one empowering embrace of belonging is still amiss.

A Paradise in Peril

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Career paths

The president said to get more education as your name gets added to the unemployed list,
But what about those who have at least two graduate degrees already? What about those with doctorates?

As students graduate from colleges around the country, where are the jobs for them? What incentive do they have to get higher education?

Money is being funneled to already funded be it banks or universities. The have's have it all and the have not's have only hope.

We still await the change

Graduating Class

It is a wonderful feeling to see young students enter college and metamorphose into energetic ambitious young adults. Like a mother watching her chicks take flight from the nest, A proud college teacher looks at the graduates walk away with honors and diploma with their confident strides into the path they chose.