With recourse only to CNN, it is inevitable, especially over the weekend, that some current affairs permeate through to my consciousness, woefully ignorant as I am of world news/history. These two features that I saw today, touched me deeply.
One was the story of the surviving Jews in Yemen. Articles on the net put the number of Jews left in Yemen today anywhere between 200 and 500; about 45000 were flown to Israel in the 1950s Operation Magic Carpet.
The second was the story of the incredible odds facing Buddhist monks in China and in Burma.
Both the Jews and the Buddhist monks want little- a place to call home and in which to practise their faith. A a place that they will never leave, or be asked to leave.
Where else could you belong, except in the place you refused to leave?
-The Hungry Tide, Amitav Ghosh
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