Freyan S. Wadia It was 7 :00 am when Jehaan was jolted out of the sleep of the dead by a praying mantis on his face. More precisely, by the praying mantis placed on his forehead by his 6-year-old entomophilic cousin. “Hiya!” chirped Parvez, like a happy cricket, while his cousin was fell off the bed, […]
It is rather strange, I must admit, to see the hourglass turned, to see the school system through the eyes of an adult. Did we sound quite that garbled as children? No wonder the teachers didn’t listen to a word we’d said! I doubt we sounded like human speech. In any case, speechlessness appears to […]
Freyan Wadia I have to admit, it took an embarrassing number of years after learning Newtonian Physics, to figure out why people in Australia don’t just drop off the face of the earth. That may have had something to do with flunking that particular terminal exam, so even my grades said, “Welcome to Australia!” […]