by PenTales Pundit Aswini Sivaraman What more could be said about one of the single most important events of the new millennium? On the 10th anniversary of one of the most tragic catastrophes the world has ever witnessed, it seems that our lives are abuzz with the echoes of that […]
What words can describe the loss of a person dear? And what rationale can justify what you have lost? We may be seeking some compensation for what happened ten years ago, but with what purpose? Does it matter? Our final story for the 9/11 week is an excerpt of a […]
When the first plane hit the World Trade Center on 9/11 I was at my desk and had already gone to the cafeteria downstairs to get my breakfast in preparation for a typically quiet morning. I worked just across West Street from the Trade Center towers for an investment bank […]
On day 5 of the 9/11 week, we have a tale from Australia. This story is powerful; however much you don’t want to relive the day, reading the author’s experience does. Yet, what it lets you know is that you don’t have to belong to a place to feel some […]
topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris Listen to the Story! It was a lovely way to wake up. The rising sun poking its golden fingers through the half-closed blinds, and bathing Dave in warm dappled light. He’d had a long week, and as […]
topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris Listen to the Story! Amanda grimaced and scrunched her eyelids ; the words on the page had begun to slide away from each other, on sentence conveyor belts. She read them aloud, to her audience […]
topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris Listen to the Story! When I first went to South America I was traveling on a huge truck that had been painted blue and refitted to carry gap-year travelers across the continent, spending their parents’ money […]
topic: TRAVEL medium: TEXT, AUDIO as shared at a PenTales event in Paris Listen to the Story! It was the summer of my second year at university and I had four long months looming ahead of me. In search of freedom, I did what any university student would do- given […]
Day 4 at the 9/11 week only means we’re inching nearer toward an anniversary we wish we didn’t have to remember. The tragedy was something that had far-reaching effects. It would be difficult to confidently say you weren’t even a mite affected by it. It’s probably the reason someone couldn’t […]