This Is The Time

This is the third part of the article written and posted by Anu Garg, the founder of the online community, Wordsmith.org . He is an Indian American.  Dispatches from Japan - Part 2 Pic courtesy: wikimedia.org Japanese fol ding fan Here are some random observations from my trip. · ·           I had the image of the folding hand fan as something that little old ladies carried as a fashion accessory. Turns out it's something practical. I noticed everyone, taxi drivers, office workers, and students, fanning themselves with folding fans. It's an essential accessory for anyone, man or woman, during the hot muggy month of August. ·          There's a vending machine at each street corner. No, let me be more precise. There are multiple vending machines on each street corner, selling dozens of hot & cold drinks, including tea, coffee, beer, and even Coke and Pepsi. If you don't...

This is the second part of the article written and posted by Anu Garg, the founder of the online community, Wordsmith.org . He is an Indian American. His schooling took place under a mango tree, his classroom consisting of a few broken sticks of chalk and a blackboard made by painting a flat piece of wood with soot. The only language he knew was Hindi, and he did not see a library until college. Garg graduated from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute in Computer Science in 1988. He lives in the Seattle area with his wife, Stuti and daughter, Ananya. Garg became a naturalized US citizen in 2008. Dispatches from Japan - Part 2 Hiroshima, Courtesy: Wordsmith.org Last month, on Aug 6, as I sat under a pavilion that protected people from oppressive heat, it was hard to imagine that that place was much much hotter exactly 68 years ago. I was in Hiroshima, the place that has the dubious distinction of being the first city to experience an atomic bomb. Every year, ...

This is taken from Wordsmith.org , written and posted by Anu Garg, the founder of the online community comprising word lovers from around 200 countries spread over the globe. He is an author and speaker and his books are all about words. We should be proud because Anu Garg was born in rural India. I sincerely suggest to visit the web site to grace the beauty of words. Dispatches from Japan - Part 1 Ryoan Ji, Kyoto zen garden in Japan, Image courtesy: Cquest, Wikipedia Last month I spent some time in Japan. Here's the first in a series of travel reports from that trip. After visiting the Ryoanji temple in Kyoto, I walked the long passageway back to the main road and approached a taxi. The taxi driver pointed to another taxi ahead of him that I hadn't noticed. Then he got out to alert the driver of that taxi to open the door. After I got in, he bowed, and went back to his own taxi. This may sound like an unusual gesture of courtesy, but courte...