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Meet Soila & Curtis: Happily Married In Their 20s
The image painted of Marriage is that of a wedding gown, a ring worn, honeymoon or a paper signed. Signed to pronounce a life commitment and for others, a convenience drawn back before even the ink dries. Till death do us part, they say, assuming no other lifetimes after mortality. If you take this at…
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Meet Santuella: The Wanderer Lost In Prose
This life is an adventure. The thing about it is, where we wander; none have walked before. Our life is sacramental. Infact someone once wrote, ‘It is lived as a secret and told as a lie. Sure, we share bits and pieces of what happens throughout our days, or within our nights, but that’s all….
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Meet Fidel Makatia: The Einstein from Kenyatta University
When Plato argued that ‘Necessity is the mother of all inventions’, he provoked a storm of ideas on who actually gives birth to inventions. Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead disagrees with this idea. In fact, he thinks this proverb is silly. He says, “Necessity is the mother of futile dodges” is much closer to the truth. ‘The…
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Meet Rawder Kidula: Road to Radio and Christ, In Her Own Words
I love my pieces articulate and declamatory. The kind that stirs your mind, leaves it in a trainwreck of thoughts and later buries it in a bubble. Tea or coffee. They are my companions in this quest. Today, I chose tea. And guess what my teabags reminded me of?… Women! “They are like teabags”, Eleanor…
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Nostalgia is a nasty liar!
Drinks bring back memories. But so do breaths. Every single one of them. At least for us teetotalers, who don’t need drinks to subject our minds to involuntary time travel. The year is 2015. I am in love, with a tender soul who smiles charitably and freely. Eyes are meant to see but hers speak,…
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PART 2: Birthdays Are For Ladies and Maybe Short Men
Who gets rejected and elated simultaneously on his birthday? That can only be a loser who doesn’t give a shilling about the basic rules of charm. That loser is me. I finally understood what it feels to be a Man U fan. So for the past 22 years, I have successfully satisfied the inclination of…