In fact, yesterday was the last “heavy” item on my agenda….a report on a JStreet meeting in D.C. last March which enabled me to give an account of some of the most important moments during three vibrant days in the heart of decomplexed American Jewry on Cherry Blossom!
This moment of peace and harmony left in my heart a lasting impression of solidarity of academics across borders in the true sense of what I had envisioned when I founded with my friend Ingrid Liebeskind-Sauthier our Académie Sans Frontières group, our Borderless Academy of dreamers like us. And as a friend recently reminded me, Lennon wrote his Imagine song for people like you (who read me) and me….
So, let me thank again and again and again my little brother Prof. Surendra Pathak for proving once again that when you trust people and your own feelings, you are never disappointed, quite the opposite, you discover beautiful souls. Such is also the soul of another colleague I met during my Indian visit, Dr. Ravindra Kumar, who whas kind enough to send me two of his recent publications regarding the intellectually challenging (for the western mind) concepts of Non-Cooperation and Self-Reliance.
Kumar, R. (2009). Non-Cooperation, World Peace Movement Trust.
Kumar, R. (2012). Fundamental Structures of Buddhism: The Law of Change and the Principle of Self-Reliance, World Peace Movement Trust.
A special thank to Ms. Mary Attard, Director of the Giovanni Curmi Higher Sec, Naxxar and her staff and students for their warm welcome to my colleagues and students!
Finally, this round of trip ended up in the enconter of the AtlanticOcean and of the Sahara, in a town called Sidi Ifni where I enjoyed a wonderfully relaxing week of belly dancing ….
Finally let me wish you a wonderful spring, with bright cherry blossoms and fruitful encounters as well!
“Eighth International Conference on Third Language Acquisition and Multilingualism” (L3 CONFERENCE), which will take place at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló (Spain) between 13th and 15th September 2012.
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER: Thailand, Laos…and more who knows?