Vijay Verghese

A beacon on the road to hope... 🙏🏻

Well, every palace needs a ballroom to lead subjects a merry dance

Simple pleasures... but gosh look at the variety!! 😅😀👍🏻

Surprised and heartened to see oases of calm like this still exist. Thanks for sharing this window into your world

We're all with you. Sad to watch from afar. The worm will turn

If only this moment could spread across Ukraine

Well it's a start, if muddled. Discussion, ideas, motion are to be welcomed even if the script is rigged. Making a start is always good. We wish you luck

Gerrymandering by Democrats as a tit-for-tat to counter Texas Republicans will mean the unraveling of democracy (or representative govt). Electoral rigging needs to be fought at the legal and Constitutional level

Most unusual. Why was this?

Are there still safe areas in Kyiv? Hopefully more defensive weaponry will arrive soon

Bali serenity up in the cool Ubud hills. These are places to restore the spirit, drain the wallet, and remind us that peace and harmony are not just Woodstock ideals. They are quintessentially natural

This tragic chapter must be brought to a close somehow.

Art of a Heel

The other side of Hong Kong

Beautiful. May calm return

This 'analysis' is entirely one sided. Both sides need to get facts right. A startling reveal on a SKY interview that social media was the official source on downed jets is bizarre. The Pahalgam killers' source of indoctrination, support and weapons warrants serious investigation, not chest thumping

Still way too high

This is quite out of control and beyond civilised norms

It's the only way to break free from special interest and corporate clutches. So good to see that war chest is growing

The botox lips? The vacant stare? Oh, the gun!

Stay safe (if there is such a thing). A bit awkward hitting the 'love' button on posts dealing with fear, death and destruction but...

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index has dropped 13% today and the day's not done

Opportunities now for the emergence of new regional trading and political blocs, an overhauled world order with a stronger South, and perhaps a restructured UN, but an increasingly isolated and marginalised USA. The UK might look at Brexit anew with the transatlantic special relationship torpedoed.

Keep writing and sharing views from that window to your world. Ukraine cannot be forgotten

Very glad to hear this

Yes, sadly peace only comes through strength

Straight to the point

A wrecking ball. The human cost of this farcical cost-cutting is incalculable. These chickens will come home to roost

Wrecking vital DNA and savaging the country. It's all going to cost

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