Survival from china. The 19 year old found after 60 hours trapped under landslide rubble. Hello, a gas attack is reported to have taken place in syria. Five people are said to have been killed southwest of damascus. Witnesses say government helicopters fired missiles containing the nerve agent sarin. This despite an International Watch dog saying the last of syrias chemical weapons had been shipped out of the country for destruction last year. Zana hoda has the latest. Reporter this is not the first time there have been reports of gas used as a weapon in syria. Opposition sources say these people were exposed to gas when government helicopters fired missiles in the residential area, that rebelheld neighborhood on the outskirts of damascus has been a battleground for some time now. Translator his rockets were carrying sarin gas and as a result five people were killed, including a 12yearold boy, and more than 30 injured, mostly civilians. The sarin gas was used in the west neighborhood o
When there is so much darkness in the world, should it really be kept out of children’s books?
So long as there is hope, children’s books need not shy away from reality. Pxhere
Three books that landed on my desk recently seemed to be speaking to one another. Or, at least, they got stacked in one pile because of the stories they held inside their pages.
The first one,
Bena’s Summer by Shibal Bhartiya, tells the story of a hope-filled childhood ringed with darkness. Set in the small town of Sultanpur, it paints a picture of a close-knit family against the backdrop of communal tensions, coupled with the innocence of childhood and events that threaten to topple that safe space. “This was a set of people that had seen and survived many riots before. They had lost those they loved, they had lost what they owned,” writes Bhartiya while describing young Bena’s extended family.