We are in Lima, Peru. We are in Latin America. We were taken to our place of accommodation at Almirante Guisse area in Lima where IYCS-IMCS Latin American Secretariat was located. The Latin American office was in a large white building with a wall around it. Lous Maria, a...

We all were moved from Paris to a tiny town called Luxembourg on the 14th January 1989. Asians, Africans and those who were at the International office arrived in Luxembourg and were joined by Europeans. We were to embark on the longest flight we have ever taken. We later...

I had clear instructions from the International HQ in Paris.  I first had to leave Hong Kong and arrive in Sri Lanka to obtain my visa to France. In addition to that, I had to obtain a Benelux (a joint visa then issued for Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg) visa....

After about two weeks after arriving in Hong Kong, we temporarily moved to the Centre for the Society and Religion or CIRC, which is located at the Maryknoll Convent School compound. It’s a red-brick building on a small hill in the corner of Boundary Street and Waterloo Road, diagonal...

It was the bustling Ngau Tau Kok district where we lived in 1988. On my second day in Hong Kong, i.e. on the 15th July, my colleague Zita told me that she is going to take me to YCS office in Hong Kong. Zita is a tiny woman who...

Am I lost in this concrete jungle? Of course there are more tall buildings than trees here. I still remember my entry into this bustling city. I had no idea where I was going. I just wanted leave Sri Lanka at a time I was sensing no prospect of...

Eymard, Thusitha and I walked back through Darley Road from the direction of the Maradana Police station or Zahira College. We had one of the filling meals we could afford for five rupees—two thoosays (dosas) accompanied by generous supply of saambar and coconut chutney, red and light green served...

Memories of Kwangju and life-long friendships cultivated over decades on. Memories of May My friend Lee Unpretentious Eugene...

Today is May 18th or 518. It is a sacred day for me. Forty years ago today, on May 18th, 1980, students and ordinary citizens of Kwangju (presently referred to as Gwangju), a southern city in South Korea, stood against south Korean military dictators. They wanted democracy and the...

  “Sanjee, I am ready to go anytime. I have done my part, seen and lived the world. I’ve lived enough to see military in Korea sent back to their barracks [out of politics] for good. The greatest satisfaction is that I can die seeing a freer Korea, that...