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Category: Not Quite Paradise
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By Adele Barker It was time to go home. I left Pakistan on February 5 only hours before my visa had expired and winged my way to Paris to see friends for five days before heading back to the U.S. I had mixed feelings about leaving. The pull of family, friends, and the deeply familiar…
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In an odd way, every day is like Christmas around here in Rawalpindi. The lights we put up once a year in the States are part of my everyday landscape in Pakistan. Red, blue, yellow and green lights are festooned outside the enormous wedding halls that dot the landscape of life here. Weddings are very…
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Adele Barker reflects on the tenth anniversary of the 2004 tsunami that claimed over 200,000 lives and left her former home of Sri Lanka deeply scarred.
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Adele Barker reflects upon the changes in the country she wrote about in Not Quite Paradise.
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Speaking to a convention of Sri Lankan Tamil doctors, Adele Barker discovers renewal through books.
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