Xavier Bage

@franxav (14591)

India

Joined myLot 11 years ago

Social worker, physician, part-time teacher

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Xavier Bage's Discussions

I'm grateful it's raining

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 10 Jun

After days of sweltering heat the cooling rain is lovingly welcome. Even today, mid-day hours were quite hot. I had gone to the market enquiring about plumbing materials. I returned home as soon as I was done. At about three loud...

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There are bad people around and it's wise to be alert

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 25 May

Am I naive or overly trusting in the goodness of humanity? Whatever it is but I have lost quite a few things from the building site of my new house in the recent months. My fair lady, the mom of my foster children, is quite fond...

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The Privileged Gender - the Fair Class

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 21 May

The last few days I had to travel in the suburban trains quite a few times. Once again I was edified to see how respectfully women sre treated in the society of Bengal. In trains , two compartments are allotted to women commuters...

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Of Relatives and Relationships

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 20 May

My better half got free of her school duties last Friday. She expressed her eagerness to spend some days with her relatives in south of Kolkata. She has two elder sisters and a younger brother.They have their own children. Though...

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After the Change Over the Spill Over

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 16 May

We are just a tiny remote corner of the world . And so, I don't expect news of our little insignificant village to find space in the international media of any kind. Nevertheless, allow me to share the happenings around me. Our...

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Why is the bank server busy ?

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 12 May

Since the beginning of April last I have been facing this problem and have not been able to get around it. I have a little Airtel Bank account to do my little transactions, like recharging my phone or paying for sundry stationery....

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That was the minimum we could do

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 11 May

Today I got 90 packets of sweets and snacks prepared in a sweet shop. l carried them to the school where my daughter studied from Upper KG to Standard VIII. We had to get the child admitted into the school in the town 12 km from...

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A time to be proud and grateful

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 8 May

Last Monday, my wife and I travelled by train to a city 300 km to the north. We went there to attend the convocation ceremony at the medical college where our daughter is a student. There were more than a thousand people seated...

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It's pox time in our foster home and tension time for me!

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 1 May

First it was Barsha(12) who got it . I don't know wherefrom she contacted the virus. Her school is closed for the assembly elections. She had been spending her days attending home tuition and studying in her room. Yet she came one...

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This Scorching Heat drives me out of my vegetable garden

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 25 Apr

I have a small vegetable garden outside my house. There are just a few plants on it. Some brinjal and some chilli plants. I have also planted four moringa branches. There are a few fruit trees as well. Recently, l have also kept...

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What is favourite mylot time?

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 22 Apr

Usually my mylot time is 8:15 to 9 AM. But I don't follow it strictly. If I find something exciting or urgent I am flexible. Sometimes even at 3 or 4 in the morning I feel drawn to the mylot world. However, I never get myself to...

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It's New Year Eve in Bengal

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 14 Apr

You might find it strange but it's very true for us in Bengal. Tomorrow will be the first day of the Bengali new year 1433. The day is popularly known as " Poila Boisakh", meaning 1st Boishakh. Boisakh is the first month of the...

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To Make it a Day

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 14 Apr

Today was a holiday in the school. So the Familia school children were at home. Their foster mother was at home as well. A holiday in the school means more work for us. Bengali school children have been languishing at home for...

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Helping children with their lessons

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 10 Apr

One important part of my work in the foster care home is helping children with their school lessons. I have to help them in all their subjects. But I love helping them with their mathematics and English. This evening, I spent two...

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Looking upon Tea Gardens

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 8 Apr

What is my poetry If it could not speak Of the pains of the laborer woman Standing among the whispering tea bushes Her fingers plucking leaves deftly And collecting in the basket behind her back Her heart carries heavier...

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A Holiday is a Working Day for me!

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 28 Mar

Isn't that a dichotomy or something that is mutually impossible? It's not so for me because I have to work more on a holiday. I explain. I am a foster father of the foster home children. There are two main groups of school...

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Neighbor, that is a Thorny Bush

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 27 Mar

I don't wish to be uncharitable to anyone but here is a case that is amusing inspite of being unpleasant. I have bought a plot of land from a man who was a govt employee. In those days when land was easily available in this part...

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The Unjust Cruelty that We Were Done

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 23 Mar

It will need a long discussion to describe an unjust cruelty that our Indian government treated a large part of its population with. The Election Commission is assertive that what it has ordered is perfectly constitutional and...

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Isn't it pleasing to see the fruit of your labor?

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 23 Mar

I have a 10'x20' plot of land behind my house. I am trying to grow some vegetable on it. Since it was left arid for many years it's not fertile. However, there is a thin layer of humus covering it. I decided to make use of this...

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Suddenly, It feels winterlike

Xavier Bage @franxav (14591) • India 21 Mar

Just a few days before the mercury index of the weather temperature was rising. I was about to brace myself for an early summer heat. But no, Mother Nature had a different plan altogether. Clouds began to gather in the sky two...

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