Twenty-five years ago, on September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon while passengers and crew members fought back aboard United Airlines Flight 93 before it crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people were killed. The date remains etched in our collective memory—and in our worst nightmares.
Whenever I revisit that morning, I return to the gift that keeps on giving, the genius of Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. His nationally circulated column, published on September 12, 2001, gave voice to a country struggling to comprehend what had happened. Five years later, he reflected on the ordinary day that came before the attack: “On September 10, 2001, we went to bed. We slept in innocence. And then the morning came.”
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Babara Johns
At the Gala Opening Event of the 2nd edition of Canada Literature Festival in Mississauga on 14th May, there was a discussion on USA-based Yakub Matthew’s newly published book Seeking the Infinite. It was convened by UK-based noted literary thinker Prabhu Guptara, where I found myself entering not merely a literary conversation, but a strangely layered inner journey. The subject itself, the infinite, already carries a destabilizing quality. It invites thought, yet resists containment within thought. And perhaps that was precisely what made the experience of the discussion both engaging and quietly unsettling.