ABOUT KAMRAN’s Blog and GUEST BLOG
I- KAMRAN’s Blog: Dedicated to the Common Good- aiming to be a source of hope and inspiration; enabling us all to move from despair to hope; darkness to light and competition to cooperation. “Let the beauty we love be what we do.”-Rumi
II- KAMRAN MOFID’s GUEST’s BLOG: Here on The Guest Blog you’ll find commentary, analysis, insight and at times provocation from some of the world’s influential and spiritual thought leaders as they weigh in on critical questions about the state of the world, the emerging societal issues, the dominant socio-economic logic, globalisation, money, markets, sustainability, dialogue, cooperation, environment, media, spirituality, faith, culture, the youth, the purpose of business and economic life, the crucial role of leadership, and the challenges facing economic, business, management, education, and more.
“When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming together it is the beginning of reality.”—Helder Camara
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World in Chaos and Despair: Remembering the Lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
‘My God, what have we done?’-The timeless and chilling words of Captain Robert Lewis, the co-pilot of a B-29 bomber – named Enola Gay, who dropped the 4,400kg atomic bomb, called Little Boy, on Hiroshima still echo 80 years on.
Hiroshima photographed in 1946. Heat and shock waves vaporized people and incinerated structures.Photo credit: Warfare History Network
On August 6, 1945, for the first time ever in human history an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. August 6, 2025, marks the 80th year since this sheer wanton act of vandalism against humanity, which was repeated three days later, on Nagasaki.
“Tragedy exerts its hold upon our imaginations because it reminds us that justice is an illusion. Hiroshima is the great tragedy of our age from which we continue to seek understanding and yet can never understand.”- Richard Flanagan, author of Question 7
Marking 80 years since the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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- My Poem of the Month: June is the Month of Summer Solstice, Dreams, Love, Romance and Marriage
- A Poem on Hope: Embracing Place and Possibility
- A reflection on the healing and heart touching words and poems of Iranian American poet Kaveh Akbar