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Manish Thareja was ten years old when his father died of a heart attack. He was raised by a handful of women — his mother and his two sisters. “It left a huge hole in my life,” said the 36-year-old from New Delhi, India. “I always wished I had a fath...

Gary Paterson once desperately prayed for God to cure his homosexuality. The Moderator of the United Church of Canada even married a woman. They were together for ten years and had three children before they divorced in 1982. “I always knew I was dif...

One day Brenda Carbonette decided she was sick and tired of waiting for tardy repairmen. She was 45 years old. A self-confessed girlie-girl who once won a beauty pageant back in her native Canada, and had a passion for diamonds. “I thought I could l...

A few cherished photos are all that remain of Dany Pen’s family history in Cambodia. One of them was snapped the day her mother, Yean Chham, arrived at a Thailand refugee camp in 1979. She escaped there after fleeing from the Khmer Rouge. The picture...

Ally Lusher Tatem cracked open the Bermuda Historical Society’s photography collection and was stunned by the gems she found. She is now helping to share the treasure by making reprints available for sale for the first time. “Most of the work in this...

Marielyce Watner has seen a lot of strange offerings at jumble sales, but the pasties at this year’s Trust event were still a shock. “I think the person who donated the pasties was taking a pole dancing class and then decided she didn’t need the past...

Marq Rodriguez packed 1,500 grocery bags to buy his first movie camera. It opened a world of opportunity for the 18-year-old. His short film, The Last I Heard Your Voice, screens as part of the Bermuda International Film Festival this month. “The sto...

An 11-year-old Bermudian who is terminally ill with cancer has been given new hope. Neehari Robinson moved closer to raising the £20,000 necessary for the alternative treatment his parents, Otis and Shakira, believe can help him to recover. The money...

Joan Gillan’s life was almost cut short by a cockroach 83 years ago. “When I was 14 years old I disgraced myself on my bike,” the 97-year-old said. “In those days, Grey’s Bridge in Sandys had wooden planks. You could see the water below as you rode o...

A former Masterworks’ artist-in-residence has won a prestigious European cartoon award. The Economist cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher had his work selected as the best published in any European country. As the winner of the Grand Prix Press Cartoon Europ...