Great Blessings of God

GREAT BLESSINGS OF GOD O ur Swiss Air flight to Zurich was scheduled to depart from New Delhi on 11th October. We left in the form of a caravan, as it were—five companions, Dr. Saniyasnain Khan, Prof. Farida Khanam, Dr. Rajat Malhotra, Priya Mallik and Khalid Ansari, and myself. We arrived at the airport at 11 pm and boarded the flight, which was scheduled to take 8½ hours to reach its destination, which was at a distance of more than 6000 kilometres. During the flight, I did a bit of reading. First, I glanced at the latest issue of the Swiss Air in-flight magazine. It had articles in English and German. Then, I came across an article that provided some information about Switzerland. It talked, for instance, about the extensive public transport system in the country and the fact that Switzerland has the most comprehensive cable railway system in the world. I spotted a copy of the 10th October, 2002 issue of The Times, a daily newspaper from London. There was a picture of a massive statue of Iraq’s President, Saddam Hussein on its front page. A man was standing in front of the statue, doing some work. Compared to the gigantic statue, he seemed like a dwarf! One of nine new statues was made at the Baghdad Fine Arts Academy.