Kabir is sitting in front of a palmist who tells him what is written in the cryptic, labyrinthine lines on his palm. But is he ready to know what he had been so carefully avoiding?

"No other cavity can be deeper, and darker than one’s self. It is the only place where we shall find all the answers and the only place where we shudder the most before striking a match."

“Give me a pack of Gold Flake!” said another customer.

Our blind hero reached out in his shop and plucked the exact packet, like a parrot picking out a fortune card.

The customer gave him the money and waited for the blind man’s act of calculation. The latter rubbed his fingers on the bill from left to right, reached out under his dirty rug and handed the amount outstanding to the customer.

But something truly unexpected happened this time...

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A word of thanks for tuning in to the Season 1 of HummindWord. Here's what's coming.

There is more to acquiring a foreign language than learning about another culture or getting a better job. Tune in and find out.

You can either dance through life wrestling, or you can wrestle through it dancing, to view life not as a fight but a waltz, and to engage with even the most banal activity with the spirit of play.

In this episode, I borrow from the book 'The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language', by American linguist John McWhorter. McWhorter challenges the long-standing viewpoint on languages and how they shape our thought and perception.

I have with me Miklovan Gjokg, and he is going to share with us what life was like in Albania under the woes and throes of Communism. So, why Communism still hasn't lost its charm?