remember Grandpa decorating a handmade feather
Christmas tree with red berries in the tips of the feather branches.
It was a German tradition of making a tree out of feathers by taking
a stick and wrapping the base of the feathers to the stick all the
way up the stick. The tree was three or four foot high and he put
it on top of the big, tall, floor radio. I still remember the beautiful
German ornaments. One was a fragile peacock with a long white tail”.
From this one can conclude that the German culture was still deeply
ingrained in my family, even though they moved out of Germany 200
years earlier.

Exchanging Christmas gifts is a custom that began in memory of the
gifts the wise men brought to Bethlehem for Christ’s birth.
The custom of the ChristmasPakistan Punjab and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. This magazine has never considered surgical strikes as an option. But in private conversations with visiting dignitaries, the government, including prime minister Manmohan Singh, has spoken in those terms. This has been conveyed to the Pakistanis by special envoys like John McCain, the failed US presidential candidate against Barack Obama.
See the Pakistani false alarm against IAF alleged airspace violations in that light. If the fake call to Zardari from Pranab Mukherjee was meant to get India defensive about a military strike against Pakistan, the present disinformation campaign, which has all the hallmarks of a military-intelligence disinformation campaign, is designed to counter any Indian resolve for a surgical strike. With each passing day, Pakistan is winning the psychological war against India.
India has made several