This is a slightly edited transcript of the author's keynote address delivered at the 12th edition of the Goa Arts and Literature Festival on February 15. I would ask you to join me in a prayer for the children of Gaza. Children who have been slaughtered by relentless aerial bombardment and artillery shelling. Children who have been buried alive under the rubble of what used to be their homes, their schools, their libraries, their hospitals. Children who – even as we gather here in an oasis of peace and goodwill – are looking up at the sky above Rafah in...