India, Nov. 2 -- "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the society", said Percy Bysshe Shelley in 19th-century England while critiquing the many colonial projects his motherland was going stron... Read More
India, Oct. 26 -- "You are years behind Gullu. He got his PhD last year and has become a professor in the government college." My father has a knack for souring things early in the morning. The said G... Read More
India, Oct. 25 -- "You are years behind Gullu. He got his PhD last year and has become a professor in the government college." My father has a knack for souring things early in the morning. The said G... Read More
India, Oct. 19 -- There's a lot of dissing the 'Gram' (Instagram) these days. Let me, therefore, be contrarian and begin with a scandalous proposition: To truly know a person today, you must study the... Read More
India, Oct. 12 -- "Where are you from?" "India." "Oh, you don't look Indian." About 30 years ago, this conversation would have thrilled me as a child growing up near India's biggest tourist attraction... Read More
India, Oct. 11 -- "Where are you from?" "India." "Oh, you don't look Indian." About 30 years ago, this conversation would have thrilled me as a child growing up near India's biggest tourist attract... Read More
India, Sept. 28 -- In a twist of irony, in my 40th year on this planet, I received a Barbie Doll from my daughter. I never bought her one in my joyless, righteous, feminist young mother avatar. I may ... Read More
India, Sept. 21 -- Nobody cares for the feelings of a road. With each pothole on the highways, every single traffic jam in the city, and every has-been trail-like shadow in the hills, a road gets curs... Read More
India, Sept. 20 -- Nobody cares for the feelings of a road. With each pothole on the highways, every single traffic jam in the city, and every has-been trail-like shadow in the hills, a road gets curs... Read More
India, Sept. 14 -- This author needed a breakdown in a small Pennsylvania town earlier this year when the world was still in the throes of New Year's festivities. Some epiphanies can only occur when o... Read More