“Before I met you, south Indian people made me cringe.” Just as my roommate uttered one of her most ignorant remarks to date, I bit…
(Poetry Collection ‘Available Light’ by CP Surendran – A Review) With ‘Available Light’, CP Surendran unleashes on us, verses set to the eternal ticks…
I did not know Blaze Bernstein personally until this morning. Yet, this morning, when I belatedly came to know of his untimely death, I could…
I picked Washington Square1 from a low shelf in my parents’ living room, having courted the idea for a while, as the book looked pretty. I…
Every morning I wake up at 8 am. I get dressed, wear my expensive tie and shiny watch. Then I roll my sleeves and walk…
Emily Bronte’s Heathcliff is ‘a Lascar’ and a ‘dark-skinned gipsy in aspect’. With the arrival of Heathcliff, the idea associated with him is that of…
Suhail Rasheed shares his experience of reading Leonardo Da Vinci’s new biography by Walter Isaacson
I Skyped with four eighth graders seated in someone’s living room while someone’s grandma puttered around in the background, obviously eavesdropping on our chat about…
Starting in level 1, we began getting evaluations each spring. They checked boxes to indicate our progress in four categories, and now I can’t remember…
In 2013, Pure Heroine burst into pop culture with a precocious “Royals” that was more acutely aware of the limitations of adolescence and the humility…
Enticed by stories of people who were flipping houses and making piles of money, I bought a run-down house on Montrose Avenue in spring 2006….
My grandfather had died. I was four years old. I rested my elbows on my mother’s knees and gazed up at the strange men….
I am neither religious nor especially spiritual nor convinced that God exists. Jewish by background, I am secular in practice. And while I appreciate the…
The short film ‘Memories of a Machine’ was screened on 15th Oct, 2016 at the Seattle South Asian Film Festival. Written and directed by Shailaja Padindala,…
My husband and I are on our way from Madras to Paris. Chennai, actually. Calling the city Madras is more like responding to our pet…
I went to the University of Texas because it’s where my mother would have gone if she’d had the chance to go to school beyond…
In Ecuador I keep seeing a trace of 17th Century handcarts known, at one time, to have carried Confucius. But now we’ve come to…
Harry Potter and The Cursed Child hit the bookstores on 31st July, 2016 and it has been causing an insane amount of excitement across…
America has a long history of utopian experiments, a history that stretches far beyond the hippie communes of the 1960s. Some of the earliest European…
Embed from Getty Images When I first read Mahasweta Devi’s Draupadi, it created a minor explosion in my ‘reading’ life. The theme and starkness…