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‘Lessons in Chemistry’: We Need More Women like Bonnie Garmus Who Can’t Be Snuffed Out by Men

We discussed “Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus at my book club last month. I…

The Rage in Spain Stays Mainly In the Plain: When I Unleashed My Fury On My Unsuspecting Son

This year I spent my Mother’s Day in Spain along with my husband and son.…

A White Atheist in India’s Island Shrine: My Experience of Muslim Hospitality Culture Outdid My Expectations

“You’ll have converted me to Islam by the end of this trip,” I quipped to…

California’s CARE Court Marks a Paradigm Shift for Those Living With Mental Health Disabilities and Substance Use Disorders

Last year, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a policy framework for developing Community Assistance, Recovery, and…

Limits to Growth: Liberal Biden and ‘Authoritarian’ Modi Summit is Unlikely to Yield Much

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit the United States on a State…

Love and Anti-Blackness: An Indian American Mother Reflects On Raising Black Children in America

My father arrived in the U.S. in 1971, to the same western North Carolina mountains…

‘Political Entrepreneur’ Rahul Gandhi Does Not See Narendra Modi as an Invincible Force

Rahul Gandhi did not wear a Burberry T-shirt when he came to an event in…

The Profound Influence America Had On the Life and Ideology of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar

Last month on my visit to Mumbai, I experienced the celebration of the birth anniversary…

‘Mughal-e-Azam, the Musical’: A Deja Vu Moment of Melodious Music and Soulful Murmurings for the Indian Diaspora

“Mughal-e-Azam” is a choreographed Broadway-style Indian musical that pays an extravagant homage to the 1960 Bollywood film (directed…

Five Days of Terror in Imphal: How State-Sponsored Pogroms Made Us Refugees in Our Country

My family lived in a locality called PaiteVeng, a suburb in Imphal, Manipur, in India.…

Debut Hindi Novel ‘Madhopur Ka Ghar’ Revels in the Quirks of Fate and Ironies of Indian Village Life

“Madhopur Ka Ghar” by Tripurari Sharan is an intriguingly personal novel, part historical, part mimetic,…

Abraham Verghese’s ‘The Covenant of Water’ is An Epic Tale of Conflict and Unimaginable Grief

Not ambitious like “The God of Small Things” but sincerely vested in Godliness. Abraham Verghese…