PERSPECTIVES

By Shaving My Head I Broke Through One of My Many Beliefs — That I Need Hair to Be Beautiful. I Don’t

After carrying my hair for 48 years on my head I decided to shave it.…

Among the Palmettos: My Trip to Charleston was an Excursion Into the World of ‘The Great Santini’

A recent trip to Charleston, South Carolina, brought Pat Conroy’s writing into focus. My friends…

A Joyous Happenstance: When the Intense Parenting Stage Ended I Joined the Robin Hood Army

It was sort of a game-changer when I turned 50 years old. Maybe it is…

Unexpected Delight? How ‘Poker Face’ Pays Tribute to ‘Columbo’ and Annoyingly Flirts With ‘Knives Out’ and ‘Glass Onion’

For years I’ve been in a Facebook group for fans of the ‘70s detective series…

Pa Ranjith’s Tamil Film ‘Natchathiram Nagargiradhu’ is a Meditation on Love, Gender, Caste and Oppression

Tamil film “Natchathiram Nagargiradhu” (The Star is Moving ) shows a theatre troupe grappling with…

Pasmanda v Ashraf Muslims: How the Left’s Anti-Hindu Crusade Ignores Entrenched Caste Divides in Minority Religions

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant’s January 24th press conference on the dangers of caste discrimination…

Reasons to Watch ‘Pathaan’: The Molten Gold of SRK’s Magic Might Yet Hold All the Broken Pieces of India Together

My five reasons to watch “Pathaan.” The “paisa-vasool” Bollywood movie genre is back with a…

My Wife, Lekha: She Faced Each Day Like Samuel Beckett Did, Saying to Herself, ‘I Can’t Go On. I’ll Go On’

Confronting death is a painful experience, particularly when it happens to someone who has been…

Falling in Love With a Grump: It’s a Pleasure to Watch Tom Hanks in ‘A Man Called Otto’

Otto is a palindrome — spelled the same forward and backward like Malayalam, kayak, level,…

The Dhanush Predicament: Green Card Backlog Adversely Affects Career Choices of Young Indian Legal Immigrants

As the new year begins, new legislatures convene in state legislative chambers across the country…

My Mom is a Blonde With Blue Eyes: Identity Crisis and Other Struggles of Indian Children Raised in White American Families

Americans adopting children from India is not new. In 2021, India sent 245 children, the…

I No Longer Think a Hero is a Handsome Bollywood Actor. I’ve Grown Up to Realize a Hero is One Who Cares

When my son was about eight years old, I complimented him on his new shirt…