Will Life Ever Be The Same Again?
Traveling in New York recently, my family took a our bus to see the sights. The garrulous tour guide pointed out the various landmarks till the bus trundled dow
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A Year Later
Q Although it’s been a year since the Sept. 11 attacks, I still don’t feel safe and normal the way I used to. I worry about what will happen next and wake u
A Reformed Conformist
Here it is. The big, bad truth. And I pray, be gentle, for I haven’t admitted this to anyone before. My very first CD was Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little
Am I Home?
The other day I was reading a piece in the local newspaper written by an Indian woman, who’s an émigré to the U.S. She was describing her first couple of ye
Two Melodies Together
Despite stereotypes, India, like America, is a country that feeds and nourishes creative individuality. Just as Americans have been inspired by the archetype of
Small Business is BIG
When Sonal Shah arrived in the U.S. in 1986, she could not have imagined the stir she was going to cause. 2002 has been a good year for her; she was awarded the
Patriot Games
The Legend of Bhagat Singh Director: Rajkumar Santoshi. Players: Ajay Devgan, Sushant Singh, Raj Babbar, Farida Jalal, Amrita Rao. Theatrical release with Engli
A Family Business of Sarods
When Amjad Ali Khan and his sons Amaan and Ayaan Ali Bangash take the stage, they have seven generations of music flowing through their fingers into the sarods.
Visa Changes
Q My visa status has changed from F1 to H- 1B. My parents have green cards and had filed an I-130 petition for me. If I go outside the U.S. and try to get my pa
Tragedy and Transformation
A Breath of Fresh Air by Amulya Malladi. Ballantine Books. 2002. Hardcover. $23.95. 214 pages. Fiction. On Dec. 3 1984, the leaves of the trees in Bhopal, India
The Scent of Blue Magnolias
Malini, I’d like you to meet someone,” Nilesh was smiling down at her where she was sitting on a sofa with a plate of half-finished biryani precariously bal
Suspended!
When my phone rang the other day in the middle of the afternoon, I was alarmed. For a parent like me, a message from school can only mean one thing: my child is
