The Price of Living Long
As we celebrate more birthdays, and the number of people living to be ninety or even hundred is no longer uncommon, behind the celebration lurks the painful rem
Lakshmi Mani
Finding Youth in a Retirement Home
I live at Ingersoll Place, an assisted living facility in Niskayuna, New York. I pay a monthly rent for a one bedroom apartment with three closets and a kitchen
An Odyssey into Jazz
Indian Americans are scaling new heights in the performing arts; participating and interpreting mainstream music in distinctive ways. Vijay Iyer is one such art
The Last Honest Man
After a collection of short stories, Between the Assassinations, Adiga comes back to the novel form, setting Last Man in Tower in Mumbai, where real estate can
A Daunting Enemy
Medicine,” says Mukherjee, “begins with storytelling. Patients tell stories to describe illness; doctors tell stories to understand it. Science tells its ow
A Crime Against Humanity
CHURCHILL’S SECRET WAR By Madhusree Mukerjee. Basic Books, New York. August, 2010. Hardcover. 368 pages. $28.95 1943 was an annus horribilis. I remember being
A Rich Tapestry of Characters
AS IT WAS WRITTEN, By Sujatha Hampton. Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 2010. 384 pages. $25.99 Sujatha Hampton’s debut novel, As It Was Wr
Extraordinary Sisterhood
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Ethics and Ambivalence
THE WEIGHT OF HEAVEN by Thrity Umrigar. New York: Harper Collins. April 2009. Hardcover. 384 pages. $25.99. In If Today Be Sweet, which I reviewed for India Cur
Generational Journey
Annu Subramanian teaches world literature and writing at a college preparatory school in Albany, New York. Her debut novel Waiting for the Perfect Dawntraces th
Murder for Manhood
THE WHITE TIGER by Aravind Adiga. New York: Free Press, October 2008. Paperback. 304 pages. $14.00. Aravind Adiga, a former correspondent for Time and The Finan
Captivating Man, Chilling Words
THE WORLD IS WHAT IT IS: THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF V.S. NAIPAUL by Patrick French. Alfred A. Knopf: New York. November 2008. 576 pages. $30. Writing the biogr
