by Nandini Patwardhan | Jul 19, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Community
At the time the Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon in 1969, I was a 10-year-old schoolgirl in Bombay (as it was then called). Even though I lived far away from the United States, and this was well before the advent of broadcast television, I knew of and was...
by Nandini Patwardhan | May 7, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Reflections, Views
I grew up during the 1960s in Mumbai. I lived with my parents, two siblings and my maternal grandparents. Our home was small — four rooms, each ten feet square, in a chawl tenement. The living room doubled as a bedroom at night. The home was too small for...
by Nandini Patwardhan | Apr 23, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Opinion
Given the recent college admissions scandals, I am struck by their similarity to “Bachelor,” the popular American television show. The twenty-odd young women vie to be picked by the Bachelor, who is seen as the “catch.” The pursuit of admission to ivy league colleges...
