We gave up cable TV over seven years ago and thanks to sites like Netflix, Amazon Video, and HBO Go, we haven’t missed it at all. But, the real treat that resulted from cutting the cord is that it pushed me to seek information and entertainment on sites such as...
I recently returned from a six-week sojourn in Mumbai. It is the city where I grew up and where my family still lives. In fact, my “family home” is where my mother grew up. The small four-hundred square foot chawl home has witnessed more than five generations of my...
Desi Roots, Global Wings “Ethnic Pride” is defined as the positive feeling that fills a person’s heart because of her being a member of a particular ethnic group. Even while members of certain groups and cultures are exuberant in expression of their ethnic pride, a...
Recently, I read an article in Yoga Journal magazine titled “What’s the Difference Between Cultural Appropriation and Cultural Appreciation?” It set me thinking deeply about the concept of cultural appropriation. The same topic had been brought up when...
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...
