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...
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...
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...
