by Rajesh C.Oza | Aug 10, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Features, Voices
Independence Day fireworks and parades aside, many young friends and family members express their despair and disappointment in the moral bankruptcy of those elected to lead the world’s democracies by asking me, “Why vote?” I open with a Gandhian quote: “The very...
by Rajesh C.Oza | May 7, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Heritage Arts
A fortittuous consulting engagement in Pune enabled me to see family there as well as in Hyderabad, Calcutta, and the Hindi heartland of New Delhi, Allahabad, and Varanasi. Having had a recent shoulder surgery, my wife, Mangla, was on sabbatical leave from her...
by Rajesh C.Oza | Feb 11, 2019 | Books, Fiction, Lifestyle
The original title of this review was intended to reflect hope. I had already written the opening sentence of the review: “Be wary of dismissing the sweetness of one persimmon because a different one, albeit still a fruit called by the same name, has left a bitter...
by Rajesh C.Oza | Nov 6, 2018 | Cover Story
My parents moved from the South Asian subcontinent to the North American continent in the mid-1960s, never to again celebrate Diwali in the country of their birth. But over the past 50 + years, they’ve never failed to light diyas, do pujas, enjoy mithais, and...
by Rajesh C.Oza | Oct 3, 2018 | Books
For several decades I’ve been reviewing books, and I’ve had the distinct pleasure of reading them so that I could share them with the readers of India Currents. But with that joy came neglect; if a book’s publication date was more than a year or two old, I would skip...
