Alone in the Desert with Brahma
MahaMementoMori: Fables Beyond COVID’s Warning Wall – A monthly series that gently reminds us to remember what life would be like if we succumbed to a pan
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Ganesha’s MahaMementoMori
MahaMementoMori: Fables Beyond COVID's Warning Wall – The first in a monthly series that gently reminds us to remember what life would be like if we succumb
Homeland Elegies: A Clash of Civilizations
Ayad Akhtar’s novel Homeland Elegies is autobiographical as much as it is a work of fiction. There is traumatic truth here in the tension between fiction an
Whereabouts: Delicate Threads of a Tapestry
Jhumpa Lahiri’s first book, a short story collection titled Interpreter of Maladies, seemed to come out of nowhere. My friend Steve's mother gifted the boo
Bowled, But Not Out: Woman of the Match
Let’s open with full disclosure: Over thirty years of reviewing books, I have pretentiously emphasized high-brow literature. My one snobbish review that stray
Third Eye Rising: A Pantheon of Displacement Stories
Some 15 years ago I wrote in these pages a review titled “An Omnibus Repast of the Century Past.” Yes, in those distant days, our faithful magazine was pr
Janm Bhoomi, Karm Bhoomi, Matra Bhoomi: This Fragile Place Called Home
Whether you plod through Barack Obama’s 751-page political memoir The Promised Land (burnished with glossy photos) or enthuse through Annie Zaidi’s 159-page
Dear PostModern Gandhi: What Is the Right Response to Coronavirus?
Dear PostModern Gandhiji: A decade ago, when I was a first-year medical student, I worried that modern medicine and pharmacology were based on animal products.
Coronavirus to Karunavirus
Feeling like the “wrong kind of doctor” (I have a doctorate in organization change), I initially felt helplessly inadequate in my response to the coronaviru
Rapid Renewal
With the entire world seemingly off the highways and on WebEx or Zoom, I got to thinking if there is some good that will come out of this pandemic, a silver lin
Lota in the Loo
Winston Churchill famously said, “Never let a crisis go to waste.” But even during the most desperate times, Winnie’s wit carried the day. So perhaps to
Settled & Unsettled: A Reflection in Migration’s Mirror
Literary writing is a mirror of sorts; it enables you to see yourself in its pages. For the first 20 years of my life, I had never read a book that reflecte
