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
Rajesh C.Oza
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
Do Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Still Matter?
Mahatma Gandhi, whose birthday is celebrated worldwide on October 2 (the International Day of Non-Violence), influenced many non-violent swaraj movements across
The Timelessness of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King
Mahatma Gandhi, whose birthday is celebrated worldwide on October 2 (the International Day of Non-Violence), influenced many non-violent swaraj movements across
The Meaning of Swaraj on Independence Day
Independence Day fireworks and parades aside, many young friends and family members express their despair and disappointment in the moral bankruptcy of those el
Kumbh Mela’s Sangam: A Confluence of Rivers, Rishis, and Rogues
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, a
