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...
by Rajesh C.Oza | Aug 12, 2018 | Books
MAGIC SEEDS by V.S. Naipaul. Knopf, 2004. Hardcover, 288 pages. $25.00. Magic Seeds is the second half of Half a Life, V.S. Naipaul’s novel written just before he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. Although the two books together do not stitch...
by Rajesh C.Oza | Jul 12, 2018 | Books
Perhaps all heroes are empathic. To test that hypothesis, let’s first define hero and empathy. Hero (as defined by Merriam-Webster Dictionary): “a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength or ability; an illustrious...
