The Man Who Would Be UN Secretary-General
Shashi Tharoor has a fantasy. It is to follow the Indian cricket team on a tour of the Caribbean. But chances are, this googly-on-golden-sands pipe dream is goi
Sandip Roy-Chowdury
Coming Out Coming Home
Gay Pride was just over in San Francisco. Not surprisingly, on her flight back to Los Angeles, Rashmi Choksey found herself surrounded by gay people. When she g
From Dotbusters to Cool Dots
When Radha pushed the cart out of the exit door, the DotBuster with the barrel chest and GOTCHA T-shirt—apparently the gang's leader—approached her as if
Children’s Classic or Colonial Fantasy
I am glad I come from that vanishing generation which actually read books instead of waiting for the movie. Otherwise I might have thought that The Jungle B
Junglee Girl
A suspicious old grandmother laboriously climbing up the stairs to see what mischief her grandchildren are up to, a maid shelling peas, a schoolgirls' game of L
A Pot Melting
Bharati Mukherjee came up the street, a New York Tunes tucked under her arm. The front page announced that Toni Morrison had won the Nobel Prize for literatu
