Ever since the coronavirus pandemic began, I have been thinking of my mother. If ever there was a person who was ready for an epidemic, it was my mother. She was the FDA and the CDC combined. Her advice on health matters was prescient. Fearing cancer, she refused to...
Until recently, American elections used to evoke in me, not angst, but wonder. When Bill Clinton ran for president, I watched The Man from Hope, a documentary about his life, over and over again, feeling inspired by the story of a boy who rose from an abusive...
It is said that we are currently living in the era of ‘Peak TV’ – as in ‘peak oil’, a concept developed in the 1950’s by industry experts who predicted that the production of petroleum would peak around 1970, after which the world economy...
My faith in the publishing industry began to erode the day I read Gone Girl, a book hyped as the thriller of the century, not to mention a feminist manifesto. With its violent, sadistic, and unbelievable narrator, was this the best American literature had to offer?...
At the age of eleven, I discovered nature, when, for the first time in my life, I was taken on a summer vacation. My aunt worked as a nurse at the Tuberculosis Hospital outside of Pune, and there I roamed the windswept landscape, wading into the confluence of the...
