Vote!
You’ve all met Mr. and Mrs. Immigrant India. They’re well educated, have family values, work hard, pay their taxes, obey laws and own a home in the best
Award Winning
The Clear Choice
In less than five weeks our nation will elect its next president and recent polls suggest that a Trump Presidency is a very real prospect. It is frightening to
Does History Matter?
Does history matter? Or shall we all decide to forget about this vast world altogether, numbed by our gadgets and greedy little worlds of meaningless consumptio
Erasing the Accent
In the late seventies, Mumbai-born Persis Khambatta cried after she had to lose her lovely, beauty-queen locks so she could play the role of Lieutenant Ilia, th
It’s the Race Card, People!
When Meryl Streep announced that after all, we’re all from Africa, in response to the lack of color in the Oscar nominating panel, she was being completely ac
No Country for Gray People
Several years ago, when I was nearly fifty years old, I had gone from Delhi to one of the smaller towns to visit my extended family. I hadn’t seen them for so
Are You One of Those?
Late one snowy evening, three girls and three boys were sitting in a New York dorm room casually conversing over insomnia cookies. All was cozy till the boys, i
How Jay-Z Trumped Modi
Let’s wrap our heads around this. India conducted the largest elections—814,500,000 people had a ballot. Voter turnout hit a stunning 66.38%—More than 500
Passion and Paranoia
“How do you write?” asked an audience member at a recent book discussion at Stanford. Tobias Wolff, professor of literature at Stanford and author of severa
100 Years After the Nobel Prize
Like many Indian parents, my parents introduced a few of Tagore’s poems as an example of great poetry. I vaguely recall that the poems I read were about natur
Sandberged and Prototyped
Dear Sheryl Sandberg, I do sometimes hate you. Not for your success in the business world, not for your success in the book-writing world; neither for your imme
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