by Vandana Kumar | Nov 29, 1998 | Features, General
by Vandana Kumar | Mar 2, 1998 | Features, General
by Vandana Kumar | Feb 3, 1998 | Features, General
Once upon a time a girl lived with her uncle in northern India. He was a famous wrier. The girl was in awe of her uncle’s creativity and position. She looked up to him. One day her uncle was asked “Why is it that after Rabindranath Tagore, no other author of that...
by Jyotsna Sreenivasan | Oct 1, 1994 | Features, General
Abraham Verghese is a medical doctor who has just published a book, My Own Country, about his experiences with AIDS patients in rural Johnson City, Tennessee. Through the process of caring for his patients, Verghese chronicles, he learns not only about AIDS and how it...
by Cornelia Bagg | Feb 1, 1990 | Features, General
Gypsy. Noun. Member of a wandering people of Hindu origin with dark skin and hair living often by basket-making, horse-dealing, fortune-telling, etc., and speaking a language related to Hindi; person resembling or living like a Gypsy; from the word Egyptian, from the...
by Sujata Desai | Jan 1, 1990 | Features, General
Once upon a time, the world was in a state of complete uncontrolled chaos. The legend goes that the demigods and the sages approached Brahma, the creator of the universe, and requested him to create a new Veda which would simultaneously entertain as well as reach, so...
