by L Iyengar | Jul 11, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Cover Story, Health & Wellness, Healthy Life
Thinking and writing about the complexity of mental health issues has jogged several memories. When I was in graduate school a fellow student tried to take his own life. He had a brilliant academic record, was doing well at school, and was Indian. Fortunately, a...
by Bela Desai | Jun 11, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, People, Profiles
Vruksh ma bij Tu, Bij ma vruksh Tu, Jou patantaro e ja paase. You are the seed within a tree, You are the tree within a seed If I look for distinctions, then that is all I will see. Narsinh Mehta was a 15th century poet-saint and exponent of Bhakti (worship) form of...
by L Iyengar | Jun 11, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Cover Story, Features, Heritage Arts
It was 627 A.D. when Hsuan-Tsang, a Buddhist monk, left China under the cover of night and headed westward, to seek out original Buddhist texts and teachings. He was dissatisfied with the contradictions that he found in several schools of Buddhism extant in China at...
by Sujata Srinivasan | Jun 4, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Features, People
New York-based pianist Charu Suri’s debut album Lollipops for Breakfast is a sugary concoction of the whimsical and playful, daring and irreverent, soulful and authentic. If you were walking down the street with an iPod plugged in your ear, the title composition...
by Rasana Atreya | May 21, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Features, Not For Profit, Voices
Dr. Rukmini Banerji, CEO of Pratham, is in the San Francisco Bay Area for a conference at Stanford on global poverty. I met Dr. Banerji in San Jose during her visit. First, a few facts about Pratham: Pratham started off in the slums of Mumbai, 1995. The educational...
by L Iyengar | May 21, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Cover Story
Mindy Kaling, the famous actor-producer in the hit series – The Office – stated on Twitter “I just signed up! All my fellow South Asians, let’s make a difference here – it’s so easy, and one day it could be you or someone you love.” She was referring...
