by Jeanne E. Fredriksen | Jan 20, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Books, Lifestyle
Language is fluid, and anyone who has successfully made it to adulthood has experienced slang growing into accepted usage and accepted usage shifting as new verbal practices infiltrate conversation and the written word. Such is the conundrum India has encountered...
by Pramila Venkateswaran | Jan 12, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Books, Lifestyle
Beginning Karmic Chanting with an epigraph about temporality is apt, as Sonnet Mondal attempts to capture in his book his fleeting insights about the world and human experiences. In the chiseled cadences of his lyrical poetry, the ephemeral is imaged as “the skyline...
by Preeti Hay | Jan 6, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Books, Lifestyle
William Dalrymple is one of Britain’s finest and most extensive historians on India in the contemporary age. He is the bestselling author of many books such as The White Mughuls: The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapucinski Prize...
by Geetika Pathania Jain | Dec 16, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Books
Anita Felicelli’s protagonist in her new novel, Chimerica, is having a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day when she first meets the talking lemur. Maya Ramesh’s husband has just moved out with the kids. Her ethical lapses have come in the way of her chances of...
by Manikya Veena | Dec 15, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Fiction
I saw the man for the first time in Budapest on the Széchenyi Bridge. The chain bridge connected the western and eastern parts of what was once two cities, Buda and Pest. We exchanged a smile, as any two people might. Standing a few feet apart, we saw the Parliament...
by Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney | Dec 12, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Lifestyle
Aila Malik just turned 40. Instead of a traditional party to usher in the new decade, she decided to do something different. She threw a Community Kindness virtual party. She “invited” her guests to complete an act of kindness (big or small) and post it on social...
