by Jaya Padmanabhan | Mar 22, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Books, Lifestyle
How do you write a book about loss—a loss that’s so propulsive as to ravage the notion of home, country and identity? What do you put in it, and what do you leave out? What message will this work deliver and how does it answer the questions of the moment? In “The...
by Nidhi Kirpal Jayadevan | Mar 16, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Books, Lifestyle
A decade and a half ago, I made the brave move to America. Although I spoke English and was well-versed with American culture, nonetheless, I found myself in the midst of a transcultural identity crisis. As Jhumpa Lahiri aptly put it, “I felt intense pressure to be...
by Madhu Raghavan | Mar 9, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Books, Lifestyle
“I start my day choosing happiness and being in the moment, as the mystery of the moment opens up to me” writes Geetanjali Arunkumar in her book, ‘You are the cake’. Such revelations that she arrived at through travails of illness and loneliness are what she shares in...
by Devi S Laskar | Mar 2, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Books
The Royal Abduls depicts the cost of the anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, through the lens of an Indian-American family in post 9/11 America. The novel tells the story of eleven-year-old Omar and his aunt Amina, an evolutionary biologist who moves near her...
by Mytrae Meliana | Feb 26, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Books, Lifestyle
Prologue 1985 I will return to what I love. To music. To Evan. To my life in graduate school at Chapel Hill. To Beethoven’s Opus 110, Brahms’ Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Haydn, and Mozart’s Concerto in C Major. To my graduate recital and concerto competition...
by Neha Kirpal | Feb 24, 2020 | *Slider - Latest, Articles, Lifestyle, Travel
While one of the highlights of President Trump’s recent visit to India was a stop at the enchanting Taj Mahal—I happened to discover a whole new dimension of the timeless city which is its home. While most visitors (especially ones from neighbouring Delhi) make...
