by Raji Pillai | Nov 10, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Books
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of Forest of Enchantment, was in conversation with Vandana Kumar, publisher of India Currents at Kepler’s bookstore in Menlo Park, California on November 5, 2019. The Forest of Enchantment is Divakaruni’s 19th book. I last attended a...
by Jyoti Minocha | Nov 3, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Books
Fatima Bhutto’s novel The Runaways about the lonely, disenfranchised path that leads a young person to Jihad comes from a tragic, knowing place. Her aunt, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated in 2007 by a fifteen year-old suicide bomber called Bilal, who detonated his...
by Manuela Gomez Rhine | Nov 1, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Books
A mother travels from Karachi, Pakistan, to visit her adult daughter living in Houston. Laila has made this difficult journey to the U.S., in the months following 9/11, because her estranged daughter, Yasmeen, is divorcing her American husband and she has yet to meet...
by Nirupama V. | Oct 27, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Books, Features
Chitra Divakaruni Banerjee’s book The Forest of Enchantments is a retelling of the Ramayana with Sita at the center of the tale. The plot of the epic tale – a living, breathing organic story that looms large over the collective Indian mind has as its main tenet...
by Raji Pillai | Oct 16, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Books
Quichotte, the book: My first encounter with Don Quixote was as a child, in an Illustrated Classics book. On the cover was a picture of the knight on a horse, holding a spear, with a windmill looming in the background. After leafing through the pages, I remember being...
by Nihhal Karnik | Oct 12, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Healthy Life, Lifestyle
Let’s talk about one of my favorite meals….a delicious plate of nothing. Prep time is zero minutes and physical and mental health benefits are unlimited. Nihaal Karnik, a third year medical student at Ross University School of Medicine, writes about his personal...
