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...
by Shyamal Roy | Oct 11, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Travel
While I think of America as my father, India will always be my mother. That is why I have traveled in India whenever I can to refill my spiritual cups. Like any other Bengali, Puja time rekindles the travel spirit and some years ago I decided to visit Gangotri in the...
by Jyoti Minocha | Oct 11, 2019 | *Slider - Latest, Books, Lifestyle
The Oscar winning movie The Shape of Water (2017), has a scene where a merman and his human paramour swim in a bathroom filled to the ceiling with water; her hair streams like elegant seaweed and his fins expand in a glorious, orchestrated dance – a dreamscape...
