My Last Goodbye to My Mother Was on Zoom
Last June, my mother passed away. She didn’t die of Covid, although Covid had a firm, strangulating grip on New Delhi at the time. She died of old age at nine
Desi Voices
Graduates Learn The Perfect Lesson In A Pandemic – Life Is Always An Imperfect Experiment
Desi Roots, Global Wings – a monthly column focused on the Indian immigrant experience. The world today may seem uncertain and scary but that is how it has a
I Walk With My ForeMothers When I Wear My Streedhan
Desi Roots, Global Wings – a monthly column focused on the Indian immigrant experience On Mother’s Day, as on all others, I was thinking of my mother and g
Mother Says So…
A mother’s love is that divine gift that enables a child to do their best. Mother is not a noun but a verb that personifies unselfish love. We are all conne
Dance Lessons Bring Romance to a Midlife Marriage
As a single mother with a teenage daughter, when I decided to marry a widower with a daughter, I knew what I was getting into. Or so I thought. From one half of
Excavating History
I recently returned from a six-week sojourn in Mumbai. It is the city where I grew up and where my family still lives. In fact, my “family home” is where my
Finding Freddie
Center: Freddie Mercury at St. Peter's School The halls of St. Peter’s School
Your Digital Future Is Being Built In The Lab
Twenty five years from now, the Autonomous Intelligence and deep learning created world, which is being shaped in the labs as we speak, will be one that is no l
Bombay Bus
I rolled the large American Tourister bag to the bus stop in Ganeshpuri, my two daughters in tow. The roof of the State Transport bus to Mumbai was piled high w
House #152
It was their magnum opus. She didn’t major in the creative arts. Fresh out of high school she was tossed on stage, with her composer. Mom seemed to have it al
Pizza and Molagapodi
This article was first published on August 1, 2003. I had barely learned to walk on the streets of the United States when I got my first job. Having seen over 3
Hibiscus
The sight of a ruby red hibiscus flower takes me back to my childhood. To a certain garden in Dharwar (in Karnataka, India), where this splendid flower grew in
