by Jaya Padmanabhan | Aug 6, 2017 | Now & Then
Have you heard of the success sequence? Even if you haven’t, you might have unwittingly been adhering to the sequence. It’s a social rationalization theory given new life by a study published in the American Enterprise Institute and Institute for Family Studies by W....
by Sarita S. | Aug 1, 2017 | Last Word
I saw Monsoon Wedding, the new musical, with a group of Indian women friends recently. We laughed at familiar idiomatic expressions, translated, at times awkwardly, from Hindi into English. We got nostalgic listening to old melodies. I even got teary-eyed when a...
by Nirupama | Aug 1, 2017 | Editorial
This month we celebrate the seventieth birthday of Indian Independence by saluting the flag of saffron, white and green. A generation who sacrificed their lives for freedom is no more. Newspaper articles and scratchy documentary reels remain. In these historical...
by Nirupama | Jul 12, 2017 | Editorial
Tech giants Google, Twitter and Reddit have joined several activist groups and the ACLU to stage a day of protest today against net neutrality rules. Given here is a link to submit a public filing on this issue. Net neutrality affects each one of us and it is vital to...
by Jaya Padmanabhan | Jul 10, 2017 | Now & Then
My aunt passed away recently. She was 88 years old. She was born at a time when India was gestating her freedom from British occupation and Pakistan was not yet a fetus. My aunt arrived into a world of Hitler, Stalin, Tamaka Giichi, Ramsay MacDonald, Kemal Ataturk and...
by Kalpana M. | Jul 8, 2017 | Desi Lens
I suppose the block party last July at the end of our road was a success even though everyone in attendance knew that one family—let’s call them the Chens—treated the front yard of their home as if it were a dumping ground, totally unmindful of how their home was an...
