Dear PostModern Gandhi: What Is the Right Response to Coronavirus?
Dear PostModern Gandhiji: A decade ago, when I was a first-year medical student, I worried that modern medicine and pharmacology were based on animal products.
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Ethical Challenges of Artificial Intelligence
AI is widely misunderstood and still too rudimentary for us to be worrying. But it’s not too soon to contemplate the ethical implications of intelligent machi
I’m With the Yang Gang: Volunteering with the Andrew Yang Campaign
A compelling thread of history is the power of ideas and their ability to shape the world around us. The power of ideas could not be more evident than in the Si
I Have Been Eating Ice Cream for Breakfast Since the PG&E Announcement
I answered the call from an unfamiliar phone number. The voice at the other end threatened to turn the lights off on me for 5 to 7 days. I thought it was a hoax
Amma, is Thatha a Ghost?
Ever so often I'm caught off guard by a question posed by my child. It has the quality of a zap to my system - like that of a rusty car battery being jump start
Our Almost Perfect Family
" I cannot find Jai!” I wailed to my husband. “What kind of a mother am I? I cannot find my own son!” We were standing in front of a wall of student artwo
Israel-Palestine Conflict: A New Understanding
Traveling to Israel changed me. In the span of eight days, I toured holy sites in Jerusalem and the Sea of Galilee, took part in Hanukkah festivities, and spoke
Rendezvous With A Renunciant: Conversation With Monk Om Swami
Om Swami is not your typical monk. Be it the flowing elegant robes, the crisp answers to questions - mundane or mystical, the sharp sense of humor that l
Beware the Golu Pictures are Coming: The Surreal Wives of New Jersey
Come each autumn, armies of clay demigods in Star Ledger wraps, break hibernation and rise like a set of rudely awoken cross swarm of mummies. They rise from Ru
A Weekend with a Modern Guru
Sadhguru...does the word conjure up the image of a bearded gentleman sitting in the woods, cross-legged and observing silence? If it does, then you will be righ
Entrepreneurs Should Use Tech for Humanity
Learn all you can from the entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley but don’t become like them. This was my advice to a group of 91 students who are visiting here on a
On Feminism
It has been eight months since I started my MFA at Bennington College. In the last eight months I have cooked half a dozen meals. I pack my children lunches and
