Pavithra Mohan | Oct 20, 2005 | Features, Youth
My parents grudgingly paid up the $5,000 and packed me off to Spain along with my three pieces of luggage—a violin, a backpack, and a pull-on. I was going halfway across the world to Spain with my orchestra, the Philharmonic division of the San Jose Youth Symphony. We...
Mahin Ibrahim | Sep 20, 2005 | Features, Youth
So why can’t I? This phrase—“I love you”—is as foreign to me as kissing scenes in Bollywood flicks. It has not been a part of my world for 21 years and I don’t see it making a splashy entrance any time soon. I am not referring to the “I love you” ardently uttered in...
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan | Aug 22, 2005 | Features, Youth
My grandmother once said that India is the best place to be a woman. She cited the familial support network available to pregnant women in India, the respect accorded to mothers, the value placed on femininity, even the way the humidity makes a woman’s skin glow and...
Pavithra Mohan | Jul 27, 2005 | Features, Youth
“Are those colored balloons?” “No, not really, Dad.” “Are they candy?” “Well, maybe. To some people.” My dad removed his glasses and peered closely at the image of pretty rings on my bookmark. “Then what are they?” “They’re condoms, Dad. You should know.”...
Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan | Jun 27, 2005 | Features, Youth
Kaavya Viswanathan is a 17-year-old Harvard freshman with a $500,000, two-book publishing deal from Little Brown and Company of the Time Warner Group. She is the youngest person ever to be represented by the William Morris agency. Amazing, right? Not even old enough...
Sidharth Muralidhar | May 27, 2005 | Features, Youth
“And the twice told fields of infancy, That his tears burned my cheeks and his heart moved in mine …” “Poem in October” by Dylan Thomas, written on his 30th birthday, one year before his death...
