The Boy Refugee is a seminal work, a one of a kind book by Dr. Khawaja Azimuddin, a well-known gastrointestinal surgeon from Houston, Texas. One could ask why this fact is important to mention in a book review, but the answer is clearly within its pages. This book is...
Simplicity is not simple. It takes a lot of thought and effort to condense complex concepts to a simple, practical, and easy to follow recipe for getting to “contentment” or “happiness”. By distilling the essence of ancient Indian philosophy, practicing it himself,...
Poetry as Sanctuary – A column where we explore poetry as a means of expression for voices of the South Asian Diaspora. Poetry was never something I imagined to become this significant to me, it was not even a sliver of a dream of an unimagined future. I spent the...
The answer is NO if “normal” means “status quo ante” or going back to what we were before. The answer is neither disappointing nor a surprise. It is absurd to expect something to stay standstill in an endlessly rotating planet called Earth which is somersaulting in...
A response to the previous Letter to India Currents. Dear Vandana Kumar, Black Lives Matter, also relates to our own sordid chapter in the history of the Indian diaspora. For those of us who arrived in the fifties, sixties and decades before, have experienced the...
