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Last Man Standing

An action packed 2012 Republican primary season

An Assimilated Cuisine

My grand mom was a great story teller. She would narrate her childhood stories under the moonlight, on hot summer evenings in Chennai. Along with the stories, she fed us balls of rice mixed with molakuttal (vegetable stew with fresh coconut), appalam and pickle. This was the highlight of ...

Mother's Day Tribute

Everyone says I resemble my mother. I used to look at myself in the mirror, and try to find her.

Wind Beneath Our Wings

A Mother’s Day tribute

Synchronicity: Intention to Manifestation

Facilitating a virtual meeting between two Nobel Peace Laureates

Incentivizing Math and Science Education

U.S. competitiveness hinges on motivating more students into tech education

Perils and Pleasures of Living Alone in India

Just come back any time with madam to approve the kitchen design,” the beaming modular kitchen consultant told me. I explained patiently, again, that there was no madam available and that I would be approving my own modular kitchen, cabinet colours and all. He nodded and said, “But we ...

That Bungalow in Chennai

bungalow—n1. A one-storey house, sometimes with an attic 2. (in India) a one-storey house, usually surrounded by a veranda [from Hindi bangla (house) of the Bengal type]

Voices

Dressing Different Thank you for writing such a wonderful article. (When in Rome?, April ’12) I respect your choice to wear Indian clothes to work, but I feel I have to be a “Roman when in Rome.” I am a second generation US born/US raised Indian American from ...

Do You Work?

Soon after I had my twins, I actively sought the order and system of a day job, something that could mitigate the demands of relentless motherhood. Every morning it seemed to me like I was leaving a battlefront, at home, to enter a ceasefire zone, at work. But, as ...
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