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Category: Last Word by Sarita Savate
A flower growing on a bush was the amazing discovery of my childhood. We lived in the old city then, where flowers were wilted things wrapped in leaves and sold outside of temples. Or they were strings of jasmine or chrysanthemums draped into women’s hair.
They were not objects ...
There is a a debate raging among American feminists about whether the show Girls on HBO is good or bad for the cause. Girls depicts four white young women and their romantic and sexual partners in New York City. Even though some members of the media have pointed out ...
I wake up in the morning and wander on to the terrace to watch the fishing boats heading home after a night on the ocean. As I put a pot of tea on, birds start singing in the palms and tamarinds all around me. I lie in my hammock, watching ...
Childhood is a fleeting time of freedom, playfulness, joy, and an absence from responsibility; it is a shame Tiger Mom has made it into such a purgatory
Six billion dollars were washed down the drain in the election of 2012, but the American public taught the corporate interests and the spin-masters a lesson; that elections cannot be bought. That truth does prevail. That a party which plans to ban abortion and contraception, a party that wants ...
In this election cycle, I finally lost it. I cannot stomach American politics any more. There was a time when I used to relish it, when I used to like watching debates and discussing policy. No more. The current election cycle has finally broken my back.
What happened?
The ...
Jon Stewart labeled the Democratic National Convention, “Hope and Change—II.” Larry David, the creator of Seinfeld, quipped that Obama’s 2012 campaign platform is “Less Bad is Better Than More Bad” or, alternatively, “We Could Have Done Worse.”
I can see where these two comedians, whom I admire ...
Once every four years, I complain about television coverage of the Olympics. This year, when National Public Radio (NPR) reported that National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was trying a different approach, I was hoping not to have to complain. But tuning the dial, I found the same hyperbole, the same ...
When I was a little girl, I loved adventure stories. There was a Marathi magazine named Chandoba, which means "moon," and in this magazine, I discovered a faraway, magical world. The first time I read about Sindbad, I was mesmerized. The magazine had colorful illustrations and I remember one ...
A flower growing on a bush was the amazing discovery of my childhood. We lived in the old city then, where flowers were wilted things wrapped in leaves and sold outside of temples. Or they were strings of jasmine or chrysanthemums draped into women’s hair.
They were not objects ...
There is a a debate raging among American feminists about whether the show Girls on HBO is good or bad for the cause. Girls depicts four white young women and their romantic and sexual partners in New York City. Even though some members of the media have pointed out ...
I wake up in the morning and wander on to the terrace to watch the fishing boats heading home after a night on the ocean. As I put a pot of tea on, birds start singing in the palms and tamarinds all around me. I lie in my hammock, watching ...
Childhood is a fleeting time of freedom, playfulness, joy, and an absence from responsibility; it is a shame Tiger Mom has made it into such a purgatory
Six billion dollars were washed down the drain in the election of 2012, but the American public taught the corporate interests and the spin-masters a lesson; that elections cannot be bought. That truth does prevail. That a party which plans to ban abortion and contraception, a party that wants ...
In this election cycle, I finally lost it. I cannot stomach American politics any more. There was a time when I used to relish it, when I used to like watching debates and discussing policy. No more. The current election cycle has finally broken my back.
What happened?
The ...
Jon Stewart labeled the Democratic National Convention, “Hope and Change—II.” Larry David, the creator of Seinfeld, quipped that Obama’s 2012 campaign platform is “Less Bad is Better Than More Bad” or, alternatively, “We Could Have Done Worse.”
I can see where these two comedians, whom I admire ...
Once every four years, I complain about television coverage of the Olympics. This year, when National Public Radio (NPR) reported that National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was trying a different approach, I was hoping not to have to complain. But tuning the dial, I found the same hyperbole, the same ...
When I was a little girl, I loved adventure stories. There was a Marathi magazine named Chandoba, which means "moon," and in this magazine, I discovered a faraway, magical world. The first time I read about Sindbad, I was mesmerized. The magazine had colorful illustrations and I remember one ...
