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Category: Perspectives
No, Obama is not a good negotiator
President Obama is a good orator, a good communicator, a visionary and a thinker. But he is just not good at striking a good deal with the opposition on matters of policy. He often compromises his advantage before the other side has shown ...
Your culture is killing girls,” a friend says as we take stock of the fresh vegetables at the Davis Farmers’ Market. I turn my attention away from the pile of snowy white cauliflower heads.
“Your culture is killing women,” she repeats, this time waving a well-manicured finger in my ...
Devesh Khatu ran the Boston Marathon twice—once in 2009 and once in 2010.This year he was not running the race. But ever since the bombs went off at America’s oldest and most iconic marathon, his phone and Facebook wall have been flooded with anxious messages.
Khatu ...
chutney—noun1. a pickle of Indian origin, made from fruit, vinegar, spices, sugar, etc: mangochutney2. a type of music popular in the Caribbean Asian community, much influenced by calypso [C19: from Hindi catni and Urdu chatni; of uncertain origin]First Known Use: 1813
Berkeley is a veritable mecca for yoga practitioners. Here, studios are (happily) more numerous than Starbucks, each offering its own specialty: Bikram, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Kundalini, Yin yoga, Hatha Flow, Vinyasa, “Hot Vinyasa,” restorative yoga, passive asanas, and something incredibly popular in my neighborhood called Forrest, which blends Hatha yoga ...
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 ...
Cheering Desi Women
The cover story by Geetika Pathania Jain was very well written (Mistress of Emotions, India Currents, April 2013) and The Reluctant Fundamentalist directed by Mira Nair is one heck of a good movie and possibly her most difficult film project to date.Ras Siddiqui, onlineRegarding the ...
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”—William Saroyan, Armenian American dramatist and author
No, Obama is not a good negotiator
President Obama is a good orator, a good communicator, a visionary and a thinker. But he is just not good at striking a good deal with the opposition on matters of policy. He often compromises his advantage before the other side has shown ...
Your culture is killing girls,” a friend says as we take stock of the fresh vegetables at the Davis Farmers’ Market. I turn my attention away from the pile of snowy white cauliflower heads.
“Your culture is killing women,” she repeats, this time waving a well-manicured finger in my ...
Devesh Khatu ran the Boston Marathon twice—once in 2009 and once in 2010.This year he was not running the race. But ever since the bombs went off at America’s oldest and most iconic marathon, his phone and Facebook wall have been flooded with anxious messages.
Khatu ...
chutney—noun1. a pickle of Indian origin, made from fruit, vinegar, spices, sugar, etc: mangochutney2. a type of music popular in the Caribbean Asian community, much influenced by calypso [C19: from Hindi catni and Urdu chatni; of uncertain origin]First Known Use: 1813
Berkeley is a veritable mecca for yoga practitioners. Here, studios are (happily) more numerous than Starbucks, each offering its own specialty: Bikram, Ashtanga, Iyengar, Kundalini, Yin yoga, Hatha Flow, Vinyasa, “Hot Vinyasa,” restorative yoga, passive asanas, and something incredibly popular in my neighborhood called Forrest, which blends Hatha yoga ...
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 ...
Cheering Desi Women
The cover story by Geetika Pathania Jain was very well written (Mistress of Emotions, India Currents, April 2013) and The Reluctant Fundamentalist directed by Mira Nair is one heck of a good movie and possibly her most difficult film project to date.Ras Siddiqui, onlineRegarding the ...
“While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”—William Saroyan, Armenian American dramatist and author
