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Category: Perspectives
It’s May, and another batch of students has committed to the colleges where they will matriculate this fall.
Students applying to college this year have done so amidst the hypocritical politicking of would-be leaders. Rick Santorum (B.A., M.B.A., J.D.—though you wouldn’t know ...
Mark Twain once said, “A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.”Gossip has long been dismissed as little more than background noise and blather ...
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]
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 ...
I gave myself a real birthday present this year. I got off Facebook.
Before you roll your eyes and turn the page (click away? finger swipe?), let me assure you that what follows is not a litany of complaints about Facebook’s (no) privacy policies, the aesthetics of Timeline, the ...
In life, we constantly create thought shafts of either pain or joy. Once you create a shaft of pain, you try to break it. In the same way, if you create a shaft of joy, you try to elongate it. But you don’t understand that you can neither ...
The English lexicon has many words, like curry, that were adopted from India, which reflect how language is not immune from global influences.
It’s May, and another batch of students has committed to the colleges where they will matriculate this fall.
Students applying to college this year have done so amidst the hypocritical politicking of would-be leaders. Rick Santorum (B.A., M.B.A., J.D.—though you wouldn’t know ...
Mark Twain once said, “A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.”Gossip has long been dismissed as little more than background noise and blather ...
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]
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 ...
I gave myself a real birthday present this year. I got off Facebook.
Before you roll your eyes and turn the page (click away? finger swipe?), let me assure you that what follows is not a litany of complaints about Facebook’s (no) privacy policies, the aesthetics of Timeline, the ...
In life, we constantly create thought shafts of either pain or joy. Once you create a shaft of pain, you try to break it. In the same way, if you create a shaft of joy, you try to elongate it. But you don’t understand that you can neither ...
The English lexicon has many words, like curry, that were adopted from India, which reflect how language is not immune from global influences.
