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Category: Perspectives
When my mother was 19, she came to the United States on a scholarship to attend a small liberal arts college in upstate New York. The college had pledged to fund her tuition, room, and board, but apart from that, she had only $20 and a jacket purchased from ...
I am alone in my home.
The children are in college. My husband has vamoosed to the Far East.
For twenty-two years I have longed for this moment, the moment when I would be left completely, magically, ecstatically alone, when I would not have to cook, clean or talk to ...
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 ...
Yes, Romney’s resume qualifies him to lead the nation.Our nation’s founders in their infinite wisdom articulated the job description of a President in Article II, Sections 2 and 3 of the Constitution—simply put, he (and someday, hopefully a she) is the Head of the executive branch ...
An Emotional Hook
I definitely agree with Sarita Sarvate’s views on NBC’s lack of coverage on the 2012 London Olympics (India Currents, September 2012, Last Word by Sarita Sarvate—NBC, Shut the **** Up). However, I do not agree with her claim that NBC puts the Women’s Beach ...
"There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens.A time to give birth, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant.”—Ecclesiastes (The Preacher) 3:1-2
Dear Cousin Appu,
I am glad you enjoyed ...
Why do you run a marathon, participate in a bike race, play a tennis match or simply walk every day? Is exercise a way of life? An integrated goal is not to achieve perfection in a challenging workout, or accomplishing one grueling endeavor after another in search of fulfillment ...
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 ...
Yes, because the plagiarism charge was politically motivated.Fareed Zakakria made a mistake in his recent Time Magazine article “The Case for Gun Control” in the inadvertent usage of a paragraph similar to what Jill Lepore had in her piece in The New Yorker earlier on April 23rd.
It is ...
Paru Mami of my village was, to quote a Hindi saying, Garib ki Joru, Sab ki Bhabhi—poor man’s wife, everybody’s sister-in-law.
Her husband, Nanu Jyosyar’s income as an elementary school teacher was insufficient to feed the family of five daughters and one son. Though his ...
When my mother was 19, she came to the United States on a scholarship to attend a small liberal arts college in upstate New York. The college had pledged to fund her tuition, room, and board, but apart from that, she had only $20 and a jacket purchased from ...
I am alone in my home.
The children are in college. My husband has vamoosed to the Far East.
For twenty-two years I have longed for this moment, the moment when I would be left completely, magically, ecstatically alone, when I would not have to cook, clean or talk to ...
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 ...
Yes, Romney’s resume qualifies him to lead the nation.Our nation’s founders in their infinite wisdom articulated the job description of a President in Article II, Sections 2 and 3 of the Constitution—simply put, he (and someday, hopefully a she) is the Head of the executive branch ...
An Emotional Hook
I definitely agree with Sarita Sarvate’s views on NBC’s lack of coverage on the 2012 London Olympics (India Currents, September 2012, Last Word by Sarita Sarvate—NBC, Shut the **** Up). However, I do not agree with her claim that NBC puts the Women’s Beach ...
"There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens.A time to give birth, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot the plant.”—Ecclesiastes (The Preacher) 3:1-2
Dear Cousin Appu,
I am glad you enjoyed ...
Why do you run a marathon, participate in a bike race, play a tennis match or simply walk every day? Is exercise a way of life? An integrated goal is not to achieve perfection in a challenging workout, or accomplishing one grueling endeavor after another in search of fulfillment ...
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 ...
Yes, because the plagiarism charge was politically motivated.Fareed Zakakria made a mistake in his recent Time Magazine article “The Case for Gun Control” in the inadvertent usage of a paragraph similar to what Jill Lepore had in her piece in The New Yorker earlier on April 23rd.
It is ...
Paru Mami of my village was, to quote a Hindi saying, Garib ki Joru, Sab ki Bhabhi—poor man’s wife, everybody’s sister-in-law.
Her husband, Nanu Jyosyar’s income as an elementary school teacher was insufficient to feed the family of five daughters and one son. Though his ...
