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Category: Perspectives
Awaiting Justice
Thank you for drawing attention to hate crimes and how they don’t get very far within the criminal justice system (India Currents, July 2012, Color of Justice). India Currents does a great job of reminding people to fight injustice and not be complacent.
I am so thankful ...
Elephant!!”
“Shhhhhhhhhh…..it’ll hear you!”
“Shoot straight or we’re goners!”
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
And then, “Get off me, you idiots, or I’ll call Ma!”
It was way before TV, way, way before VFX effects and much before 3D films for that matter. So capable were we of ...
No, a Romney presidency would be disastrousPresident Bill warned us recently that a Romney presidency will be “calamitous for our country and the world.” I completely agree. Further, I also agree with Clinton that while Romney is eminently qualified to seek the presidency with his experience steering private enterprise ...
With
the advent of telephone, email, texts, chat and skype, letter writing
has become a lost art and is becoming as much of an anachronism as
lighting candles for brightness. But I clearly remember the pleasure of
receiving a hand written missive; a letter addressed to me, waiting in ...
On an impulse, I bought a ticket to Paris. A friend of mine has been living here for a year so I decided to visit her. Visiting her was just an excuse. Subconsciously, I wanted to travel alone; to test my mettle; to see if I could get around ...
pukka or pucka (p^kuh) — adj1. properly or perfectly done, constructed, etc: a pukka road2. genuine: pukka sahib [from Hindi pakka firm, from Sanskrit pakva]
A few years ago, I was exchanging emails with an up-and-coming desi actor who’d been a schoolmate of mine. “Excited to feature you in India Currents!” I said. “Can’t believe how long it’s been since Challenger.”
His response: “Are we grown-ups?”
I laughed, but then I scratched ...
The Skeleton Out of the ClosetMore than 20 years ago, domestic violence was a taboo topic. Whenever I brought attention to it, many people would tell me “every community has its negative, why am I coloring the Indian community with this? There is no domestic violence in the Indian ...
I was told she was the real Rose of Titanic. When James Cameron was looking for a feisty old woman as a model for the 100 year-old Titanic survivor in his film, he came across Beatrice Wood. The American ceramicist, though she liked to call herself a potter, was already ...
Teaching, it is increasingly clear to me, is much more than the sum of its parts. At best, it is a dialogical act of commitment and engagement with the world and others in it.
Amit Chaudhuri’s 2009 novel, The Immortals, is a portrait of the vexed relations between ...
Awaiting Justice
Thank you for drawing attention to hate crimes and how they don’t get very far within the criminal justice system (India Currents, July 2012, Color of Justice). India Currents does a great job of reminding people to fight injustice and not be complacent.
I am so thankful ...
Elephant!!”
“Shhhhhhhhhh…..it’ll hear you!”
“Shoot straight or we’re goners!”
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
And then, “Get off me, you idiots, or I’ll call Ma!”
It was way before TV, way, way before VFX effects and much before 3D films for that matter. So capable were we of ...
No, a Romney presidency would be disastrousPresident Bill warned us recently that a Romney presidency will be “calamitous for our country and the world.” I completely agree. Further, I also agree with Clinton that while Romney is eminently qualified to seek the presidency with his experience steering private enterprise ...
With
the advent of telephone, email, texts, chat and skype, letter writing
has become a lost art and is becoming as much of an anachronism as
lighting candles for brightness. But I clearly remember the pleasure of
receiving a hand written missive; a letter addressed to me, waiting in ...
On an impulse, I bought a ticket to Paris. A friend of mine has been living here for a year so I decided to visit her. Visiting her was just an excuse. Subconsciously, I wanted to travel alone; to test my mettle; to see if I could get around ...
pukka or pucka (p^kuh) — adj1. properly or perfectly done, constructed, etc: a pukka road2. genuine: pukka sahib [from Hindi pakka firm, from Sanskrit pakva]
A few years ago, I was exchanging emails with an up-and-coming desi actor who’d been a schoolmate of mine. “Excited to feature you in India Currents!” I said. “Can’t believe how long it’s been since Challenger.”
His response: “Are we grown-ups?”
I laughed, but then I scratched ...
The Skeleton Out of the ClosetMore than 20 years ago, domestic violence was a taboo topic. Whenever I brought attention to it, many people would tell me “every community has its negative, why am I coloring the Indian community with this? There is no domestic violence in the Indian ...
I was told she was the real Rose of Titanic. When James Cameron was looking for a feisty old woman as a model for the 100 year-old Titanic survivor in his film, he came across Beatrice Wood. The American ceramicist, though she liked to call herself a potter, was already ...
Teaching, it is increasingly clear to me, is much more than the sum of its parts. At best, it is a dialogical act of commitment and engagement with the world and others in it.
Amit Chaudhuri’s 2009 novel, The Immortals, is a portrait of the vexed relations between ...
