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Sarita Sarvate

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What About Bill?

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Sarita Sarvate
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How the dominoes have fallen. Ever since producer Harvey Weinstein was exposed as a sexual predator, the list of prominent men charged with sexual harassment has grown. Some of these men, like comedian Louis C.K., and actor Kevin Spacey, have … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Society, Uncategorized, Women | Tagged #MeToo, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Sexual Harassment | Leave a reply

Is Identity Politics Passé in the Age of Globalization?

Posted on November 10, 2017 by Sarita Sarvate
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After spending a month in Catalonia, I returned to California in September even as the referendum took place there. Looking back, I marvel at my naiveté as I set off for a writers’ residency in the high Pyrenees in early … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Society, World | Tagged Catalonia, Identity Politics, Spain | Leave a reply

Is the Handmaid’s Tale a Feminist Track?

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Sarita Sarvate
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I have always had difficulty with Margaret Atwood’s writings, perhaps because her visions of the future are too dark. Listening to the audio version of The Blind Assassin, I got thoroughly confused. No surprise then that I hadn’t read her … Continue reading →

Posted in Society, Uncategorized, Women | Tagged feminist literature, Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood | Leave a reply

Are Indian Weddings Too Ostentatious?

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Sarita Sarvate
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I saw Monsoon Wedding, the new musical, with a group of Indian women friends recently. We laughed at familiar idiomatic expressions, translated, at times awkwardly, from Hindi into English. We got nostalgic listening to old melodies. I even got teary-eyed … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Society | Tagged dowries, India, Indian Weddings | Leave a reply

Letter to Prime Minister Modi

Posted on July 2, 2017 by Sarita Sarvate
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Dear Mr. Modi: I am not your devotee, nor have I followed your career very assiduously. To tell you the truth, I am not even one of your citizens, having long forsaken my Indian passport. But I am writing today … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, World | Tagged India, Indian politics, Narendra Modi | Leave a reply

Living Inside a Dystopian Show

Posted on June 21, 2017 by Sarita Sarvate
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Whenever I’ve read about the Second World War, it has seemed such a romantic period to me: a period when the forces of good battled the forces of evil, and won.  The fact that I wasn’t even born helps of … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Society | Tagged Donald Trump, Dystopia, Fascism, Impeachment, Totalitarianism | Leave a reply

Duck And Cover

Posted on May 12, 2017 by Sarita Sarvate
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Sitting in his silo in the ‘70s, a military man in charge of launching the nuclear missiles asked a simple question. Were there checks and balances at the highest level of the United States government for starting an atomic war? … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Society | Tagged Nuclear Codes, Nuclear Football, Nuclear Holocaust, Nuclear Missiles, United States | Leave a reply

RIP American Democracy

Posted on April 8, 2017 by Sarita Sarvate
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In 1953, the United States and the United Kingdom overthrew the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing in his place the monarchy of Reza Pahlavi.  The reason?  Mosaddegh was about to nationalize Iran’s oil, depriving British Petroleum of … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics | Tagged Democracy, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, FBI, Jim Comey, US Democracy | Leave a reply

Trump is Right: Democrats’ Political Correctness is to Blame

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Sarita Sarvate
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I   was at my weekly watercolor class when, across the table, a woman said, “I don’t even know anyone who voted for Trump.” “I do,” I replied. I wasn’t kidding. My Chinese Dietician, an educated woman, voted for Trump. Many … Continue reading →

Posted in Society | Tagged 2016, Hillary Clinton, Political Correctness, US Election | Leave a reply

The Un-American American

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Sarita Sarvate
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You have gazed at the world from distant shores; you have lived far away from the center of action. You know how it feels to be an outsider, not only because of the color of your skin, but also because … Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Politics, Uncategorized | Tagged American culture, Barack Obama, Election | Leave a reply

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