Go to any new-age retreat in California, and you will find young people preparing their breakfasts, not with spatulas and skillets, but with blenders. If you are eating your meal instead of drinking it, you are in danger of dating … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
The following essay was published in the journal Sugar Mule I faced the man in the blue uniform. From the other side of the row of booths, Bernard grinned at me. For a moment, my heart stopped. What if the … Continue reading
When I started writing political commentaries, I swore I would never touch one subject–Israel. Because if I had said anything that was not in line with official foreign policy, I would probably have gotten blacklisted and no one would have … Continue reading
When I look back upon my first impressions of America, what leaps out at the edges of my mind are a collage of sketches and snapshots; the words Pink Floyd painted in graffiti on the wall of a Berkeley building; … Continue reading
Published in India Abroad After 30 years, I drew a rangoli the other day. It was at a Diwali party, an unusual event for me, who, after three decades in the United States, is still on the margins of the … Continue reading
When President Barack Obama announced plans to attend the U.N. Climate Change summit in Copenhagen, I was excited. This was definitely a change in the right direction from the Bush administration. Then the e-mail scandal from the University of East … Continue reading
Published by Rediff, India “Seven more farmers committed suicide yesterday,” my brother said during our weekly phone check-in. A civil engineer who travels around the rural Vidarbha region, the bread basket of my native state of Maharashtra, he daily witnesses … Continue reading
Reflections on a pilgrimage to Mata Amritanandamayi’s ashram SARITA SARVATE, Mar 15, 2009 When one enters the compound of Amma’s Ashram in Amritapuri, Kerala, the first impression one gets is that of a yatra, a Hindu pilgrimage. Hundreds of people … Continue reading
SARITA SARVATE, Mar 07, 2009 Cormac McCarthy’s novel, The Road, paints a bleak picture of a post-apocalyptic earth in the grips of a freeze akin to nuclear winter, much talked about in the ’70s. The sun’s rays cannot penetrate the … Continue reading