Textbooks are becoming vehicles for political propaganda It was when I was helping my older son with his middle-school homework that I first came across a tome titled A Message of Ancient Days. So I read about Mesopotamia and the … Continue reading
Published by New America Media A recent study published in the British medical journal Lancet claims that about half-a-million girl babies are aborted in India every year. In this study Canadian and Indian researchers, who collaborated on a national survey … Continue reading
Many immigrants like me find it hard to believe that America, home to some of the world’s greatest scientists like Albert Einstein and Linus Pauling, has once again been questioning the science of evolution. Like most Indian children of the … Continue reading
My childhood memories of Nagpur are marked only by festivals. The onset of monsoon rains heralded Bhulabai, or little Goddess. It was the first festival to dawn on my consciousness, perhaps because it was the one reserved exclusively for girls. … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: Limited resources, disorganized governmental response and apathy toward Mother Nature’s victims sound familiar to an Indian American. The U.S. must recognize Third World conditions within its borders. SAN JOSE, Calif.–When I first came here from India nearly 30 … Continue reading
I wish I could recall the exact moment when I first became aware of an author named Alice Munro. Perhaps it was years ago in the New Yorker that I read one of her stories. I wish I could remember … Continue reading
I was driving by the local middle school the other day, when I noticed a group of students huddling around the platform of the school flagpole, lighting candles, pasting handmade cards, arranging flowers in vases. I pulled up, wondering if … Continue reading
On Mother’s Day this year, I did something unusual: I called my mother to wish her “Happy Mother’s Day.” She was surprised because, until my phone call, she didn’t know about Mother’s Day, and I hadn’t told her because I … Continue reading
Editor’s Note: An Indian American remembers how the mystical mountain valleys of Kashmir were, through Bollywood films, forever embedded in her imagination. Recent moves toward peace in the disputed region give the writer hope that Hindus and Muslims can embrace … Continue reading
Apparently there is a new documentary out about Deep Throat. Not Bob Woodward’s secret source dubbed “Deep Throat” in the Watergate investigation, but about that other, equally infamous Deep Throat, the movie, which made Linda Lovelace a household name. The … Continue reading