The recent news-story about the 12-year-old girl who was impregnated by her 17-year-old brother, possibly through rape, once again brought home to me the inability of most Indians to deal with the subject of sex. The parents in this case … Continue reading
President Clinton’s trip to India should highlight how much in common Indians share with Americans — and how much America needs India rather than the other way around. Two objects, side by side on our living room wall, dominate my … Continue reading
Charges against a landlord and restaurant owner in Berkeley, California — including allegations that he imported young girls for sexual purposes — have been greeted with distress and outrage. The alleged behavior, writes PNS commentator Sarita Sarvate, reveals a great … Continue reading
Recent efforts to make it easier for people with high-tech skills to live and work in the United States are widely seen in terms of benefiting outsiders. But PNS commentator Sarita Sarvate disagrees: imported brains, she says, have played a … Continue reading
The gravest mistake Americans could make right now is to dismiss the need for a national soul-searching over our social mores as a whim of the religious right. Sarita Sarvate is a writer who was born and raised in India. … Continue reading
Pacific News Service Los Angeles Times Many women of the Third World took heart from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s message of personal liberation at the Beijing Women’s Summit. Now they feel confused, even betrayed, by what they see as personal capitulation … Continue reading
Published by Salon Magazine via the New America Media News Syndicate An ancient civilization is calling for a new world order in which the powerful nations of the world will sit down with the less powerful to negotiate arms reduction … Continue reading
Published by Salon Magazine, National Public Radio, and many other newspapers and media outlets. The nation of Buddha, the Veddas and Mahatma Gandhi wants to be a nuclear giant. – – – – – – – – – – … Continue reading
My memories of our house in India are dominated by two objects: a candid portrait of Mahatma Gandhi wearing his famous wire-rimmed glasses, my parents’ wedding present; and hanging beside it on the living room wall, my brother’s charcoal sketch … Continue reading
Published in Living in America An anthology of fiction and poetry by South Asian American writers. BY SARITA SARVATE Meena cannot remember a time when she did not dread babies. They creep up on her out of nowhere. As she walks … Continue reading