…my state as the Commander and the COs began briefing me with a 30-page script! I was completely out of my depth, and kicking myself for having agreed. “This is…
…etc. The titles of her books are Critical Inquiry: Text, Context, and Perspectives, Commentaries: Elucidating Poetry, Rassundari Dasi’s Amar Jiban: A Comprehensive Study, Ashprishya (translated into Bengali, a novel by…
…experience. Even the examples above are more of national/regional disasters which affected many people—and I was only one of them. I feel this kind of communal experience is more resonant…
…if I had seen any new movies and plays, joined any club or NGOs, etc. It was such a refreshing conversation that I instantly began to feel better after the…
Jawid Danish: The Incredible Solo Journey of an Afghan Refugee Boy Jawid Danish and I sit across from each other at the Oodi Library in Helsinki, Finland, a community space…
…Life is beautiful and photography can capture that beauty. Photography freezes moments to cherish it forever. As Helmut Newton said, “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” –Mahendra Bakle…
…seeing a dog walking around with one in its mouth. Well, that’s all gone with the magic cup coming into my life, though not the doggies bit and that still…
In conversation with Author Maureen Tai Author Preeta Samarasan ( Evening is the Whole Day and the recently released Tale of the Dreamer’s Son) and author Maureen Tai (Itterasshai: Go…
I remember it was late evening. I remember the river. From the airplane more than 30,000 feet in the air, through tired eyes, I saw the river. It lay upon…
…us to Wadi Rum village, a small and disorganized collection of brick houses, Bedouin tents, ramshackle hostels, and open-air eateries, where we had to meet our Bedouin driver for the…
