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Debotri Dhar

On forgiveness, and a flower

“You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do?” This is the premise...

On forgiveness, and a flower

“You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do?” This is the premise...

On forgiveness, and a flower

“You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do?” This is the premise...

The hardest journeys

This summer brings me the delightful opportunity to host a literary event for book-lovers in Ann Arbor featuring local, national and international writers. The...

The hardest journeys

This summer brings me the delightful opportunity to host a literary event for book-lovers in Ann Arbor featuring local, national and international writers. The...

The hardest journeys

This summer brings me the delightful opportunity to host a literary event for book-lovers in Ann Arbor featuring local, national and international writers. The...

When home is a song

In Questions of Travel, Elizabeth Bishop asks: “Continent, city, country, society, the choice is never wide and never free/and here or there…No. Should we...

When home is a song

In Questions of Travel, Elizabeth Bishop asks: “Continent, city, country, society, the choice is never wide and never free/and here or there…No. Should we...

When home is a song

In Questions of Travel, Elizabeth Bishop asks: “Continent, city, country, society, the choice is never wide and never free/and here or there…No. Should we...

The importance of resilience

“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. Ours is not a caravan of despair.”It was surreal to hear the poetry of...

The importance of resilience

“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. Ours is not a caravan of despair.”It was surreal to hear the poetry of...

The importance of resilience

“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. Ours is not a caravan of despair.”It was surreal to hear the poetry of...

Difficult pleasures: Art, ideology, essay

Much has been written this month about well-crafted novels and poetry collections, from the past year’s literary bounties, but there wasn’t nearly enough about...

Difficult pleasures: Art, ideology, essay

Much has been written this month about well-crafted novels and poetry collections, from the past year’s literary bounties, but there wasn’t nearly enough about...

Difficult pleasures: Art, ideology, essay

Much has been written this month about well-crafted novels and poetry collections, from the past year’s literary bounties, but there wasn’t nearly enough about...

Susheela’s Garden

As the New Year approaches, and with it new hopes and resolutions, magazines and websites are brimming with “how-to” articles packed with advice: how...

Susheela’s Garden

As the New Year approaches, and with it new hopes and resolutions, magazines and websites are brimming with “how-to” articles packed with advice: how...

Susheela’s Garden

As the New Year approaches, and with it new hopes and resolutions, magazines and websites are brimming with “how-to” articles packed with advice: how...

The fairy doors of Ann Arbor

The books in your library will tell you that these miniature doors found all over Ann Arbor in Michigan are a local form of...

The fairy doors of Ann Arbor

The books in your library will tell you that these miniature doors found all over Ann Arbor in Michigan are a local form of...

The fairy doors of Ann Arbor

The books in your library will tell you that these miniature doors found all over Ann Arbor in Michigan are a local form of...

The writer as a hummingbird

“There is nothing to writing,” said Ernest Hemingway. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Rowing down the Huron river...

The writer as a hummingbird

“There is nothing to writing,” said Ernest Hemingway. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Rowing down the Huron river...

The writer as a hummingbird

“There is nothing to writing,” said Ernest Hemingway. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Rowing down the Huron river...

The politics of love and marriage

Some time ago, on a subway ride in New York, I met a newly married interracial couple. He was white, she was black, and...

The politics of love and marriage

Some time ago, on a subway ride in New York, I met a newly married interracial couple. He was white, she was black, and...

The politics of love and marriage

Some time ago, on a subway ride in New York, I met a newly married interracial couple. He was white, she was black, and...

An Indian Summer

An intriguing aspect of the Non-Resident Indian experience is a holiday reversal of sorts. While privileged Indians head to the cooler climes of Europe...

An Indian Summer

An intriguing aspect of the Non-Resident Indian experience is a holiday reversal of sorts. While privileged Indians head to the cooler climes of Europe...

An Indian Summer

An intriguing aspect of the Non-Resident Indian experience is a holiday reversal of sorts. While privileged Indians head to the cooler climes of Europe...

Travel diaries: Of pickled identities

Yesterday, an Indian-American couple seated beside me at the airport in Amsterdam was having an intriguing argument. His mother’s lemon pickle recipe was the...

Travel diaries: Of pickled identities

Yesterday, an Indian-American couple seated beside me at the airport in Amsterdam was having an intriguing argument. His mother’s lemon pickle recipe was the...

Travel diaries: Of pickled identities

Yesterday, an Indian-American couple seated beside me at the airport in Amsterdam was having an intriguing argument. His mother’s lemon pickle recipe was the...

In Memoriam: Portrait of a Woman

A dash of red lipstick, a dab of Chanel No. 5, some Johnny Walker Red—and she was ready to take on the world. I...

In Memoriam: Portrait of a Woman

A dash of red lipstick, a dab of Chanel No. 5, some Johnny Walker Red—and she was ready to take on the world. I...

In Memoriam: Portrait of a Woman

A dash of red lipstick, a dab of Chanel No. 5, some Johnny Walker Red—and she was ready to take on the world. I...

Anklets, airports and identity

This time in India, my sister gifted me a pretty pair of payals. These payals, or traditional anklets, are a joke in the family;...

Anklets, airports and identity

This time in India, my sister gifted me a pretty pair of payals. These payals, or traditional anklets, are a joke in the family;...

Anklets, airports and identity

This time in India, my sister gifted me a pretty pair of payals. These payals, or traditional anklets, are a joke in the family;...

Women and transnational politics of bromance

Earlier this month, America’s satirical newspaper, The Onion published an article with an entirely naked picture of Hillary Clinton. “Hillary Clinton appears before rally...

Women and transnational politics of bromance

Earlier this month, America’s satirical newspaper, The Onion published an article with an entirely naked picture of Hillary Clinton. “Hillary Clinton appears before rally...

Women and transnational politics of bromance

Earlier this month, America’s satirical newspaper, The Onion published an article with an entirely naked picture of Hillary Clinton. “Hillary Clinton appears before rally...

Women’s education and a love story

My grandmother, whom we call Didi, has one lingering sorrow: she got married at eighteen and could not go to college. A brilliant student,...

Women’s education and a love story

My grandmother, whom we call Didi, has one lingering sorrow: she got married at eighteen and could not go to college. A brilliant student,...

Women’s education and a love story

My grandmother, whom we call Didi, has one lingering sorrow: she got married at eighteen and could not go to college. A brilliant student,...

Michigan diaries: Songs of the snow

“I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all white and moving, I am in...

Michigan diaries: Songs of the snow

“I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all white and moving, I am in...

Michigan diaries: Songs of the snow

“I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all white and moving, I am in...

Dear Sir, I’m a woman, now may I speak?

Earlier this month, the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan hosted my talk on women and the politics of religion. It...

Dear Sir, I’m a woman, now may I speak?

Earlier this month, the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan hosted my talk on women and the politics of religion. It...

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