“You are a prisoner in a concentration camp. A dying Nazi soldier asks for your forgiveness. What would you do?”...
This summer brings me the delightful opportunity to host a literary event for book-lovers in Ann Arbor featuring local, national...
In Questions of Travel, Elizabeth Bishop asks: “Continent, city, country, society, the choice is never wide and never free/and here...
“Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of leaving. Ours is not a caravan of despair.” It was surreal...
Much has been written this month about well-crafted novels and poetry collections, from the past year’s literary bounties, but there...
As the New Year approaches, and with it new hopes and resolutions, magazines and websites are brimming with “how-to” articles...
The books in your library will tell you that these miniature doors found all over Ann Arbor in Michigan are...
“There is nothing to writing,” said Ernest Hemingway. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Rowing...
Some time ago, on a subway ride in New York, I met a newly married interracial couple. He was white,...
An intriguing aspect of the Non-Resident Indian experience is a holiday reversal of sorts. While privileged Indians head to the...
Yesterday, an Indian-American couple seated beside me at the airport in Amsterdam was having an intriguing argument. His mother’s lemon...
A dash of red lipstick, a dab of Chanel No. 5, some Johnny Walker Red—and she was ready to take...
This time in India, my sister gifted me a pretty pair of payals. These payals, or traditional anklets, are a...
Earlier this month, America’s satirical newspaper, The Onion published an article with an entirely naked picture of Hillary Clinton. “Hillary...
My grandmother, whom we call Didi, has one lingering sorrow: she got married at eighteen and could not go to...
“I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all white and...
Earlier this month, the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan hosted my talk on women and the...
She was the choice for many, until he came along. We’re talking about Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Senator with the...
This time it rained a lot. It had started raining the very day the dates for the India trip were...
During the Kolkata launch of my new book, the knowledgeable Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee (ex-director of the National Book Trust) posed...
During the Kolkata launch of my new book, the knowledgeable Nirmal Kanti Bhattacharjee (ex-director of the National Book Trust) posed...
“Why fiction?” sternly asks an academic friend when I tell her about my new novel, causing a serious moment of...
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