Casualty
Seamus Heaney died today. The New York Times headline described him as "Irish poet of soil and strife." I don't pretend to always understand poetry though I savor it. I…
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August 30, 2013
Happy Birthday
My mother would have turned 82 today. I would have picked up the phone and called her. 011-91-33-2247-6600. I would have said: Ma! Happy Birthday. I would have asked her…
August 24, 2013
Every day is Memorial Day
Thursday evening, I drove out to Loganville, Georgia. I suppose it's not a tremendous distance from downtown Atlanta but during rush hour, it took me more than an hour before…
August 16, 2013
The price of independence
It's too bad "Midnight's Children" was a bust at the box office. I'm thinking that Deepa Mehta was perhaps the wrong director to give us the celluloid depiction of Salman…
August 14, 2013
Reach for the Sky
Last weekend, I went to a trunk show of jewelry crafted by my friend Anubha Jayaswal. She's a friend from my hometown, Kolkata; her husband Vishal loves Bengali food more…
August 12, 2013