Fifty-one
I turned 51 today. Last year was the milestone year. The big 50. I felt OK about it. 50 is the new 40, my older friends told me. I celebrated…
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October 13, 2013
India cyclone ravaged memories as well as land
Thinking of the 12 milion Indians who are bearing the brunt of Cyclone Phallin. Here is a piece I wrote for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1999, after the last deadly…
October 12, 2013
Phir bhi dil hai Hindustani
"When did you get home?" a friend asked me yesterday. "Last night," I replied. "It must feel good to be back," she said. The pause on the phone was long…
October 7, 2013
Can A White Guy Lead An Organization Founded For Journalists of Color?
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October 5, 2013
Vivek Singh
I just returned from a short trip to a part of central India that was previously unfamiliar -- Gadchiroli District in the state of Maharashtra. I was there to report…
September 30, 2013
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…
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
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