Shonakaka
Shonakaka with me, (from right), my cousin Jayanta, my brother, Shantanu, my cousins Sudip and Suman at our grandfather's house in Kolkata. Circa, 1968. The last time I saw Shonakaka, I knew…
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August 8, 2012
Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou? At the arena in Verona, of course
The Arena in Verona's Piazza Bra I’d been up for many, many hours – too many to count, I think, after a day of work at CNN, a trans-Atlantic flight…
July 26, 2012
Some like it hot
Hot. Hotter. And hottest. First it was 103. Then 106. Today, 104. Wednesday's forecast of a high of 93 looks absolutely delightful. The extreme heat gripping Atlanta and other cities…
July 1, 2012
Team Tymoshenko
It seems that in every football pool, I pick near the bottom of the first round. Funny how that works, eh? The big guns were all beyond my grasp…
June 8, 2012
A master of words; a man of integrity
On that afternoon, I didn’t know what to expect inside Room No. 34. I’d seen Ron several days before, at Piedmont Hospital. I hadn’t even fully stepped into his room…
June 5, 2012
Of kings, queens and heroes
The earliest versions of chess originated in ancient India but it wasn't until Viswanathan Anand did my homeland claim its first grandmaster. The 42-year-old just won another world championship this week…
May 31, 2012
A voice in Vietnam
Ho Thi Bich Khuong.Born: 1967Activity: WriterDate of arrest: November 15, 2011Sentence: Sentenced December 29, 2011 to 5 years imprisonment followed by 3 years house arrestCharge: Propaganda against the socialist stateCurrent location:…
May 29, 2012
Bobbie and Wallace
Bobbie and Wallace EdwardsAlmost eight years ago on an early July morning, I got into my Honda CRV and raced like the wind towards Robbins, North Carolina.It's a small town…
May 7, 2012
Chaplain Turner's War
Chaplain Darren Turner counsels a soldier at a combat outpost in Arab Jabour, March, 2008. Photo by Curtis Compton/AJCFour years ago, I spent time with an Army chaplain in Iraq…
April 30, 2012
Barnabas and Baba
Jonathan Frid as Barnabas Collins in the 1960s "Dark Shadows."In the late 1960s, we lived for a while in a rented house on Adams Circle in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Every…
April 20, 2012
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