A very difficult story
I have reported difficult stories before. It was never easy to tell tales of tragedy from places like Iraq. But a piece that published on CNN.com today is the hardest…
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November 10, 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
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
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
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
Sacred sounds
One of the greatest musical talents of our time was silenced Tuesday. Ravi Shankar died at 92. His was a name I grew up with, a name that made me…
December 12, 2012