Tag: India

Jenny Bhatt recalls the rites of passage that led to her shift in identity from corporate executive to woman writer of color.

Siddhartha Mahanta looks back at the small suburban starter house in Texas that helped his immigrant father redefine “home.”

India’s once lucrative IT sector now fears it’s glory years are ending as one of its biggest companie starts downsizing.

As a teenager, Madhur Anand’s mother takes heed of her father’s final words and becomes a teacher.

Elizabeth Flock on the years she spent studying other people’s marriages in Mumbai.

On showing, telling, and finding one’s way as a literary writer of color.

All they really wanted was to live happily ever after.

For the Sikh Motorcycle Club Of The Northeast, riding is centering, creates brotherhood and reaffirms their commitment to Sikh values.

While critics were measuring her life as the length of time between novels, Arundhati Roy was out in the world, living it.

“People insist that only an idiot would move from the land of the dollar to the 68-times-weaker rupee.”

The animation student felt a thrill as he entered the hotel. It grew when, as soon as he unlocked his luxurious room, he caught sight of a not-entirely-unexpected gift—a hamper of complimentary cigarettes and Zippo lighters. His excitement increased further over the next couple of days, filled with seminars and celebrations, and culminating in a […]

“This is the man who transformed teenage rebellion into a toilet revolution.”

An illiterate child from a small town in India falls asleep on a train and ends up lost in Calcutta, unable to find his way back home. Twenty-five years later, while living with his adoptive family in Australia, he locates his lost hometown using memories and Google Earth: This was it, the name of the […]

A man travels to the Dhamma Giri meditation center in western India to learn the meditation style known as Vipassana—the same meditation used by the Buddha to reach enlightenment 25 centuries ago. Enlightenment doesn’t come easy: There are no further instructions. And I can’t ask anyone what I’m supposed to do. So I sit, striving […]