If it’s summer, can a big fat Indian wedding be far behind? The wedding which is creating the most buzz this season is Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding!
Browsing: From Me to You
They are summer’s dazzling foot soldiers – nothing can keep them down. Having lain dormant in the soil through winter, snow and deprivation, they rise and rise, showcasing their beauty and color.
I introduce my first bi-weekly column of 2022 ‘From Me to You’ – How a Corn Snake Taught me My Purpose in Life’ – these are just random, intimate thoughts which may help us through our chaotic times. None of us have the answers!
Remembering the Lost 500,000 Americans Grieving with President Joe Biden… Today is a somber day – America has reached a…
Valentine’s Day with President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden – a heartful affair!
2020 was a scorcher – shell-shocked and weary we are so relieved to get off the scary ride in this nightmare amusement park.
Pakoras: Can you stop at one?
Guess whom I saw outside Trump Tower? Was it or wasn’t?
Elections 2020 – “Democracy does not just come around in November – it actually happens every single day of every single month of every single year.”
Corona Diaries – The Mask Ask! The most important thing you can do during the Pandemic is also the simplest and easiest thing to do.
It was an eye-opener to see all that she went through to get where she was, and how she retained her grace and equanimity – and the steel and determination – within her, as she brought her formidable legal mind and fresh gaze to the Supreme Court and affected real change for women and minorities through her thoughtul dissents in a world of male judges.
Lovely video by Bill Gates celebrting Warren Buffett’s 90th birthday – “Warren has the mental sharpness of a 30-year-old, the mischievous laugh of a 10-year-old, and the diet of a 6-year-old. He once told me that he looked at the data and discovered that first-graders have the best actuarial odds, so he decided to eat like one. He was only half-joking.”
In the age of Coronavirus – human ingenuity creates a mask out of mundane items.
Life in the Time of Coronavirus Here’s why we should be taking it seriously! View this post on Instagram…
spent a lot of today thinking about the unpredictability of life and why things happen the way they do. The helicopter crash, the meaningless deaths of all on board including the basketball legend Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old prodigy daughter Gianna. The random nature of life is the enigma we have to face time and again.
It started like a whispering rustle around the world, a soft rumbling and become this mighty force of marchers from Paris to Washington DC which also poked its way into my quiet apartment in New York. It seemed almost sacrilegious to be just spending a cerebral work afternoon at my computer when right on my streets so much action was taking place.
Walking in Times Square, you suddenly realize something strange – everyone is taking selfies! What is it about this part of New York that makes you want to record your visit for posterity? It’s like the Taj Mahal – you feel it looks so much more meaningful when you’re standing in front of it!
In my column, From Me to You, I share the tale of the last rose which battled the snowfall to tell us about optimism and beauty and how we can go out in a blaze of joy and color.
Forget the Vedas, forget the Bible, now we are getting infinite wisdom from chocolate wrappers! When did we start consulting our chocolates for knowledge about life and living?
I have had mixed feelings all day – a sense of sadness that children have had to lose their innocence, their childhood to take on such large, ugly issues. Issues of life and death, of morality and cowardice, of justice and standing up for their rights