Lift Every Voice and Sing! Juneteenth 2024 in Menlo Park
"Juneteenth" blends the words June 19th, which was the date in 1865 when the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery after the end of...
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- Jun 11
- 5 min
Monkey Man (Film Review by Sunaina)
"Seeing someone who looks like me–with my hair, skin tone, and culture–as a multi-dimensional, flawed, beautiful, badass character rather...
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- May 28
- 8 min
SALA 2023: Remembering the Highlights
Yes, it has been several months since the South Asian Literature and Art Festival (SALA 2023) at Menlo College in Menlo Park, California....
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- May 15
- 5 min
All The World's a Stage
Live theater is one of my great pleasures, and it delights me to discover a new playhouse -- new, at least, to me. City Lights Theater...
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- May 3
- 4 min
‘The Book of Vows’ – Amit Majmudar’s Mahabharata
In an impassioned introduction providing context for this greatest of stories with countless retellings, Amit Majmudar explains why he...
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- Feb 8
- 6 min
Poetry & Politics in Pakistan: "The History Teacher Of Lahore" by Tahira Naqvi
On April 4, 1979, I was getting ready for school when I learned that the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had been...
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- Sep 21, 2023
- 1 min
Lit Fest: Get your Tickets to SALA 2023, Oct 7-8!
The South Asian Literature and Arts Festival returns in 2023, this time at Menlo College in Atherton. It features over 60 Artists and...
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- Sep 14, 2023
- 6 min
From Palakkad Village Girl to Stylish Patti – The Fascinating Life of Lily Tharoor
I am in Kerala as I write this, having just returned to Kochi from visiting a beloved aunt in Palakkad District. I never tire of...
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- Jun 16, 2023
- 7 min
Abraham Verghese, Interpreter of Maladies - 'The Covenant of Water'
About two-thirds of the way through The Covenant of Water , a birth is described. "Baby Ninan arrives in the year of our Lord 1946, like...
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- May 7, 2023
- 5 min
Midnight's Grandchild: "The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida"
In all the years since I first read Salman Rushdie’s Midnight's Children, no book has matched its brilliance, its exuberance and its...
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- Mar 31, 2023
- 4 min
Raji's Recordings!
I have moderated book discussions and author interviews in the past few years, and even participated in a Readathon! The recordings are...
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- Mar 29, 2023
- 2 min
"The Perfumist of Paris" by Alka Joshi -- a Kepler's Books Event
The Henna Artist was released just when the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown began, and author Alka Joshi's book events switched to a virtual...
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- Mar 5, 2023
- 5 min
"Independence" by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Much of the literature about India’s Partition has been written around the violence and tragedy in the northwest. The focus is the...
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- Mar 3, 2023
- 3 min
"The Second Life of Mirielle West" by Amanda Skenandore
Silicon Valley Reads had chosen “Journey to New Beginnings” as its 2023 theme. One of the books selected to showcase this theme is The...
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- Nov 14, 2022
- 7 min
South Asian Literature and Art Festival 2022: a glorious in-person event
The South Asian Literature and Art Festival (SALA) returned in style and with considerable substance on October 29 and 30, 2022 at the...
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- Oct 22, 2022
- 4 min
Margaret Atwood at Stanford Live
Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, and winner of two Booker Prizes among other honors, graced Stanford’s Memorial...
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- Oct 21, 2022
- 1 min
Announcing: South Asian Literature and Art Festival 2022
The inaugural South Asian Literature and Art Festival (SALA 2019) was held in October 2019, at the picturesque Villa Montalvo in...
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- Sep 23, 2022
- 3 min
Ramayan, Naatak's 100th Production
During the pandemic shut down, I had watched a few of Naatak's zoom plays. Ramayan was my first live Naatak play in a theater since the...
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- May 10, 2022
- 4 min
A Mother’s Beginnings, a Nation’s Past (Sisters of Mokama, by Jyoti Thottam)
In 1947, the year India got its hard-won independence from British rule, six nuns from Kentucky voyaged to India to set up a hospital in...
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- Mar 6, 2022
- 5 min
Requiem for a Beloved Uncle
On September 17, 2021, one of the sweetest people I have ever known went into cardiac arrest in the ICU at Thangam hospital in Palakkad,...
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