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Silicon Valley Reads Event Recording: AI and Ethics in Commerce, Medicine and Journalism
Silicon Valley Reads chose as its 2025 theme “Empowering Humanity: Technology for a Better World.” I moderated a session presented by...
Mar 31 min read
Family, Love & Civil War In Sri Lanka (Brotherless Night by VV Ganeshananthan)
Radicalization of young men in a civil war How does a young man become “radicalized?” Subject him, his family, and his community to...
Dec 7, 20244 min read
Booker Winner Shehan Karunatilaka on Cricket, Civil War and Talking Ghosts in Colombo
“Dictators are pretty good for landscaping and gardens,” quipped Shehan Karunatilaka, winner of the 2022 Booker Prize for his novel The...
Dec 1, 20244 min read
Ink from the Island: Sri Lankan Writers Have a Moment
The South Asian Art and Literature Festival (SALA 2024) hosted three award-winning writers of Sri Lankan descent on September 28th at...
Nov 28, 20244 min read
Anti-slavery movement in prisons is dealt a setback (Article by Sunaina)
In the 2024 elections, California voters rejected a ballot measure which would have disallowed involuntary servitude in its prisons...
Nov 24, 20244 min read
"Kite", my short story in Gold Man Review
While you have read my book and theater reviews previously, Kite is my first published work of fiction. It appears in Issue 14 of Gold...
Nov 3, 20242 min read
Young Voters Consider Harris' Position on Gaza (Article by Sunaina)
The Offspring, 19 and a voter, wrote a piece for Ethnic Media Services on how the official position on Gaza influences young voters...
Oct 29, 20244 min read
Erudite, Eloquent & Engaging: Shashi Tharoor at SALA 2024
Dr. Shashi Tharoor, author, intellectual, United Nations alumnus, and currently Member of Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala,...
Oct 22, 20244 min read
Talent and Pain: A Slice of Suvir Saran
Chef, writer and humanist extraordinaire Suvir Saran came to his SALA 2024 “A Slice of Life” session with VR Ferose , looking absolutely...
Oct 18, 20244 min read
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...
Jun 18, 20243 min read
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...
Jun 11, 20245 min read
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....
May 28, 20248 min read
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...
May 15, 20245 min read
‘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...
May 3, 20244 min read
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...
Feb 8, 20246 min read
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...
Sep 21, 20231 min read
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...
Sep 14, 20236 min read
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...
Jun 16, 20237 min read
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...
May 7, 20235 min read
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...
Mar 31, 20235 min read
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