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Every Moment is a Gift (Aruna Lakhwara) and SALA 2024
A few weeks ago I was shocked to learn that a lovely person I first met decades ago in San Francisco, and again more recently at the...
Jul 203 min read


The Big Easy - A Visit to New Orleans
What a fascinating city is New Orleans! The music, the food, the people, the history, the terrain, the trees, the bodies of water all...
Jun 69 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


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


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


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


The Bay Area's first South Asian Literature and Art Festival (SALA 2019)
The picturesque Villa Montalvo in Saratoga was the venue for the Bay Area’s first South Asian Literature and Art Festival (SALA 2019)...
Oct 9, 201911 min read
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