Poetry

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...

Black Lives and the Journeys to Racial Justice (Part II: Non-fiction & Art)

In this America, Miles Davis, Trumpeter, composer, jazz innovator, While standing outside a jazz club in New York where he was performing...

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)...

Friends Across Oceans (for Shafali, the newest one)

Grab your cup of tea, glass of wine, handkerchief, tissues if you are up for this sentimental post. All set? Here we go. One summer...

For Sabina

Plaid pale pants Puffy black jacket Short stylish black hair (Shorter than I remember) Those deepset black eyes as bright and...

Nature Never Did Betray the Heart that Loved Her

There are places that calm one's spirits, still one's restless mind and offer comfort, solace. These are the places where I love to walk,...

The Reluctant Poet

She picks words as she picks popcorn from a bowl, without looking, without effort. She threads them together as she threads beads into...

Take My Hand

The past few weeks have brought jolting news of deaths by suicide, of fashion designer Kate Spade, celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, and...

The Billionaire and the Beach

There is a man named Khosla A Silicon Valley type With SUN he made his billions And then he found a gripe He bought a beachfront mansion...

Edible Memories

A gift card to Kepler's! I was delighted and overwhelmed at this farewell gift from my colleagues. It was 1999. I had completed my...

Sadness (My Sometimes Friend)

Here you are again My sometimes friend You came in the middle of the night I lay awake with you wrapped around my heart And there...

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