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...
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- Sep 12, 2019
- 2 min
For Sabina
Plaid pale pants Puffy black jacket Short stylish black hair (Shorter than I remember) Those deepset black eyes as bright and...
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- Jul 23, 2019
- 4 min
"Marjorie Prime" by Naatak Theatre Company
This review was published in India Currents on July 28, 2019, as "Watching Naatak’s “Marjorie Prime” With my Father" Futuristic plays...
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- Jul 19, 2019
- 5 min
"Proof" by Naatak Theatre Company
A couple of months ago, Naatak UpClose presented “Proof”, David Auburn’s intense, Pulitzer Prize winning play, directed by Devika Ashok....
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- May 22, 2019
- 5 min
Eric Yuan, Zoom and the Pursuit of Happiness
My first experience with Zoom video conferencing was in a Stanford Continuing Studies class. In the spring of 2016, I decided to take an...
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- May 9, 2019
- 6 min
The Odyssey, and Going Home ("Nostos")
One of the great joys of living near Stanford University is access to many outstanding events that are open to the community. One such...
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- Apr 12, 2019
- 3 min
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,...
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- Apr 6, 2019
- 1 min
Spring Blooms and a Peacock at Filoli Gardens
Filoli is a historic house and garden in Woodside, California, and is one of the 28 sites owned by the National Trust for Historic...
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- Mar 13, 2019
- 10 min
Silicon Valley Reads 2019: Books on Family History
Silicon Valley Reads “is an annual community program that selects books focused on a contemporary theme and offers free events throughout...
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- Mar 11, 2019
- 15 min
Watermark Conference for Women, 2019 (The Power of Us!)
“The Power of Us” was this year’s theme for the fifth annual Watermark Conference for Women Silicon Valley, attended by over 7000 women,...
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- Mar 6, 2019
- 7 min
Nandita Das and the Making of "Manto"
This piece was published in India Currents ("Nandita Das Delights at Stanford") on March 12, 2019. Actor and film director Nandita Das...
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- Feb 23, 2019
- 7 min
Your Mother's Eyes, Your Father's Smile and "The Stranger in My Genes" by Bill Gri
We look at a child’s smile and match that smile to her mother or father. Resemblances, in appearance, in a laugh, in a gesture, in...
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- Oct 24, 2018
- 8 min
Indians for Collective Action (ICA): 50 Years of Social Service
Indians for Collective Action (ICA) is a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit group whose mission is to support sustainable development in...
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- Sep 27, 2018
- 2 min
"Queen" by Enacte Arts: the Bee's Knees!
This review was published in Indica News on Sept 27, 2018. Enacte Arts , whose tagline is "South Asian Stories with Universal Appeal",...
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- Sep 13, 2018
- 9 min
Career and Mentoring: IBPW's annual conference
Indian Business and Professional Women (IBPW), a non-profit support network that promotes education, leadership and self-development...
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- Sep 6, 2018
- 13 min
"Mahabharat" by Naatak Theatre Company
A shorter version of this review was published in Indica News on Sept 11, 2018. A couple of months ago, I mentioned to Sunaina, my...
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- Aug 19, 2018
- 2 min
Kauai, the Garden Isle of Hawaii
There are few places on earth where, the second your feet touch the ground, the stress drains away. Hawaii is my #1 place in that...
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- Aug 18, 2018
- 1 min
Rudraksha trees and a Shiva temple in Kapa'a, Kauai
At the botanical gardens in Princeville, the tour guide pointed out some deep blue spheres on the ground, which she said were fruit of...
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- Jul 10, 2018
- 10 min
"Rashomon" by Naatak Theatre Company
A shorter version of this review was published in India West newspaper on Aug 1, 2018. In eager anticipation of Naatak’s adaptation of...
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- Jul 4, 2018
- 2 min
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...
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