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Durian (an experiment)

In San Francisco, there is a restaurant in Chinatown on Washington Street at Kearny called Penang Garden. It serves...

To Sleep... (But Please, Hold the Dreams!)

Short version. A couple of months ago, I had a dream that starting out pleasantly enough and then became very disturbing. It has stayed...

Halley's Comet

Halley’s comet last appeared in 1986. My father, trained in mathematics, is fond of astronomy and woke up to see it in the middle of the...

Glowing Serpent

There you are, inches away Glowing irresistibly through the gorilla glass, tough and durable they say, I have broken three. Oleophobic so...

Heathrow circa 2002 (or The Power of a Word)

I had navigated the long and confusing walkways at London’s Heathrow airport, arriving finally at the security checkpoint which would...

City of Joy, City of Dust. "Freedom Song" by Amit Chaudhuri

"Daily," Amit Chaudhuri writes, "Calcutta disintegrates, unwhispering, into dust, and daily it rises from dust again." Calcutta, home to...

"Listening Now" by Anjana Appachana

Anjana Appachana's first novel, "Listening Now" starts in the 1950's and tells the story of several women and girls, belonging to three...

"Midnight's Children", the play, by the Royal Shakespeare Company (Feb 2003)

This review appeared in Outlook India magazine in February 2003. "‘Midnight’s Children’? Salman Rushdie’s book?" my friend in the...

Your laughter rings....(for Aria)

Your laughter rings through the halls of academe bouncing off the benchtops, rattling the racks of tubes lifting my heart. I marvel at...

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