Triptych for Tarif (pre-election 2016)
Part I. He went to Dubai on a business trip from the US where he lived, and took a few days to visit his mother in Saudi Arabia. When he...
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Mar 9, 20171 min read
What I Would Do....If
If you, my beloved child Were in harm’s way If you were taken from me And I didn't know where you were If one day, you didn't come home...
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Mar 9, 20172 min read
Life Changing Letter
The postman always came in the afternoon, after we had had lunch. He would knock on the door, and hand us the mail. I can't recall who...
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Mar 3, 20171 min read
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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Dec 15, 20164 min read
How to Become a Scientist
You start by asking "Why?" repeatedly, from the time you learn to speak. On occasion, for variety, you ask "How?" Eventually, some...
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Oct 29, 20162 min read
Time Travel (or I Was By Your Side)
I am capable of instantaneous travel, of transporting myself anywhere in seconds. Thursday May 7, 2009. I travel from Sunnyvale,...
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Oct 29, 20161 min read
Mother
When I was a child Through raging fevers Chickenpox Measles Coughs and colds Tonsillectomy You were always there Gentle and kind...
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Oct 9, 20163 min read
Durian (an experiment)
In San Francisco, there is a restaurant in Chinatown on Washington Street at Kearny called Penang Garden. It serves...
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Sep 30, 20164 min read
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...
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Sep 9, 20161 min read
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...
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Apr 9, 20161 min read
Glowing Serpent
There you are, inches away Glowing irresistibly through the gorilla glass, tough and durable they say, I have broken three. Oleophobic so...
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Apr 9, 20163 min read
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...
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Dec 8, 20095 min read
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...
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Jan 6, 20095 min read
"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...
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Feb 14, 200310 min read
"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...
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Jul 10, 19961 min read
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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