Happy Days are Here Again

Who hasn’t experienced rejection? I know I have. There was that guy in class six who didn’t understand the signals I was sending him (I

Black Longings

'Will you kiss me, please?' she pleaded. Are the desires and dreams of the disabled all bleak? I had spoken to two blind people to

Is this True?

Why Me?

He created the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS, received the first Annual AIDS Leadership Award, and addressed the United Nations on World

Tips by a Desi Playerette

Meenakshi

This is how Meenu or Meenakshi spent each day of her life – an enchanted blissful existence filled with family love, in a small town

Ramadan Special: The Felicitations of Fasting

The one who fasts has two joys in which to delight...

Gardens of Stone

In memory of Kargil

Of Weddings and Disney

When I saw the movie, Father of the Bride, I thought wow! these Americans spend so much money on their weddings. Hell, they have a

My Dudley!

Not fair that I have to marry a bloody Raza guy, when I wanted to marry a Hugh Jackman or Johnny Depp look-alike! Not fair

Home, a state of mind?

Home is not necessarily a four-walled structure that has traces of one’s childhood days and it certainly does not represent the country or city one

Revolutionary for Sale

Clothing plastered with the portrait of socialist revolutionary Che Guevara is possibly one of the oddest and most self contradictory

A Cursed Nation

What a sorrow, we dream of an ideal society a prosperous country but we want someone else to fight for this cause.

Views of an Indian in Pakistan

I was invited to dinner at a Pakistani colleague’s home in Karachi. After the third peg of Scotch (inevitably) one of the guests opened up.

Oxygen

This is Karachi... there is no... fresh air

God’s Last Class

God steps into the classroom for the last class of the semester and walks quietly to the blackboard. The TA, Gabe, hands him a piece