SALA 2023: Remembering the Highlights
Yes, it has been several months since the South Asian Literature and Art Festival (SALA 2023) at Menlo College in Menlo Park, California....
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Feb 86 min read
Poetry & Politics in Pakistan: "The History Teacher Of Lahore" by Tahira Naqvi
On April 4, 1979, I was getting ready for school when I learned that the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had been...
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Sep 23, 20223 min read
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...
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Mar 17, 202013 min read
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...
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Oct 9, 201911 min read
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)...
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Sep 13, 20196 min read
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, 20192 min read
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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Apr 12, 20193 min read
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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Jul 4, 20182 min read
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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Jun 20, 20182 min read
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...
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Feb 27, 20182 min read
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...
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Apr 9, 20172 min read
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...
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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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