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    The Piping Hot Tea Of Culture

    • January 13, 2019
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    The words, “we have no culture” clink around in our empty glasses as my aunt’s eyes dart around the dinner table, looking for someone to agree with her. I sink[…]

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    Storyteller: Kalyani & The Voice From the Well

    • August 11, 2018
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    It was summer and Kalyani’s daughter, her son-in-law, and grandkids who had come from Bombay, were all stuffed into her humble abode in Palakkad, the little house almost bursting at[…]

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    The Call

    • October 27, 2017
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    It doesn’t always come in the middle of the night. Sometimes it comes during the middle of lunch or over a slice of pie or at the bottom of an[…]

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    The Wisdom Of Crazy

    • April 12, 2017
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    Balaram Pandey, Jairam Shastri, and Shivaram Chowby. My father bestowed these imperial names onto our three cats. My feline brothers. Prativadi Venkata loved them beyond the sensible, inter-species sense. My[…]

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    Our Histories Must Matter

    • March 10, 2017
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    On November 8, my great aunt passed away. She was born on a tea plantation in Sibsagar, Assam, on September 11, 1925, the eldest daughter of a successful industrialist and[…]

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    Yellow Roses To Greet Your Sweet Valentine

    • February 13, 2017
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    When my parents got married, almost sixty years ago, Valentine’s Day was a concept as foreign to them as the very notion of falling in love. I often referred to[…]

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    Growing Up Smith: An Immigrant Boy’s American Dream

    • February 3, 2017
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    Smith Bhatnagar comes of age in Growing Up Smith, a family-friendly film set in 1979 and opening today in select theaters. Played by newcomer Roni Akurati, Smith is an endearingly awkward 10-year-old[…]

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    Gold Dust: The Charm & Story Of The Heirloom

    • April 19, 2016
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    What a rarity it is, a material thing that is timeless. A piece that gets better with age, a piece that tells a story, a piece that can be passed[…]

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    Read An Excerpt From Prajwal Parajuly’s Debut Novel Land Where I Flee

    • June 3, 2015
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    Manil Suri describes Prajwal Parajuly as “a master capturing, with wit and humor, the day-to-day interactions between his characters.” In his debut novel, Land Where I Flee, Prajwal Parajuly sets his[…]

    Life · Religion

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    Ritual, Love and Community: A 21st-Century Family’s Mundan Ceremony

    • October 8, 2014
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    I always knew I didn’t want an Indian wedding. Even when I thought that I might marry a boy someday, I imagined us eloping, telling my parents to cash in[…]

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