Welcome to New York

The Empire State Building lit in gold to honor the election of Pope Leo XIV

Taylor Swift’s anthem to New York blares in my ears as the train enters the North River tunnels.

8 years since I traveled to the city for fun. Memories cascade across my feed …

Grief is the metabolization of change

I read Inciting Joy at the end of last year because I wanted to read a book about joy. In its pages and hours of audio, I found much joy (in flower beds and trips to Sabrina’s) but also many lessons about joy that come from darker moments (death and grief).

Why do I blog?

Why do you blog? It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged on this website. This prompt from my WordPress app seems as good a reason to restart as any other. When I first started blogging back in 2012, I was documenting my journey in India. I moved on to writing about Indian books, Indian […]

Book review: Defiant Dreams

Editor’s note Although I have never met them, I know several of the contributors to this volume, mostly through the online Facebook group For Writers, By Authors. I was a beta reader of Radhika Maira Tabrez’s short story in this volume, Built From the Ashes. Anirban Nanda has beta read for me. When Rhiti Bose […]