THE FEATURED ARTICLES
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November 2006 -
Turning 50 seems to create a cascade of feelings—especially toward the past. This year when I hit my own mid-century mark I realized .............
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November 2006 -
Kal Penn (Kalpesh Modi) is at it again. After the success of Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle............
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November 2006 -
My wife and I recently moved into a house in another part of town and I've been checking out the neighborhood .........
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November 2006 -
Most people in the world mark the harvest season with some kind of ritual to thank a creature, or nature, or their loved ones.........
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November 2006 -
Aviator Raj Nayar has set impressive records in a pioneering journey through the decades
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October 2006 -
A week before Diwali last year, when I answered the phone, a suave male voice wanted to talk only to my wife, Sarla. She took the call, thanked profusely and promised to be there. What rendezvous ...............
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October 2006 -
September 11th is the date of two globally important anniversaries; one of hope and one of horror. On 9/11 one hundred years ago Mahatma Gandhi founded a movement known as "Satyagraha," .........
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October 2006 -
Kali Puja and khichuri are as much to the quintessential Bengali bhadralok as Diwali and dry fruit barfis are to the rest of India. The puja takes place on the night of the new moon in the Hindu month of Kartik........
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October 2006 -
Of Memsahibs and Multitasking
Musing on the relative merits of hired help versus do-it-yourself; in other words, the Indian versus the American way.
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October 2006 -
Mehnaz had an early morning meeting that Wednesday. Normally she caught the 8 a.m. FS bus going to San Francisco and by that hour the sun's rays were embracing the sky ..........