“You don’t plan India, India plans you” Nicole Jaquis talks about some of her biggest lessons after several years navigating the most amazingly well orchestrated chaos that is India.
This…
Five years ago today, January 24th, having cleared my debts (student loans & credit cards), quit my job (running a community multimedia center), and packed up my material belongings (to…
I sit in my crowded room, mostly taken up by the double bed, which actually doubles, shall I say triples as a sleep-sadhana-work/study space. And as I watch myself… jump…
“Who checks your diary?”
Shradha asked me once as I tried to hide what it was I was writing, out of habit, as if she could actually read and understand…
For now India is my mirror,
reflecting upon me the western culture, I left behind
which shaped all the ways of being, I feel
myself shedding each and every moment
reflecting upon the extremes
between…
Once shadowed by skyscrapers,
my sun now filtered with smog.
The roar of the ocean makes it difficult to recall
feelings I‘ve had negotiating Times Square traffic
on a bike.
The man in the elevator…
Somehow in my reflections on 9.11, the idea of pursuing the very same American Dream that so many Indians I met along my travels held envy for, just doesn't seem…