Anatomy of a dream
In mid-January, I became a doctoral candidate. Formally, this means that I passed the dissertation proposal, plus the qualifying exams [...]
Goodbye, my little princess
My mom thinks time stopped when I took that plane. But it hasn’t. I’m closer to my mid-twenties than to [...]
Fight club
For those who believe history is cyclical and teaches that warlike periods cannot be averted, even in ostensibly enlightened times, [...]
Fables for our times
Anyone — parents, teachers, policy-makers — who has kept up with the changes in U.S. education in the last decade [...]
His reader’s voice
To revel in the words of a good author is like taking in the aroma of fresh coffee. Instantly, the [...]
A history of enmity
President Donald Trump's nasty dressing-down of his Ukrainian counterpart may owe at least some of its origin to a man not even in the room, former President Joe Biden.
Upheavalism
The postwar world order is definitively over, at least in the West. Donald Trump and his minions of upheavalists — [...]
Shaping words
A couple of months ago, I found myself decluttering with a frenzy. I’ve written articles about the how-to of decluttering, [...]
The cats of Agouza
The British Council, in spite of its fame in certain parts of the world, is an organization that here in [...]
Minus Rapture
Inventor-turned-wrecking ball Elon Musk is a sick man. This he may not even know, since zeal can sit atop a [...]
Review: Gun Island
A contemporary retelling of a Bengali myth, Gun Island is a novel brimming with magical realism while simultaneously fraught with [...]