When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

Why couldn't she be part of that family? rent a room in someone else's life.

In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time.

The Indian diaspora is a wonderful place to write from and I am lucky to be part of it.

Jemu watched his father disappear. He didn't throw the coconut and he didn't cry. Never again would he know love for another human being that wasn't adulterated by another, contradictory emotion.

Slowly, painstakingly, like ants, men would make their paths and civilization and their wars once again, only to have it wash away again.