Ideas Without Boundaries.
Panthi hoon main us path kaant nahi jisakaaas meri hai jisaki dishaaadhaar mere man ka… I remember as a young child listening to this song, and being deeply moved by the voice that sung it. I didn’t understand what the words meant, but in a Read More …
In spite of growing up in a musical and music loving family, I have to say that for a long time I couldn’t stand two instruments – the violin and the shehnai. I would hear the shrieking sounds and wish someone would give me a Read More …
They are perhaps many a time the unsung heroes who stand behind their children and guide them through the maze. While mothers have always garnered the special soft corner in the heart of their children, some celebrities share their thoughts with KAVITA CHHIBBER on what Read More …
Milton Berle once said, “If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” Though spoken in jest, his words capture the central role of mothers in the lives of their children. Prolific author and motivational speaker Deepak Chopra recalls the days when his Read More …
Designer silk robes, flowing locks, frenzied flocks, people chanting and swaying and prostrating themselves in devotion- the many hues of spirituality come in diverse packages. I’m beginning to lose count of how many gurus and Mas (the divine mothers) I have been invited to interview, Read More …
By Kavita A Chhibber I’m back in Atlanta after an amazing trip to Israel. Since the story has to go to various publications (and to preserve its originality) I will refrain from writing a 3000-word blog. What I want to share here (maybe not so Read More …
She grew up in a railway colony in Ratlam, in India, cocooned in an idyllic, insulated world, attending a European Anglo Indian Railways school. A trip to Bombay for higher studies, introduced her to her first Indian communist, a Hindu girl of 12, whose father Read More …
I’m single because I was born that way” – Mae West Perhaps nothing consumes the South Asian community more than the obsession with marriage. Internet dating services, matrimonial ads in community publications, masala cruises, the ever thriving aunty network, all are geared with one aim Read More …
If I see someone (who) comes in that’s got a diaper on his head and a fan belt wrapped around the diaper on his head, that guy needs to be pulled over,” – Congressman John Cooksey, a Republican member from Louisiana who sits on the Read More …
Sunil Dutt’s family members recall life with one of the doyens of Indian cinema. He lost his father when he was 5, his family was rendered penniless and homeless by the ravages of partition, and yet Sunil Dutt lived through the rough years with passion Read More …