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Five decades ago, as India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, began visibly ailing, the nation and the world were consumed by the question: 'Af...more

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Sometimes a rut can be a comfortable place to be, but ours was full of too many differences and resentments to be wholly comfortable. I had always had...more

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Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.

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India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.

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flaunting the Kohinoor on the Queen Mother’s crown in the Tower of London is a powerful reminder of the injustices perpetrated by the former imperial ...more

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If America is a melting-pot, then to me India is a thali, a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different, and does not nece...more

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The Mahabharata declares, 'What is here is nowhere else; what is not here, is nowhere.

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Why does man need bread? To survive. But why survive if it is only to eat more bread? To live is more than just to sustain life - it is to enrich, and...more

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Above all, as a Hindu I belong to the only major religion in the world that does not claim to be the only true religion. I find it immensely congenial...more

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minorityhood is a state of mind, Mr. Diggs. It is a sense of powerlessness, of being out of the mainstream, of being here on sufferance. I refuse to l...more

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How do I pray? Not in any organized form, really; I go to temples sometimes with my family, but they leave me cold. I think of prayer as something int...more

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And then, of course, there was the sari itself. What a garment, Randy! There isn’t another outfit in the world that balances better the twin feminine ...more

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Hindu fundamentalism,” because Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals: no organized church, no compulsory beliefs or rites of worship, no single ...more

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An India that denies itself to some of us could end up being denied to all of us. This would be a second Partition: and a partition in the Indian soul...more

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Human beings, to me, are rather like electrical appliances that need to be charged regularly, and prayer is a way of plugging into that charge.