Announcing the Tasveer South Asia Festival online…. Movies, Books and Conversations

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Announcing the Tasveer South Asia Festival online

Usha Akella I Will Not Bear You Sons

Terrific tidbits

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I have the pleasure of sharing the following new works of art by wonderful writers, with reviews and associated events for their powerful voices

Annus Mirabilis, or Year of Wonders

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Dear Friends and Readers, Is it possible? Is our Annus Mirabilis almost over? Really? 2020 is not going to jump back and take another swipe at us, sink down with us to the bottom of the ocean, turning off our living daylights?

Trump Loses

The Three O-s

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I will express strong love for Obstinate Older Oaklike men with thinning hair (as long as it’s not orange); I will let my heart flutter a little now and then; and I will even cry as I smile or laugh like a fool. The latter might happen at 7 pm CST tonight when my president addresses the nation.

On Arundhati Roy, from the writer of Love’s Garden….

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“The targets of the dual assault of communal fascism and neo-liberalism are the poor and the minority communities (who, as time goes by are gradually being impoverished.) As neoliberalism drives its wedge between the rich and the poor, between India Shining and India, it becomes increasingly absurd for any mainstream political party to pretend to represent the interests of both the rich and the poor, because the interests of one can only be represented at the cost of the other.”