India made Micah cry….It wasn’t the makeshift blue shanties and lean-tos, or the women thrashing clothes on rocks, the men squatting to defecate in the shade of Peepal trees, or the naked, cinnamon-colored children cooling themselves in puddles–all this was too familiar, even nostalgically comforting, to faze her. What wrenched her, instead, was the unnatural […]
I read the words of Jesus Christ, and I realized that they were true…I used to think that I had found God, but I believe it is more accurate to say that He found me. – Hindu-born Christian Convert Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal on How and Why He Became a Christian Source: Washington Post, May 12, […]
Pulling myself out of the languorous stupor I had slipped into in recent months, I watched two French movies recently. And what a delight the two turned out to be. With a pleasing jab, they restored the joie de vivre in my life. Avenue Montaigne Directed by Danièle Thompson, Avenue Montaigne (2006) is less like […]
What is shocking in India is this picture of someone practising open defecation and in the other hand having a mobile phone. – WHO Director of Public Health Maria Neira Of all the shitholes and hellholes in the world, nothing can match that stinking eyesore known as India. No other country comes even remotely close […]
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was […]
Full Time Diarrhea Expert Part Time Microsoft Adviser If you ask me, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates should stick to philanthropy. You know, like saving Africa’s children, getting clean water to remote Indian villages and ridding the world of diarrhea, malaria, pneumonia and other diseases. And things like the Internet, Bill should leave to the experts. […]