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Pandora's Box: Children killing children!
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Opinions, opinions and more opinions! Thursday, April 12, 2012. I was speaking with one of my best friends in India the other day when she told me about the latest, unfortunate “fad” in the country: children kidnapping children for ransom. I have a hard time saying, let alone believing, the aforementioned sentence. Death has become a game. Survivors provide entertainment. The principal audience: children. These days the world is obsessed with the young adult novel and movie The Hunger Games. People have ...
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Pandora's Box: April 2011
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Opinions, opinions and more opinions! Friday, April 29, 2011. Their graves will not be unknown. We were in Maryland this past weekend, celebrating my aunt-in-law’s surprise 60. Birthday. As always, it was amazing meeting all the cousins and partaking in regular family fun: food, chitchat, cackle, and stories. Everyone has a job. Almost. Everyone keeps busy during the day. One can hope. Why should my profession be given a special treatment? Or why I love visiting them? I don’t because I see some ben...
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Pandora's Box: Have we met before—maybe in another life?
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Opinions, opinions and more opinions! Wednesday, June 13, 2012. Have we met before—maybe in another life? I have always wondered about what happens to people when they die. Death does not put an end to the entirety of one’s being, does it? Depending on the religious faith of the deceased, we either cremate or bury the dead bodies but what really happens after that—what happens to the souls, specifically? I can’t say with any scientific certainty that the grandfather returned as the boy. But it ...I don&#...
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Pandora's Box: October 2011
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Opinions, opinions and more opinions! Thursday, October 6, 2011. Dussehra brings nerdy news. Over 18 months ago, I went to Portugal for a writing residency. The residency was in the southwestern part of the country. The afternoon that I reached, the director drove a bunch of us to see eucalyptus forests. Most of the eucalyptus trees were being replaced with oak trees. That very trip sparked the idea for my upcoming chapbook of poems, Beyond the Scent of Sorrow. To buy in the US, click here. 8220;Sweta's ...
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Pandora's Box: March 2012
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Opinions, opinions and more opinions! Saturday, March 31, 2012. Yes, I protected myself. I am one of those people who have memorable travel experiences. Okay, I am being unfairly polite here. Survival instincts? Name a calamity, manmade or natural, and sure enough I am destined to be there. I am not even kidding. My “travel luck” or lack there of is often part of family banter. It’s your music and your book that carry you home. Also, America has a ridiculous approach to guns and weapons—o...As my husband...
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Pandora's Box: Is your child THE ticket to your social life?
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Opinions, opinions and more opinions! Wednesday, March 28, 2012. Is your child THE ticket to your social life? No one is denying that priorities change when you are in a relationship and/or married. But marriage shouldn’t mean the death of your remaining ties. Most modern, reasonable men don’t want a slave to serve them. They’d much rather be with a person who has their own life too. Hello, there is a beautiful concept called “space.”. I also get annoyed when married women rub their marital status in the...
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Pandora's Box: Revealing the Dirty Indian Psyche?
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Opinions, opinions and more opinions! Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Revealing the Dirty Indian Psyche? Sorry for being MIA. Work, work, and more work had kept me away from you guys. But I did read and watch the news. And a few stories ate me up alive! And many others filled me with shame. A few weeks ago, there was an article in the First Post. From the Delhi police: Why women deserve to be raped. Did I mention that New Delhi isn’t just India’s capital, but it is also the rape capital of the country? Because I a...
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Pandora's Box: March 2014
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Opinions, opinions and more opinions! Monday, March 24, 2014. My Writing Process Blog Tour. Big thanks to Sara Lippmann, author of the forthcoming story collection, Doll Palace. Who is as chic a dresser as awesome she is a person and as talented a writer. To read Sara’s response to the Writing Process blog or to check out her work, click here. What am I working on? How does my work differ from others of its genre? I try to make sense of the world around me through writing. And that. I believe that storie...
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Pandora's Box: Yes, I protected myself
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Opinions, opinions and more opinions! Saturday, March 31, 2012. Yes, I protected myself. I am one of those people who have memorable travel experiences. Okay, I am being unfairly polite here. Survival instincts? Name a calamity, manmade or natural, and sure enough I am destined to be there. I am not even kidding. My “travel luck” or lack there of is often part of family banter. It’s your music and your book that carry you home. Also, America has a ridiculous approach to guns and weapons—o...As my husband...
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Pandora's Box: February 2012
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Opinions, opinions and more opinions! Tuesday, February 21, 2012. Will your child have a criminal record? Timing is everything. Less than a month ago, my husband read a study. In TIME Magazine. According to it, 1 in 3 Americans will be arrested by the time they are 23. It could be a traffic violation or something more serious. But, yes, a criminal record. A couple of weeks later, we were both summoned for jury duty. Weird coincidence, right? America has the highest reported. One of the trial jurors, she ...