Features
THE FEATURED ARTICLES
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Books: Journeys to acceptance
August 2011 -
Exposed to stereotypical conclusions about her faith, Maria Ebrahimji and Zahra Suratwala compiled and edited the prose of 40 stories of Muslim women who share personal moments of knowing, learning, identifying and owning Islam.
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Parenting: Not Sleeping Like a Baby
August 2011 -
We all crave a good night’s rest, but few of us manage to get enough sleep and wake up refreshed the next morning. Add an energetic toddler to the mix and the challenge of sleeping well attains a whole new dimension.
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India Smiling: Bharati Mukherjee on Miss New India
July 2011 -
In charting Anjali’s journey from Bihar to Bangalore, Mukherjee makes her own discovery of a changing India, which she left in the early sixties. “How you view the ‘new India’ is a function of your vision,” Mukherjee notes in an interview with Khabar.
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Dhoom Machaye Kruti: From Suburban Atlanta to Indian National TV
July 2011 -
For the Kruti team, finishing in the Top 25 in America’s Got Talent in 2010 was a thrill in itself. But representing America in a reality dance show in India was not only a first for them but also an entirely different kind of experience.
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Living with Georgia’s HB 87
July 2011 -
The questions we have been receiving from many South Asians bear answering, so that everyone is prepared to respond appropriately, and within the constitutional boundaries, to questions from employers and law enforcement officials.
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Baba Ramdev's Anti-Corruption Crusade
July 2011 -
Baba Ramdev’s political theater may have roused millions of Indians, but can his antics move the nation ahead in the all-important fight against corruption?
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Arundhati Roy talks about political activism and more.
July 2011 -
“They are trying to keep me destabilized,” notes activist Arundhati Roy, who is also a best-selling author of polemical nonfiction and a Booker Prize-winning novel. Here she talks about her political activism in India, why she no longer condemns violent resistance—and why it doesn't matter if she never writes a second novel.
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Katha Fiction Contest, 1st place winning entry: Tapas and I
July 2011 -
Why should he be happy? Does he not understand that to be happy was like building a big machine? Every nut and every bolt needs to be built by chiseling on hard steel. If everything is perfect—then, and only then—you can be happy. How could he be so happy without any rhyme or reason?
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Gandhi: A Rorschach Figure
June 2011 -
Gandhi is a Rorschach figure. Where I might see his brahmacharya vow as disciplined celibacy, Lelyveld considers it sublimation and allocates a chapter to what he calls Gandhi’s platonic relationship with Hermann Kallenbach.
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Demystifying the Mahatma
June 2011 - In our interview, Lelyveld, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former editor of the New York Times, says what he really set out to do was to examine the evolution of Gandhi the social visionary, a “complicated figure” who continued to “struggle with self and doubt until his last days,” and the process of how the man became a Mahatma.
