THE FEATURED ARTICLES
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March 2016 -
ANJALI ENJETI reviews Gerald McDermott’s "Monkey: A Trickster Tale From India" (ages 4 to 7, HMH Books) and Farhana Zia’s "Child of Spring" (ages 8 to 12, Peachtree Publishers in Atlanta).
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March 2016 -
“Brink”: Honorable Mention, Katha Fiction Contest 2015. A border is a taut string between two countries, on the brink of snapping. Throw it away. Between Kuwait and Iraq, it was there, then gone.
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March 2016 -
Why I no longer care about baseball season: it's now big business and big entertainment, and I don’t care for the product. I do care for the game, the way we want it to be played, with grace, style, and humility.
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February 2016 -
Race, ethnicity, color, culture — negotiating these ‘identity markers’ can be a trying experience, as this young woman expresses in a frank exploration of growing up biracial in America.
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February 2016 -
Silicon Valley innovator Padmasree Warrior is joining the global race to develop electric cars. A technology influencer, her whopping 1.63 million Twitter followers include President Obama.
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February 2016 -
Oopati, my paternal grandmother, told me stories as mesmerizing and peaceful as Anathatha’s were enlivening. At my grandfather’s suggestion, I kept a journal and began to tell my own stories.
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February 2016 -
Parents have encouraged their children to go into fields such as finance, engineering, law, and medicine, because that’s where the big money has been. But that is changing, says VIVEK WADHWA.
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February 2016 -
The eyelids quivered and his right eye opened slowly like a curtain in the movie theater. There was a faint smile on Papa’s lips. He replied as if from behind the clouds on a new moon, “10-4.”
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February 2016 -
Columbia University environmentalist KARTIK CHANDRAN is the only Indian-American among the 24 MacArthur Fellows in 2015. He studies city water using ecology, biology, and engineering.
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February 2016 -
Today, everyone hugs in America. But was it always like that? India has jhappi and aalingan. In America, norms for hugging have changed...and now teaching someone how to hug is a beautiful thing.
