Maru and the Maple Leaf by Uma Parameswaran, Larkuma Publishing, 2016 (367 pages)   Uma Parameswaran, a retired professor of […]

Territorial integrity is not the only marker of independence

Margaret will be remembered for her probing and incisive mind

Now, I have neither unease to express, nor artistic views to state, nor a CV to display.

Mes quatre médiums se rejoignent tous soit en prenant des chemins différents ou en se mariant les uns aux autres.

sometimes I dream that speaking Hausa would make me feel better

In the rich dread of my predecessors.

No women here. No women at all.

“The walk is a journey of the spirit carried by the body like a good friend, and sitting is an important part of the walking.”

This suffering had demonstrated to me the harsh limitation in my heritage, both Indian and Western.

The sound tech is weaponizing Classic Rock against me – “Start Me Up” by the Stones, “Light My Fire,” by The Doors.

...it would have been easy for me to fantasize that this landscape is the unspoilt one of ancient times, but I am focused instead on a radio program about a rural shooting that happened a few days ago.

Nungak delivers an often humorous, in-your-face account of the history of Nunavik

Tata worked as a waitress at her family's restaurant by the beach.

In her personal life, her friendship with a Zimbabwean fellow doctor earns her a brutal “correction” from her fellow countrymen.

And the ducks give up their dabbling at the lily patch

loops of razor wire fences

Collier was born a boy, but when I knew him in high school, he called himself two-spirit, fluid.

Pay heed to the final words of a profound thinker.