The looming memorial of the September 11, 2001 tragedy has me thinking about things left behind.
The looming memorial of the September 11, 2001 tragedy has me thinking about things left behind.
My newest expat+HAREM post, “With/out borders”, is featured on their beautiful site for the next week.
A She Writes blog post by an African-American woman calling for “White Ambassadors To Help Me Cross Over” provokes a blog series, in which this piece is one of seven reactions.
My friend Catherine’s amazing expat+HAREM post “Death at a distance”, one of the most powerful essays I have ever read, has left me processing a great deal of unresolved grief.
What do the expat+HAREM, Dialogue 2010 and Lady Gaga have in common?
An explosive encounter with a racist Czech granny prompts me to once again consider why it is I continue to live in Prague.
The name on my birth certificate reads Sezin Piotruszewicz Menekshe Rajandran. I was named with the same initials as my grandfather on my father's side, SPM Rajandran. He died just months before I was born, ...
The first in a series of reflections on the incredible Dialogue 2010, curated by Rose Deniz and on the topic of hybrid identities and location.
In 1973 Erica Jong wrote the feminist anthem, Fear Of Flying. The heroine, Isadora, though terrified of flying, boards a plane and her subsequent journey leads to a spiritual and sexual awakening that was the one of the first of its ...
My first ever guest blog has gone live at expat+HAREM, a neo-cultural hub for expats and voyagers. http://www.expatharem.com/2010/02/25/the-inside-outsider/