On How To Write.
“To me, a short story is a conversation between writer and reader, since only the writer can speak, she must take care to respect the reader, to avoid telling him what to think, to say as little as possible and imply the rest with metaphor, ellipses, allusive dialogue, pauses.” ~ Edith Pearlman on Writing
My Wishlist of Wonder: The Wild, Weird & Wonderful Places I Want to See – The Series
Travel Opens Your Heart We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves.~ Pico Iyer
24 Hours in Mumbai: A Night of Travel, India and the Value of Time
Recently, I had the chance to pass through Mumbai for 24 hours. I took Etihad, and the 14-hour flight was ultra comfortable because I slept as soon as I got into the flight at Atlanta and watched two brain-rot movies before they told us we were landing at Abu Dhabi. I...
What Tomorrow Holds: A Powerful Short Story on Aging by Nadella Anuradha – English Translation of రేపటి చింత
“Mani!” The sound of her name pulled Mani from deep sleep. She did not move at once. Slowly, she turned toward the other side of the room, where Peddamma garu slept. In the dark she could make out the old woman sitting on the edge of her bed. Oh no. I hope she doesn’t...
Carl Sagan: The Universe, Humanity, and the Pale Blue Dot
https://youtu.be/9LStIaPBU8w - Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - What Is Takes To Be Human Every time I come across Carl Sagan’s quotes on my social media feeds, I pause. I take time to reflect on what he was trying to say. When I...
The Modern Charm of Vintage Rome: A Journey Through Historic Rome
The Modern Charm of Vintage Rome We arrived in Rome at 8 in the morning one day and stepped into a beautiful early-morning hush of a city that’s already centuries old. The airport has a grand name and the gorgeous Vitruvian Man plastered above the baggage claim...
The Worth of Our Eyeballs: Meta, Social Media and the Price of Our Children’s Attention
The Worth Of Our Eyeballs Meta, the social media giant, is worth $1.4 trillion. And today after years of whistleblowers, investigations and lawsuits over the mounting evidence about what social media is doing to children, a bipartisan coalition of 51 attorneys...
LIVE 🚨 | It’s Kind Of Chic | What In The World – Live With Rachana | Ep. 16
https://youtube.com/live/2g8QGHIM8po?feature=share - Background Once upon a time, I had created a Youtube series called: What In The World By Rachana, where we can travel around the world together to see what’s happening and if there’s anything to learn...
My Wishlist of Wonder: The Wild, Weird & Wonderful Places I Want to See – II
Creating a Wishlist of Wonder I want to travel to every corner of the globe and see it with my own eyes. I want to wander into places and homes that will expand my world view and help me understand how others are sustaining the daily grind. I love seeing how...
Dropped My Heart in the Middle of the Canadian Rockies: Banff, Jasper, Yoho and Beyond
Wild. Vast. Canada. The land was ours before we were the land’s. ~ Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist When I visited the spectacular Canadian Rockies, time stood still for me. The turquoise lakes framed by jagged glaciers, the silver-tipped mountains,...
Where the Mind Is Free: My Tribute To The Power Of Silence – Read by Rachana
- Want To Listen To The Article Instead? - Solidarity to Solitude When I read Sylvia Plath's poetry, I often think of the manner in which she died. Putting her head in an open oven and killing herself, while her little children slept in the...
The Human Arc in the Attention Economy: How Algorithms Are Changing Love
The Human In Digital Debris I'm deeply interested in our anthropological evolution as humans and love studying how our lives have changed since we started living both online and offline. And here are some current dating trends that worry me about how our...
Brown Eyes on America: A Fiction Anthology of Indian American Women
Fiction: On Life, Love And Our Desires I am a teller of stories and therefore an optimist, a believer in the ethical bend of the human heart, a believer in the mind's disgust with fraud and its appetite for truth, a believer in the ferocity of beauty. So, from...
Can a Child’s Life Be a True Adventure? Teaching Kids Agency, Discipline & Independence
These days, adventure for a child can be lounging on the couch while managing to navigate between screens to play their favorite games. And that's because we're uncomfortable with the idea of allowing our children to get familiar with boredom. And also, because we...
LIVE 🚨 | It’s Time To Stop Posting | What In The World – Live With Rachana | Ep 14
- Background Once upon a time, I had created a Youtube series called: What In The World By Rachana, where we can travel around the world together to see what’s happening and if there’s anything to learn from what we see and hear. Unfortunately, I lost the...
Emotional Self-Regulation in Children: Raising Resilient Kids
When I became a mother for the first time, I spent those initial days fretting over my son's little body and our surroundings, making sure nothing bad could happen to him. I was, after all, in charge of his wellbeing. At the time, that felt like the only duty I had....
The Rainbow Never Left Me: A Poem For Our School Reunion by Rachana
You left —But the laughter never did. Those memories are never silent. Even when our feet walked the tree-lined campus,Our heads were conquering the worldWith the courage of our glorious dreams. Giggles over boring lectures,Destroying the benchesWith doodles of our...
Kareena at Saqqara: A Mistaken Identity Lands Me a 1000 Camel Trade
Saqqara is an ancient necropolis, the city of the dead, that's an hour from Cairo depending on how enthusiastically your driver and tour guide interpret Egyptian road rules. Our first stop was the tomb of the Royal scribe Kagemni, a tall handsome Egyptian man, who...
The Memoir Industrial Complex: Fraud, Fabricated Heroes and the Business of Personal Mythology
When the Hero Story Is a Lie Kids, close your eyes and ears. Fraud might be the only way to fame. Whenever I discover fraudulent writers or phony people who become celebrities through public deceit, my blood boils. And my 17 year old, who shares a working table...
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