Travel Opens Your Heart
“దేశమంటే మట్టి కాదోయ్, దేశమంటే మనుషులోయ్.” ~ Gurajada Apparao
A country is not the soil; a country is its people.
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...
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...
Brown Eyes on America: Stories, Essays, and Fiction from an Indian American Life
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 my point...
My India Travel Diaries: It’s Not a Destination. It’s an Experience.
Travel Around Bharat “Once you have been to India, the rest of the world feels a little less colorful.” ~ Anonymous
Love For My Lava – A Poem by Rachana
It’s not a recurring dream —it’s my childhood in technicolor. I’m in Eluru again,first-floor balcony,colored baby chicksstrut past the open street sewer. Over the brick wall,police cadets march —stiff, precise,the way colonizers drilled them,looking ridiculous under...
Writer-At-Large – The 2025 Indian-American Documentary – Final Part
Continued from Part I HERE JULY My son sent me pictures of the Harvard university library from his visit to Boston and I lamented to him that it's the right place for me, and then got back to my life here in ATL. After all, I had to wash all our Indian...
Writer-At-Large – The 2025 Indian-American Documentary
Not Your Average Recap The last time I did a pictorial essay of this nature was in 2014. I had then talked about bathroom selfies I had taken, although they didn't make me look like Kim Kardashian. But, more on that some other time. Earlier today, I wrote how...
How I Travel to My Village Poranki Anytime Without a Passport
Poranki, my small hometown a few kilometers from the center of Vijayawada, is a place where your morning walk will take you through banyan groves, tall college buildings, and cow-dung-filled roads. I travel there as much as I can, but when I cannot, I just have...
Nostalgia in Ruins: Watching My Childhood Home Fall and My Memories Rise
- My mother visited her (and mine) childhood home for the last time today as it will be demolished starting tomorrow. Nostalgia, as it turns out, will not have a home anymore. Yet, somehow, we'll have to continue living on. Since I've moved to the US 23 plus...
Visit Vizag in 2022: Explore the City of Destiny’s Stunning Beaches, Parks & Hidden Gems!
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Vijayawada: Where Durga Defeated Mahishasura – Unveiling the City of Victory’s Rich Heritage
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India 2016: My Village’s Point of view
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Writer-At-Large – The 2014 Indian-American Documentary
- Disclaimer: Dear friends and family, life in 2014 for the Somayajulas has been more than spectacular. In fact, our year has been filled with mind-numbing mundane details. Please accept this heavily exaggerated Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year photo...
Writer-At-Large – For an Indian-American, Life is a Layover
- Namaste (Nah-mah-stay)! So, it wasn't really the kind of birthday celebrations I would have nurtured for myself, but come on, why would I have minded spending time with the three most wonderful people I love, my two boys, (one an infant, please note!) and my...