On my Om

Thankfully the Salon.com 2003 best book list is Jumpha Lahiri-free. Monica Ali’s Bricklane makes the cut. bq. Part Flaubert, part Dickens and all contemporary London, Monica Ali reveals herself, in “Brick Lane,” to be the foremost practitioner of the classic novel in the multicultural mode. Continue reading Bricklane, on Salon 2003 best list

Past few days I have been overcome with a persistent longing to go back to India. Nothing I can say can explain it. Perhaps it is missing my mother’s cooking, or a chance to spend some time with my brother, my nephew and my new sister in law. Or is it some journalistic instinct, which … Continue reading Did someone say, NRI?