I just listened to Death, Sex and Money – which is rapidly becoming my favorite podcast ever. This episode was on people who live alone: what they like about it, what bothers them, how much it costs – both financially and [...]

It doesn’t snow here in Dehradun. Our coldest day this week was 37 F (that’s a little under 3 Celsius) and with a daughter in Chicago (6 F; – 14 C) and a son in Boston (25 F; – 4 C), I know enough not to complain. Except! [...]

When the news of the Peshawar massacre of school children broke, I was deep into watching a political thriller called The State Within, a BBC production recommended by Jesse Kornbluth at Head Butler. It is a seven-part edge-of-seat drama which [...]

The article below appeared in Commonweal – a magazine in New York for which I am a regular columnist. It’s a strange time for people with disabilities. Among the general public in most developed countries, there is more knowledge, [...]

The quote I chose to go with the photo in my high school yearbook was:  “With joy shall you go out and in peace shall you be led. Mountains and hills shall bow down before you and all the trees of the world shall clap their hands!” I [...]

Writing at the end of a long and trying day in which our work was maligned and our integrity questioned may not be the best idea. But writing is therapy and – usually – the only way I can make sense of anything. This morning, for [...]

A little girl was raped in our neighborhood a few months ago. She is a child with a mental handicap and so, even though we didn’t know her until this happened, she’s one of ours. The bare bones of the story (and all our bones feel [...]