By: Robie Darche Wiesner It is 3 a.m. I am nervous, shaky, freaked out as I sit at my computer thinking about h. pylori. The computer said h. pylori […]
Hostage
Cactus Flower
By: Raymond Greiner The desert appears lifeless, void of color. No cathedrals only isolation, heat and blinding sun. One must hike the desert’s long trail to understand it. Hunker down on a […]
Remembering Jawaharlal Nehru
By: Ramlal Agarwal Jawaharlal Nehru was an aristocrat: a connoisseur, a lover of luxury and beauty. And yet, he was a democrat to his fingertips and rarely mixed parliamentary sessions. Mahatma Gandhi […]
Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust: A Double-decker
By: Ramlal Agarwal Ruth Prawer Jhabvala came to India in 1951 after her marriage to an Indian Parsi architect and settled in a posh locality of Delhi. She had earned her M.A. […]
Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient: War and Love
By: Ramlal Agarwal The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje was declared the Golden Man Booker winner, a special one-off award to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Booker Foundation in 2018. It […]
The Marietta Hole
By: Raymond Greiner The year was 1947, my seventh. On Saturday mornings my Dad accompanied me to the YMCA for swimming lessons. We took the streetcar from Vienna, WV to Parkersburg, a […]
Intentional Geometry
By: Raymond Greiner Today I have been thinking about geometric patterns and shapes, their intention and purpose, the obvious, the less obvious, and those, which are more ambiguous. I’m thinking about […]
Tagore’s Legacy of Kabir: Did the medieval mystic help shape Rabindranath’s Gitanjoli?
By: Mozid Mahmud Kabir’s life still holds importance in a society in pursuit of the one true Lord, steeped in religiosity and caste. He was born at a time when the Hindu-Muslim […]
An Echo From The Stars
By: Raymond Greiner Preparing for winter. It is mid-October and the trees are spectacular. I anticipated autumn to be less colorful. We had such a dry summer; driest of the ten […]
The Carousel of Happiness
By: Debra N. Diener I have ridden on the Carousel of Happiness. I remember everything about it so clearly — —bright red/blue/green/gold/purple lights multiplying in number as they flashed off mirrors overhead […]
Literary Yard 