Tag: India
As a little girl in India growing up in a Hindu household in the ’80s, I appreciated the beauty of Hindu symbolism; the ritual of lighting a lamp…
On a drizzly weekend afternoon, I was at the supermarket and frazzled as I shopped for the week ahead, leapfrogging over numbers, lists, and this-week-only deals, when, without…
I still remember vividly the day I saw, in the newspaper, a photograph of a young woman crouching in front of a fridge, a washing machine and other assorted…
It was a flat box, not very long, and it looked worn out. My mother took off the lid and handed it to me. Inside, nestled in faded…
When you think of the Black Market, you might think of the illegal sale of weapons, smuggled goods, alcohol, cigarettes or even exotic pets. But in India –…