The Art of Resiliency
The grass does not shine as bright green on our surrounding hills anymore. While some cold towns in the U.S. are buried by mountains of heavy white snow, here, in Prashanthagiri, a powerful hot sun ho ...
The Dance of Diversity and Fusion
Pink, blue, green, gold, and many other colors flashed in front of my eyes as I sat and watched Bryn Mawr College's South Asian Women culture show this past weekend. There was so much diversity, from ...
Namaskaram!
The first Malayalam word I learned when I arrived here in Kerala was namaskaram. It is a word used to greet others but has much more depth and meaning compared to an ordinary hello as would be said in ...
Stocking Up in Calicut
I’m sitting in a jeep, bumping and twisting along the roads on the way out of Valad. I sit and listen to 4 of the women from the tailoring center chatter excitedly in Malayalam as the village disappea ...