My father took pains to impress upon me the fact that first loves end. He told me about the time that he spotted his own former first love on the street as an adult and how unkind the years had been to her. It would have been better to have left well enough alone, he […]
While Indians don’t worship monkeys per se, monkeys are considered sacred by many and revered by many others for their association with the Hindu monkey god Hanuman. You’ve seen photos of these under-regulated primates, usually rhesus macaques, roaming freely through the streets of New Delhi and other Indian cities. It can be problematic. In 2003, […]
At least I’m not the kind of person who sees a turtle crossing the road and swerves to hit it. (Ref: AP news article.) In all honesty, though, it would be more accurate for me to say that I’m no longer such a person. When I was a kid, there was a place in my neighborhood where dime-sized […]
