by Vijaya Nagarajan | Sep 23, 2020 | Personal Essays
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrfsyxJvkj4WillpowerMy children, when they were younger, loved the Frog and Toad series. They still do. One of the funny themes, as I recall it now, was on willpower. Would one of them, either Frog or Toad, who were best friends,...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Sep 16, 2020 | Personal Essays
End of March 1972: Rettakudi and Kunnam Villages, Thanjavur District, Tamil Nadu, southern India, India, Northern Hemisphere, Earth. Rettakudi was my father’s ancestral village. Kunnam was my mother’s. Most of the summer we were in Rettakudi, but sometimes we would go...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Sep 10, 2020 | Personal Essays
September 7, 1970. New Delhi, India, Daily, early in the morning, just before sunrise, I hear the pipes surging noisily during the two hour rationed water time. I clamber off the bamboo mat on the floor, dash swiftly to the...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Sep 8, 2020 | Personal Essays
Diary Notes: August 25, 2020 A few early mornings ago in the middle of the night. White, lightning storms raged loudly against the midnight blue sky and clouds raced in and through them, as I had never witnessed before. These lines of thick, bursting, noisy light...
by Vijaya Nagarajan | Aug 6, 2020 | Personal Essays, Uncategorized
Over five thousand years ago, from about 3500 BCE to about 1700 BCE, the Indus Valley Civilization rooted in the Indus river valley spread out over 280,000 square miles, nearly the size of California and Nevada put together. This civilization covered parts of...
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