In Mexico when they celebrate el Día de los Muertos, it’s believed that during that time,  the departed souls return to earth, and it’s for that reason that Mexican people will go to the graves with ofrendas of food and drink and incense. Driving tonight – five years since September 11, 2001 –  I was […]

One does occasionally tear oneself away from the movie / TV / computer screens and actually crack open a book. Thanks to a mercifully kind soul who lugged a copy of the 3.5 pound Vikram Chandra novel Sacred Games thousands of miles across the seas from the state of Tamil Nadu to the state of […]