Thinking Got Loud

4 pm at the Starbucks near the Germantown Mall in Memphis.  The time and place have not changed since 2001.  As is always the routine, I a...

The message on the onesie read, “Fabulous, just like Mommy.”  There was one to make the Dad happy too - “Handsome like Daddy.”  Next to the...

“Steve, I am seriously addicted to coke!”  These were words that I had uttered to my good friend Steven Stewart during the first month ...

“People talk about how certain products are Made in India or Made in China .  Similarly, I was made by Manivannan” – these were the words ...

My grandpa’s younger brother did not have any grandchildren of his own.  While in her late 20s, his daughter – his only child - had made th...

I make very good chai tea latte, I am told.  But I have not made a single cup of tea for my grandpa.  He used to relish his evening cup of ...

The early 2000s was a period when I was discovering old classics of Kamal Hassan.  His work, from the late 80s till Hey! Ram, had consiste...