Mother tongue-tied
January 9, 2013
It’s not unusual to worry that if your child doesn’t speak his mother tongue, he will be a cultural outcast. Here’s how to proactively pass on your dialect!
It’s not unusual to worry that if your child doesn’t speak his mother tongue, he will be a cultural outcast. Here’s how to proactively pass on your dialect!
Wedding season is upon us, and we’ve deciphered a few of the most common Hindu wedding rituals!
My father’s lack of English skills was embarrassing. My mother’s kitchen made my nerves twitch. And up until recently I didn’t give much of a hoot about their struggles.
In the 17th century, painters used Indian yellow made from the concentrated urine of cows that lived on nothing but mango leaves. More colour-full facts from chit chat!
On the rare occasion your weight cannot be reduced to a problem, you’re forewarned your body size will only worsen. “Don’t expect to look like a Bollywood heroine when you’re older!”
Drinking is extremely common on college campuses, but South Asian teens may have added reason for unhealthy alcohol and drug use.
Men become unfortunate light bulbs around which angry flies incessantly buzz, making life a cricket match with mom as the bat and wife as the wicket.
The widow is ‘uglified’ to deprive her of femininity. Why does a society that reveres women as devis treat its widows so badly?
My children would never have sex before marriage so I don’t need to discuss contraception with them. Truth or myth?
Chess, kung-fu, Sanskrit, and the decimal system. Discover the common factor and discuss it over chai!
The beauty and brains persona we’re famous for is an inherited position. Desi girls are not a race whose lineage is of oppression and mediocrity.
They asked, ‘Are you going to die?’ — the question I had asked myself in the waiting room.