The smell of summer rain and fresh tandoori barbeque delights filled the air as I rang the doorbell. I couldn’t help but feel a familiar bout of anticipation. The same kind of evenings I used to run from when I was a teenager because they would be so mind-numbingly boring.
Toddlers around the world share the common trait of trouble. We are mortified to find that our toddler has stripped naked in front of her grand uncles, snatched the food off of a stranger’s dinner plate, or screamed profanities in the temple. Here are simplified explanations for some of the strangest behaviours we find in our little ones.
Half-half is an identity Anya and her mother Mita have created for themselves amidst a world of sticky labels and even stickier social rules. Contrary to the fear that children of cross-cultural couples will lose a part of their parents’ culture, Anya is an example of the opposite.
Once rare, but now increasingly common, is the phenomenon of Desi girls dating non-South Asians. There are an increasing number of girls, like myself, who have crossed their parents and dated someone who on face value was not an ideal match.
Rimi Kochar says it like it is. She raised two daughters in Indonesia, the younger of whom has been ‘romantically connected’ with an Australian man for four years. She is Indian by origin, but bound by no borders.
Do you think your child will be a doctor some day? Baskaran Bakkiashree’s 7-year-old daughter Selvi might become one
Three idiots. Three suicides. Three things to think about: The equivalent of 336 people killed themselves every day in
Bharatanatyam is generally defined as a classical Indian dance form originating in Tamil Nadu. In my household this definition needs to be extended to include the words “and our parents make us do it”. Although my wife introduced my daughters to the class, the duty has now fallen to me.
“It wasn’t a big thing putting a scarf on your head.” For Rabina Khan, almost twenty years ago, the choice was a simple one. But now, at a time when Muslim expressions of faith are regarded with caution, how do parents approach the issue of whether or not their daughters should be encouraged to wear the hijab?
Deputy global economics editor at the Wall Street Journal, S. Mitra Kalita, talks to South Asian Parent about raising children in different cultures.
“Many a true word is spoken in jest.” The English proverb reveals what we often try to hide in
It’s never easy to give birth. Apart from the months of pain and struggle to set one foot in