The Question The week of February 8, 2021, marked the beginning of the second impeachment trial — a political, not a judicial, trial — of Donald Trump, former President of the United States, after the House of Representatives impeached him based on a single article of impeachment, namely the ‘incitement of insurrection’…

When I happened upon NBC’s Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist (ZEP) on my streaming service a month ago, I immediately fell in love. A Powerful Combination: Emotion, Humor, and Music! This television show has so much I find engaging: raw emotion, humor, and music, all blended together in an intelligent script. As a singer myself, I simply love how…

The Question In North America, especially in the United States, human beings are often color-coded as being either white, brown, or black. This type of color-coding is done for a variety of reasons, including for attribution of political and/or socio-economic characteristics. Sometimes the three-fold classification based on skin color is further reduced…

There are myriad ways of being in and interacting with the world. All of these fall on a spectrum. Where you, I, or anyone else fall on this spectrum is determined at least in part by the radius of what I am calling our KARMALENS. Pronounced how it sounds —…

It is that time of year again, when over a billion people across the world celebrate Shakti, the female creative power. It is a time of phenomenal creativity, when building-sized temples, called pandals, are erected from sustainable, recycled, and biodegradable materials in almost every neighborhood in Kolkata, and many other…

United States of America Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away on September 18th, 2020, leaving behind a phenomenal legacy of progress toward equal rights for women and minorities. However, the vacancy she leaves behind in the Supreme Court may hastily be filled in such a manner that notable…

I learned of Chadwick Boseman’s death on August 28, 2020, just a few days after Jacob Blake, a black man, was shot in the back seven times by police as his three young children watched from inside their car in a small town in Wisconsin. I am not black. I…

“…I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ʺmake no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,ʺ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.” …