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Kindness, empathy, and paying taxes

Did Socrates have new year resolutions

A leader's pain ...

Those were the days, my friend

In Brief ...

What's love got to do with it?

'Twas the night before ...

You are permitted to air your grievances

There is a cure for labor pains

Here goes the sun

Croc News

The mall is dead. The office is dying.

"D" words

In brief ...

Harold and Kumar ... vote for trump?

Well-rounded

Brown leader of a white country

Oh, men! ... Everything is comedy

Looking for a low-fat diet?

Jews and Arabs

In brief ...

Step (8) into health

A balding man cooks ...

Are there recipes for life?

Thinking about tomorrow

Does Amazon sell brain shields?

Big is not beautiful

Do the right thing

Ding dong. Kissinger is finally dead!

Racists gonna be racists

The damn immigrants

Students don't go to Harvard for online classes

They steal our attention

The theaters of war

Marking time

Climatarian Cooking

Broken Record

One act of the great tamasha comes to an end

Vox Populi

Vax on, vax off

A salty post?

An unplanned pregnancy ... and abortion

The lowly valued humanities

The lonely reading club

When browns work for white supremacists

A festival of lights

Those who can't, teach ... for nothing!

From Madurai ... to Monmouth?

A handsome dude goes after carbon

I wish I knew how to quit you

Deport the illegal immigrants!

War and citizenship

A never ending story

No money for the humanities in a rich country!

When Léopoldville became Kinshasa

An Indian at the Tokyo Tribunal

Disco Dancer

Not a lecturer, but a listener

War and Peace

Is this the real life?

Are we better off today than three years ago?

Whatever happened to secular politics?

Sports is sports, and education is sports?

The 66-feet battle between Pakistan and Afghanistan

This land is your land, and this land is my land

In no uncertain terms

What is common to Naples and Varanasi?

Miss Saigon

How about those who didn't go to college?

Finally, a four-day work week is here

I couldn’t have cared less

Tyrannosaurus Elderex

Milking Authoethnography

Religious Wars

These feet are made for walking

We don't need to worry about AI, yet

Quantity over Quality?

Call me, call me any, anytime. Call me

Cultural Money Exchange

I drowned in the water

No Visa For You!

People who need people

Could you care less?

Mass production of humanoid robots

Sweating it out

What do women want

The highly cultured France

Stupid is as stupid does

Who shall perish by water and who by fire?

Vegans get no R-E-S-P-E-C-T

Allergic to people?

Who cares for liberal democracy

Once Colonized. Now, a Colonizer.

Who's on first? Bharat, India, and Pakistan

On Vacation

This is not normal

Roman Vacation

Truthful storytelling

Home under assault

As you like it

An "untouchable" topic

When the past echoes

An easy approach to bring people together

You can run ... but cannot hide

Passing ... and failing

What's common to Oregon and Tamil Nadu?

Moonstruck ...

The time when a corporation died from a heat stroke

Life is a B*ch

Buy. Try. Return. Repeat.

The Nutcase Party

Fake Everything

Life flows on within you and without you

From Neyveli to New Mexico

Old photo. Old clothes. Old man!

Independence Day

Defending Freedom and Human Rights

Photos, photos, everywhere

Nothing seems normal

Peasant-envy

Until skin color do us part

Blowing smoke up your ass

Cherry on top

Taking on the patriarchy

Indians don't care much for basmati rice

David Brooks is not a big fat idiot

Is life an individual or team sport?

The slowly turning wheels of justice

Are you listening?

Have I told you about "sanitas per escam”?

Rapeseed teacher

It was forty years ago today ...

On Human Welfare

Living the dream

Truthiness and Bullshit

Nickel and dime

Barbenheimer Brouhaha

The foreign eggplant

"Indian food" misrepresents India

We come in peace

Ash Land

3 million dollar book

Oh My God!

Buoy and millionaires

No reason to complain

Three towns in one day

Is this what humor means?

A spiral perfection

The China Problem

Math in bed

On the joy of missing out

The privilege of cultural capital

Humans and invasive species

Degrees of governance

A synapse a day will keep dementia away?

How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land

Swimming in my thoughts

Progress and Plastics

Thus ends Pride Month

Dare to question?

Pilgrims and Pilgrimages

Return to sender

Just hanging out doing nothing

Lifestyles of the rich and famous

Life and the mind

A thousand years of foreign rule

Free at last

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die ...

Outstanding Students

Feeling hot, hot, hot, oh, Lord

"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" is a Father's Day tribute?

What we do all day

Natural intelligence is for losers?

What do we owe each other?

Dowry, Death, but no Divorce

When rains fail

A life in gratitude

The browning of America is a good thing

The silence of the clams

How open is your calendar?

The politics of sport

Batshit Crazy!

Three-letter parties are four-letter words

Is it Indian food if an Indian cooks it?

A rootless STEM

A big post about small talk

Constant craving

I have never been busy in my life

The gig jig was always up!

This I guarantee about your future

Man rams truck at White House barriers

On electing disgusting candidates

Should a high school student ask me for advice

Are you excited about artificial intelligence?

When a strongman runs for re-election

This post has not been preponed

A kiss is still a kiss

I am a part of all that I have met

This blog is not banned

Paradise lost!

Thoughts on Mother's Day

The Chinese connections

People talk

In place of a village elder

Swingers Not Allowed

No No, Nanette, with a Democratic President

Men and their baggage

Getting ready for King Charles' coronation

Who got your goat?

Americans do what Americans do

Labor takes a break

Fertility revolution

It's a plane. A bird. No, a bat!

The college theatre

Superfoods and super-spies

Love and marriage

Out of college and living abroad

Beggars and the homeless

Forget saving the planet

Walk the walk

Bride and Bachelor

Degrees of Dollars

War and no peace

Why are dogs superior to goats?

If you don't believe me ...

Silence is golden

New year greetings

Writers and readers

Those damn tourists!

Courage and Cowardice

Red America wants to crush Blue America

Maybe work is not where real friends are

Religious nationalism

When sirens tempt

Ending reincarnation is in our control?

Democracy in India

Peace be with you

While we were on indictment watch ...

The pointlessness of writing for humans

The ant celebrates a year in retirement

It was two years ago today ...

Are you happy?

Don't say gay

AR6 or AR-15?

Leave the memo, take the jalebi

A fruit for all seasons

Leisure Suit Sriram

The bald man speaketh

Inquiry into existence

Retirement Talk

Multi-millionaire elephants

The meaning of milk

You like tomato and I like tomahto?

The future of democracy will be decided in 2024

All about Eve

Born to be free

Able was I ere I saw Elba

The Li-ion king

Tomorrow's another day

Blowing in the wind

Does humanity need Humanities?

Touchy-feely

What did your great-grandparents do?

The basket case

And the answer is ...

War, and no peace

Ditch diggers wanted

Do you hear me?

The political bullshit called "Made in America"

The clear blue skies of New Delhi

Selfish or selfless?

I have a 5-star rating

My sweetheart from Venezuela

My funny valentine

What did I miss?

Froideur?

Should I stay, or should I go?

Losing track

Too loose near Toulouse

I don't care to watch the Super Bowl

Sunny side down

Al dente

Red sky in the morning

Tears for antibiotics

Retirement is Groundhog Day!

Hey good lookin, what you got cookin?

The Man from Macondo

The "untouchable" Gandhi

Don't mistake a crocodile for a log

Whiteness on brown skin

The other Tibet

Men in the 21st century

If there's something weird, Who you gonna call?

Embracing a nude

Not my problem

Soothing a savage breast

I had my quota of Kota

Woofles and Whiskers

Mortally wounded

Anna in Cuticura

September with Mrs. Campbell

The samosa caucus in DC

Pulses maintain my pulse

Dead gods tell no tales

Ghee dripping down my hand ...

All that clutters is not gold

Eat your way through climate change

There is loneliness ... and there is loneliness

The world is your oyster

Wet throughout the year

Fashion factories

The land of gold

Sacred mountains

Putting the Saks blanket away

Wrapped in a blanket