Indian men by default have a special, elevated status, simply by being born male. We could be lazy good-for-nothings, ignorant fools, crooks, wife-beaters, or worse…
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This man, Munna Lal, in my hometown of Lucknow, is at the very bottom of the food chain in a country whose corrupt politicians manipulate and exploit the poor to make themselves and the rich even richer.
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Sometimes I disappear into the wilderness of Namibia, the sanctuary of solitude or the shapeless innocence of music because the realities of our pitiless world are too heavy, too hard to handle.
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It’s with exhilaration but also sobriety I return from Africa. It’s a continent of limitless potential and beauty but also riddled with cruel injustices.
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Yesterday morning around 8 am, not even 24 hours after a terrorist gleefully killed eight innocent people and injured many others, my teenage daughter reached her school near Cooper Union to see police swarming around a horrific crime scene right outside the main entrance.
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