[amazon_link id=”0385496052″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]Title : What The Body Remembers Author : Shauna Singh Baldwin Genre : South-Asian Publisher : Doubleday (Random House) Pages : 471 Rating : 4/5 While I’ve read many female-centric desi novels, I’ve read very few stories of women during partition, and even fewer from Punjabi writers. In WTBR, there […]
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DAYA’s Free Seminar on Anger Management
[amazon_link id=”1886298041″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ][/amazon_link]For folks in Houston here is a free seminar on Anger Management this Saturday, courtesy DAYA: Don’t Cry Foul, Learn to Dodge Life’s Curve Balls A seminar to help men and women play fair in the face of anger Saturday, September 15, 2012 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Location: Hilton […]
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I’ve been watching Aamir Khan’s Satyamev Jayate regularly since it started. Public figures and Bollywood stars often shy away from telling it like it is so I can’t appreciate him enough for stepping up and speaking up about various ills so ingrained in Indian society. He has so far done shows on various issues like […]
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I look forward to reading and reviewing Little Night by Luanne Rice. It releases June 5th and deals with themes of domestic violence and how it affects the entire family. In winter 2011, Luanne interviewed women whose lives have been touched by abuse. Three women told their stories on camera, including Luanne, who was in an […]
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