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“I’m Here Mom,” by Anish Majumdar is a mind-blowingly honest and heart-felt article. Kudos to you and your mom for feeling so deeply. As a fellow survivor who has a close loved one suffering from this disease, I found the article “I’m Here Mom” beautifully written. It hit so close to home that at times I felt I was reading about my own experience. Thank you, Anish Majumdar. The article on schizophrenia touched my heart. My mom went through something similar. Unfortunately I didn’t deal with it as well as Anish Majumdar did. We were never really close. And now it’s too late. Anish Majumdar’s article on his mother’s schizophrenia touched me in a way that no article has ever done. The painful honesty and the final reconciliation are testament to familial bonds. This, my friends, is what pain and love are. Be in peace.
If Barack Obama wins the U.S. presidency he inherits a “poisoned chalice.” America is heading south in every measure and the next president will more or less be a lame duck even before he starts. It is unlikely that the new president will get an opportunity to shine, so we must look to the president after the next one. Even if you support unlimited immigration, (“The Immigration Solution,” March 2008) by putting quotes around European and undocumented, you expose your true colors. One of the strengths of the Indian community has been its desire to follow immigration laws and assimilate in the community while maintaining its heritage. This article turns that around and mixes those great contributions with illegal aliens and against the pre-1965 Americans. The suicidal palm tree in your February 2008 issue is, in fact, the century palm tree. Contrary to the article, this variety of palm tree grows wild in South America and is in no danger of extinction. There are millions of them and each tree bears at least 100,000 fruits. Guyana has so many of these century palm trees that they are considered a nuisance. The letter by Byravan Viswanathan in the March 2008 issue has to be challenged. He claims that George Bush has done enormous damage to this country. This is inaccurate. In fact, George Bush rewarded U.S. companies with tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas to countries such as India and China. George Bush thus helped the Indian economy boom, which benefited from the export of U.S. jobs. I enjoyed the editorial “Chuck de Yadain” (April 2008) reminiscing on the times India dominated field hockey. As someone who remembers well the decades we were world champions, I am saddened that the country has frittered away its talent in the sport. The table detailing India’s performance since the 1928 Olympic Games was very revealing. Frankly, even I had no idea just how successful we had been at the sport, nor how precipitously and quickly we had fallen. I guess cricket is pounding the final nail in the coffin of the country’s national sport that has long been on life support. |
