by Ranjani Rao | Aug 18, 2021 | In words
What’s a Lemon Squeezer Doing in My Vagina – A Memoir of Infertility by Rohini S Rajagopal The book: “When you are denied something, its value is grossly overestimated in your mind. I rejected all the gifts in our life and dwelled on its single deficiency. Pregnancy... by Ranjani Rao | Jul 17, 2021 | In words
Purpose is a thing you build, not a thing you find ~ John Coleman In my recent op-ed for the Straits Times, I wrote about the value of work and the worth of an individual. In it I recalled an interaction that happened over twenty years ago in California. When I took... by Ranjani Rao | Jul 9, 2021 | In words
Lost at 15, Found at 50: Travels, Trials and Tribulations in Foreign Lands by Ashwini Devare The book: From the Soviet Union’s lron Curtain to Burma’s Bamboo Curtain and Sikkim to Seoul, this memoir follows the journey of a young girl whose life was a... by Ranjani Rao | Jun 30, 2021 | In words
In 2006, I was going through the most painful experience of my life in Hyderabad, India. I had walked out of my marriage of sixteen years and found myself practically homeless in a city that was not my own. My child was eight years old. Although I had a job, I had no... by Ranjani Rao | Jun 8, 2021 | In words
Daddykins: A Memoir of My Father and I by Kalpana Mohan The book: When journalist Kalpana Mohan’s elderly father falls ill in Chennai, she is on the next flight over from California and the home she has shared with her husband for three decades. Caring for her...
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