An American friend today emailed me some of his favorite ‘Thanksgiving’ anecdotes. And I in turn sent him one of mine. And then I thought maybe I should share it on my blog too — it might resonate with others as it has with me. This happened when I was living in Washington D.C. [...]
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A Lesson Learnt One ThanksGiving
Posted by Rita Banerji on November 25, 2011
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/302/
There Was A Time When Trees Could Walk About Like People
How do we introduce our children to the world – the larger world outside the home and family? How do we explain to them what this world is and what their connection to it is? Probably it is through the stories we tell them via books and movies. I haven’t seen or read any Harry [...]
Posted by Rita Banerji on July 14, 2011
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2011/07/14/there-was-a-time-when-trees-could-walk-about-like-people/
My Memory of An Assassination
It is strange, how sometimes our memory of a public tragedy is sustained by a totally unconnected personal experience. So it has been for me with Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination by a suicide bomber 20 years ago. At the time I lived in Washington DC, and shared an apartment with a Taiwanese friend in the suave [...]
Posted by Rita Banerji on May 24, 2011
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/my-memory-of-an-assassination/
Undressing
This is one of my early poems that was published under the pen name — Ilina Sen. “Undressing” was first published in the U.K. journal of poetry Obsessed with Pipework. You can read the whole poem here
Posted by Rita Banerji on January 11, 2011
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/undressing/
Are Our Lives in effect “Boxed” Identities?
Delineating human identity—be it national, state or cultural—by drawing lines on the face of the earth is perhaps one of the most illogical and peculiar activities that the human species engages in. Perhaps no other animal species feels such a compulsion to self-assort… In reality, national boundaries are nonexistent. They cannot be touched [...]
Posted by Rita Banerji on December 11, 2010
http://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/are-our-lives-in-effect-boxed-identities/
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