This Week's Headlines - 2/17/2010


Shobhan Bantwal

Shobhan Bantwal is an award-winning author of The Dowry Bride and The Forbidden Daughter. Her third novel, The Sari Shop Widow was released this fall. Her articles have appeared in India Abroad, Little India, and India Currents. And her short stories have won honors and awards in fiction contests sponsored by Writer's Digest, New York Stories, and New Woman magazine. Read More

As soon as I developed the skills to write sentences and paragraphs, I began writing letters to friends, relatives, & pen pals. I was in the fourth grade. Later, as my life became more interesting, I entered essay contests at school and wrote articles for the school newspaper. Read More

I was on winter break in Florida at my parent's house. I had only one thing on my mind: read my new book that I had just bought. Finally! A book that I wanted to read, not for school but for me. It was a long awaited new book by my all-time favorite author, Margaret Atwood, prodigiously titled The Year of the Flood. Instead, I found myself one week later, relaxed and content, but without Atwood’s books having even been cracked open. Why, might you ask? Read More

Literary Spotlight
You only have to read Jacqueline Regis’ book The Daughter of L’Arsenal to know that she was acutely aware of the plight of the restaviks long before the recent tragedy in Haiti. Why? She was one of them. A restaviks, to those who are still not familiar with the term, are children who are given by parents to a household as a domestic servant.
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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

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