Daily Archives: September 21, 2012


encounter resembled a strange

My first IPL encounter resembled a strange, surreal amalgam of various American sporting experiences. At first, I felt the familiarity of attending a college football game with all the Kolkata Knight Rider jerseys around me and the collective feeling of a unified city. Then something happens a fight breaks out in the crowd and the […]


dizzying array of organizations

There are a dizzying array of organizations that claim some link to September 11 victims. Some profess political neutrality: Families of September 11, Voices of September 11th, Tuesday’s Children. Others have thrust themselves into the charged debates over torture or the so called Ground Zero mosque: 9/11 Families for a Safe Strong America has squared […]