Sujatha Bagal is a writer based in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. She also blogs about parenting, travel, books, movies, food and politics at Blogpourri, which she started in Bangalore to document life as an expat in that city.
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This was the first big natural disaster of our 13 years here.
It suddenly struck me that sitting next to two absolute brats on a long plane ride might not be bad after all.
Do we really ever succeed in shaking off any of our multiple identities? Should we even want to?
My whole perspective of the city changed when I stood at the entrance to the Italian Market in South Philly and looked in.
The rising trend in the use of C-Sections for delivering babies is not unique to India.
If anything vies with the cleanliness of the city for my admiration, it is the fact that this little country produced so many luminaries.
Lack of infrastructure and residents' attitude to cleanliness are to blame for the severe shortage of civic sense.
Sticking by your word. Sticking up for the small guy. Healthy seeds to plant in young, fertile minds. But how?
I sat there and bawled. I was the baby and I was the one that needed consoling.
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