by Geeta Raj | Aug 31, 2008 | Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing
Reading Time: 4 minutes I place a full bowl of popcorn, freshly popped on the stove, (very little canola oil, very little salt, very little butter) next to the 24-carat gold jhumkhe earrings my mom bought me. I dug them out to wear to Paul Auster’s reading the other...
by Geeta Raj | Aug 31, 2008 | Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Personal Essay
Reading Time: 3 minutes Read Time: Approximately a 5 Minute Read Mom, I figured out a new way to make okra. You loved okra, it was one of those dishes that was ‘in your blood,’ it stood for everything North Indian about you. Lady fingers, bhindi, okra. However you...