Lost Boys: A Soldier’s Post from Afghanistan
Serving in the US Army, Rajiv Srinivasan captures a Taliban and learns compassion for his enemy.
RAJIV SRINIVASAN
Whose Honour is It Anyway?
As the male ego is hurt, murder gains acceptability and is even glorified once you call it honour killing.
ANURADHA BAKSHI
An Afghan's Eulogy for his Mother
Damn this life when I found myself and left you and dad in search of food to survive. Because you didn’t wait to see your farmer son come back to you.
NASIM FEKRAT
My Grandmother, the Chinese Censor
“Don’t write anything bad about China,” says my grandmother. China was too often negatively portrayed in the West, and so I had a special responsibility…
DEANNA FEI
Fighting the Evil: A Mother's Reflections
As mothers continue to lose their children to war, Usha D. Acharya wonders why man persists in using evil ways to fight the evil.
USHA D. ACHARYA