Category Archives: culture

This Week’s Picks: August 25, 2013/ Back to School

By: Gabriela Yareliz Summer lights are dimming; textbooks beckoning; internships interviewing; summer heat fading; rain storms pouring. It’s New York. You see the nannies with the children of different ethnicities in the strollers; young students laying out at the Washington Square Park on blankets; tourist groups buying Amorino Cones; falafel trucks smoking on corners ofContinue reading “This Week’s Picks: August 25, 2013/ Back to School”

New York: Brooklyn beaches

By: Gabriela Yareliz Yes, a new addition to my New York series. As summer has come to a close, I went with my Russian dolls to the Manhattan beach (ironically in Brooklyn), we ate at Nargis, an Uzbek place in Brooklyn with an amazing Avocado salad, and then we hit up the fruit market, BrightonContinue reading “New York: Brooklyn beaches”

Bunny & Naina

By: Gabriela Yareliz Naina and Bunny. 🙂 So cute. How could you go wrong with a guy named Bunny? (Kabira has been stuck in my head for days.) Bunny: But there is a right time for everything, and today, it’s the right time for this… Naina, will you marry me? Naina: You’ve lost your mind.Continue reading “Bunny & Naina”

Tu Mun Shudi (excerpts)

Translated by: BollyMeaning Too mun shudee tu mun shudi Mun tu shudam tu mun shudee You have become me, you have become me I have become you, you have become me Hai niddar dil daa safar Ho niddar dil de hamsafar Raj key humsey wafayein lenaa Taazaa hawaayein lenaa The journey of heart is fearlessContinue reading “Tu Mun Shudi (excerpts)”

Seeing

“Whatever we see, there is almost always more. It is probably the one thing we can count on—and the one thing we do not. Christian philosopher Esther Lightcap Meek writes, “We labor under the misimpression that we see what we see, that seeing is believing, that either I see it or I don’t.”(3) Perhaps seeingContinue reading “Seeing”

I know in whom I have believed

“He [Paul] assured them that nothing shall fail of all that the Lord hath spoken concerning His tried and faithful ones. They shall arise and shine; for the light of the Lord shall arise upon them. They shall put on their beautiful garments when the glory of the Lord shall be revealed. For a littleContinue reading “I know in whom I have believed”