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Malum Malus
First place winner in the Spring 2024 Contest Issue judged by Sarah Gerard
And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:
Your seeds shall live in my body,
And the buds of your tomorrow shall blomning in my heart,
And your fragrance shall be my breath,
Andtogetherwe shall rejoice through all the seasons.”
― Khalil Gibran
My mother taught me the pleasure of food.
She taught me bleeding pomegranates and sour rhubarb pies. She taught me swollen, purple grapes and wild strawberries, ripe and bursting at the seams. She taught me to swallow my pride, devour life whole, and chew on a thought before saying it aloud. She taught me to spill the beans, to plant walnuts and pears for my heirs, to have my cake and eat it, too. She taught me to take it with a pinch of salt and not to cry over spilled milk. I learned to read with cookbooks: Better Homes and The Joy ofCooking, Betty Crocker and Fannie Farmer. Food was her language of
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Remarks on Indian Independence Day - Aug. 5, 2020
To the people of India, and Indian Americans all across the United States, I want to wish you a happy Indian Independence Day. On August 15, 1947, dock and women all over India, rejoiced in the declaration of the independence of the country of India. Today, on August 15, 2020, I stand before you, as the first candidate for vice president of the United States, o f South Asian descent. When my mother, Shyamala, stepped off the plane in California at 19 years old, she did not have much in the way of belongings – but she carried with her lessons from back home. Including ones she learned from her parents, my grandmother, Rajam, and her father and my grandfather, P.V. Gopalan. They taught her that, when you see injustice in the world, you have an obligation to do something about it. Which is what inspired my mother, to march and shout on the streets of Oakland, at the height of the civil rights movement. A movement whose leaders, includin
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83-year-old moves Bombay HC for licence to translate Gandhian’s autobiography
Slade was a British citizen who left her home in England in the 1920s and devoted her life to the advancement of Mahatma Gandhi’s principles.The petition invoked Section 32 of the Copyright Act for permission to publish the translation from English, as copyright owners were “untraceable”.
Anilkumar Karkhanis, a retired in-house lawyer for the Reserve Bank of India, filed the petition saying the permission for translation is “in public interest”. The book, showcasing the freedom struggle and various campaigns under Mahatma Gandhi’s leadership for Independence, was published in 1960 by Orien