Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, published in January 2011, detonated a cultural conversation that had been building pressure for years — a direct challenge to Western parenting orthodoxy from a Yale law profe...

My Heart Aches as I sit in the stillness of this night I just said goodbye to my friends who filled my heart with delight The weekend was filled with smuch love there was simply no doubt this gift came from above They dr...

Valentine's Day generates enormous commercial activity and a recurring set of cultural arguments — about its Hallmark-holiday origins, its exclusionary pressure on the single, its reduction of romantic love to a single a...

The connotations of the word relationship conjures likely images of couples bonded in a marital bliss (or possibly in a lack thereof), or those living together outside of marriage. Undoubtedly, pressing contemporary issu...

Today I miss you, you've been gone for a week I can imagine your smile, your grin cheek to cheek Etched in my mind are visions of your face Moments in my memory of how you make my heart race Your Beauty, Your Passion, th...

For Indian Americans and the broader South Asian diaspora in the United States, the American holiday season from Thanksgiving through New Year's presents an annual negotiation between two cultural calendars, two sets of...

The period after a major disruption — personal, professional, or collective — carries its own particular quality of silence. The noise of the crisis has passed. The adrenaline has metabolized. What remains is the harder,...

The phrase "rather than" sits at an interesting junction in English usage — seemingly simple, yet capable of creating genuine ambiguity depending on what it connects. Writers who learn to deploy it precisely find it an e...

Understanding The topic "" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement requires nuance and multiple perspectives. Multiple Perspectives Few issues have obvio...

It took me a while to figure it out, but I did – brown is beautiful! And I'm not talking brown chocolate icing on a brown chocolate cake, but the color of my skin. The realization didn't come easily. It took a move to a...