The Indic Festival Puzzle After graduate school, I moved to a new city in the United States. Socializing with fellow Indians is something one looks forward to, quite earnestly if I may say so, and the obvious occasions are festivals. That is when I started noticing the prescribed timings, and the annual debate over who is celebrating when: Diwali puja on "Kartik, Amavasya, Pradosh Kaal," Ganesh Chaturthi on "Bhadrapad, Shukla Paksha, Chaturthi, Madhyahna Kala." What does any

This day and age we are all busy juggling 100 tasks while our attention is splintered into 1000 fragments. The depth and complexities of life (your and everyone's) - let alone the experience of truly living it - seem to have no place in our rushed conclusions and polarized interactions. I am no exception my self. What's particularly troubling is how my generation, despite (or perhaps because of) this shallow engagement with life's complexities, tends to form rigid, oversimpli