by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Mar 9, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Lodi Garden is not a manicured place. Its ambient vegetation is Delhi’s scrubby woodland, the scrappy growth that springs back after a dose of over-civilization. But there are lawns, too, stubbly grassy expanses to play cricket on, to picnic...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Feb 27, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe The taxi driver anecdote gets too much ridicule. I’ve found you can learn a lot by listening to the guy (usually) behind the wheel. Taxi drivers from Boston’s Logan airport to Lexington, for instance, added humanizing texture to my academic...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Oct 9, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appearance at Madison Garden before thousands of Indian-Americans during UN Week was dubbed a “love fest.” It was certainly a tamasha, which is Hindi for big blast: music, dancing, balloons— plus the true...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 30, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeA father (with accomplices)beats his daughter to death right in front of the courthouse in Pakistan’s most sophisticated, most cultured, most refined city—and the police behave as if they’re watching TV! That this could happen in Lahore reveals...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 26, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia L. SharpeHow boring! I’ve been looking for instances of vote rigging, fraud, bribery, intimidation and/or violence during the multi-week polling process in India, but so far my web searches have uncovered a complaint in just one precinct, in a suburb of...
