I have been reading about Elisabeth Ney.  I walk by her Hyde Park studio often. A whimsical limestone union of a Roman temple and a towered fortress; now the Elisabeth Ney…

The brutal heat of late summer in Austin suddenly gave way to cool mornings. One such morning I contemplated about what to wear to the graduation party of my friend’s daughter.…

Kali lives at 7000 feet above the sea level in a village crowned by the silvery white ranges of the Himalayas.   I met her recently when I stayed in a…

Rabindranath Tagore wrote an allegorical dance drama in 1933. In his very own style, he rendered in a beatific and non-threatening format, a tale about something dark and sinister. The perils…