Sometimes in college, disease is rampant and the stress of midterms and a slight cold makes you want nothing more than to retreat home. So I did. Unfortunately, that ended up forcing me to cancel my intended apple-picking trip and left me here without a weekly adventure (because as much as maneuvering ...
Last week I went to go see the new Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig lovechild of a movie, "The Skeleton Twins" (2014). The dramedy follows the fraught but beloved relationship between a brother and sister who are both disillusioned with the current state of their lives. The pivotal moment of the ...
First off, we have to thank everyone who submitted to our Google Doc. You are all our reason to keep writing. An overwhelming theme in the questions was hair. While Pooja has perfect Indian hair -- the kind that weaves and wigs are made of -- I have curly, unruly hair. After trying numerous products ...
If there were any lingering doubts about the New England Patriots, who just a few weeks ago looked hopelessly lost at sea, there aren't any now. Not after New England's decisive victory in Buffalo on Sunday, a game the Pats really needed to win coming off their biggest win of the season against ...
I will tell you up front that this column will not offer enough space to present even a beginning picture of the complexity of race in Ghana. I’ll weave observations throughout all of my columns, but consider this a broad introduction.For starters, you should know that I am white and female. I chose ...
Dear library-goers,I know your struggle. Hours in depressing little cubicles; debating the risk of leaving your laptop to pee due to that third cup of coffee; possibly being squished to death in the moving bookshelves. Everyone can relate. But there are some habits I’ve noticed in the library to be ...
I like to consider myself a pretty adventurous person. I’ve climbed to the peak of a Swiss Alp. I’ve bathed in the Mediterranean Sea under the light of a full moon. I’ve eaten tripe without first asking what it was ... it's stomach. I’ve put belly in my belly. What I’m saying is, I’m ...
Christopher Columbus discovered America, my elementary school told me -- succinctly, so that it was digestible for even the youngest students. My middle school told me that Columbus was not, in fact, America's discoverer. Rather another man, an Italian relegated to the obscurest annals of history ...
On Monday, the NBA announced that the television networks ESPN and TNT would retain the rights to air NBA games for the next nine years. The deal begins during the 2016-2017 season and extends until the 2024-2025 season. I could write about how influential this new deal is for the NBA in terms of gathering ...
Dear SWUG, I’m stuck in the sophomore (sexual) slump ... drought more like ... what do I doooo? -- Hopeless In HodgdonDear Hopeless In Hodgdon, Don’t let the lack of rain ruin your parade. Here are some straightforward suggestions to open up the flood-gates:1. Get set up with a crush at Screw and ...
Last week, two household names announced that they would be spinning off major sectors of their companies into separate entities. First, eBay, the giant consumer-to-consumer e-retailer, voted to spin off PayPal, its online payment service. Then, Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced that it would be spinning ...
Disclosure: I’m not going to talk explicitly about ecofeminism in this week’s column. This column is about a few things mainstream feminists often have difficulty acknowledging.Feminism originated in a white-supremacist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic society. As I said in my first column, ...
When I started writing this column on Sunday afternoon, it was going to be overwhelmingly negative, as only a Patriots post-mortem authored by a native New Englander can be. It was supposed to be about the sudden death of a football dynasty that extends back to when most Tufts students were in elementary ...
So in the past couple of weeks we have received -- from quite a few people -- the question of whether New York Style Delhi is a sex column. Our answer to that is, not exactly. I, Pooja, an apparent sex columnist, much prefer the title of “Advice Aunty." However, I must note that sexual advice ...
Orange is not only the new black, but, more importantly, it was Frank Sinatra’s favorite color. I remember an intense feeling of melancholy overcoming my little five-year-old body when I found out he had died. I spent my youth watching “High Society" (1956) on sick days home from school and ...
Last Saturday, I embarked on a journey to Kendall Square Cinema. After maneuvering the rain, underground traffic and a hike in Uber fares, I found myself rather comfortable with my jacket slung over the back of my reclining chair and a greasy brown bag of popcorn teetering on my lap. As my eyes were ...
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the exigency for the institutionalization of a support system in the NFL. Although we are in the midst of a swift denouement -- public opinion can be maddeningly fickle sometimes -- to the Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson scandals, these types of issues persist.There are current ...
An idea that has fascinated me for a long time, and which is a central focus of my time here in Ghana, is how food connects us to culture. Food is obviously a necessity for life, but in all cultures it has taken on additional social meaning. Food is comfort, community, sympathy, celebration, tradition. ...
I’m getting old.I should have seen it coming, really. All the warning signs were there. I’ve never really liked dubstep. That new Ello thing started to replace Facebook, and I don’t care. Heck, the other day somebody was wrong on the Internet, and I didn’t correct them. Not even their grammar. ...
Dear T riders,Hey you. I get it. It was a long day at work, and you want to get home to that great home-cooked meal, or maybe even a “Beef Chow Fun” Lean Cuisine (that actually exists apparently). But let’s be reasonable and recognize that the train only moves so fast, and nothing you do will ...
