Memoir 25: From JNU to Lake George — With Pramod Sinha, A Friendship That...
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON — This week, my plan was to write about my time in Mexico—those whirlwind years as Bureau Chief for United Press...
Saved by the President’s Niece: Guns, Gods, and a Spiritual Odyssey Through War-Torn El...
By Upendra Mishra, Author of After the Fall and Precise Marketing
BOSTON — I have wandered through many countries, but few journeys etched themselves so...
Learning to Break the Imposed Societal and Family Dogma: My Journey Without My Mother...
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON — Once I settled into life in Mexico City, I began to rediscover parts of myself long buried under layers of...
My Journey Without My Mother, Part 5: To the Hustle and Bustle of Sitapur...
By Upendra Mishra
A New Chapter Begins
BOSTON — Moving with my Budhawa Baba from Tadipar to Pakuli was both exhilarating and disheartening. I had just...
The Night She Kissed and Disappeared — and the Question That Made a U.S....
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON--Before heading back to Los Angeles, I remember the Delhi bazaars vividly. They were alive with color and chaos. I stocked up...
Where the Women Stayed and the Men Went to War: My Time in 1980s...
By Upendra Mishra, Author of After the Fall and Precise Marketing
BOSTON — My first trip to Nicaragua in the mid-1980s was a shocker.
Even before...
Memoir 23: From Village Roots to a Boston Wedding Via Mexico— A Sherwani, a...
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON — Once I had found my footing in life—emotionally, spiritually, even professionally—I felt ready to take the plunge: marriage. After our...
My Unexpected Encounters with Indian Leaders in Mexico: Power, Simplicity, and Surprise: Memoir-29
By Upendra Mishra, Author of After the Fall and Precise Marketing
BOSTON--Growing up in India during the 1970s and ’80s, celebrity culture was deeply embedded...
Memoir 22: Meeting the Banaras Girl in Boston, 1990
BOSTON — One quiet evening in Mexico City, feeling the weight of years slipping by and the persistent nudge of family expectation, I picked...
Love, War, and the Wire: A Foreign Correspondent’s Coming of Age in Mexico City-...
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON – Finally, after three intense months of proving myself, I received news I’d dreamed of: I was going to be a...
