My Journey Without My Mother, Part 3: Leaving the Village at Age 11 –...
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—My life in the village lasted until the fifth grade, possibly until I was about 10 or 11. The school building we...
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...
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...
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...
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 8: When Love Spoke Hindi, Dreams Whispered in...
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—Finishing 12th grade with the first class, or Intermediate College as we called in Uttar Pradesh, was a big thing in those...
My Journey Without My Mother, Part 4: The Joy, the Snakes and the Mahabharata–...
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON — Living with my Budhawa Baba in Tadipar during my sixth grade at a brand-new school was an unforgettable chapter of...
My Journey Without My Mother, Part 9: Of a Mother’s Necklace, a Spanish Book,...
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—I don’t exactly remember what triggered my decision to leave Allahabad University, where I had just enrolled for a Master's in English...
My Journey Without My Mother Part-1: A Memoir
By Upendra Mishra
“Well, you might have a bigger pile of mangoes, but you don’t have your mother,” my cousin Gita yelled at me, her...
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...