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 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 7: Trysts on the Stairs, Destiny’s Irony, and...
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON — Just before my high school exams, my aunt came to stay with us from our village. In Uttar Pradesh, the...
My Journey Without My Mother, Part 6: My First Crush and the Biggest Lie...
BOSTON – After my uncle upgraded our living quarters in Sitapur and I graduated to the 9th grade, my teenage hormones started to stir....
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...
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 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...
My Journey Without My Mother Part-2: A Memoir
By Upendra Mishra
BOSTON—The day I learned that my real mother had passed away when I was about two years old, and that Amma was...
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...
