Vikram Chandra writes in English, the language of the colonizer, and faces accusations that he's not really an Indian writer.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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When is government surveillance appropriate? Shane Harris talks about the rise of American surveillance, cyber warfare and privacy.
One hundred years ago, Fritz Haber invented the first chemical weapon and convinced the German army to use it. His wife Clara, also a chemist, fiercely opposed her husband's project. When she couldn't stop it, she committed suicide. Judith Claire Mitchell tells the story in her tragic and yet funny novel "A Reunion of Ghosts."
Howard Axelrod was accidentally blinded in one eye in a freak accident when he was in college. Disoriented and depressed, he retreated to an off-the-grid cabin in the Vermont wilderness. He stayed there, alone, for 2 years. Now he's published a memoir about his period of renunciation, "The Point of Vanishing."
For the Aboriginal people of Australia, the concept of "The Dreaming" means an existence with no linear time.
Tia Fuller's life is steeped in jazz. She's a saxophone player who composes, teaches, and has several albums under her belt. If that's not enough, she also spent five years touring the world with Beyonce's all-woman R & B band. Her new album is called "Angelic Warrior."
Sonu Shamdasani is a historian of psychology at University College, London, and editor of Carl Jung's "Red Book."
Robin Swicord wrote and directed "The Jane Austen Book Club." She talks with Anne Strainchamps.
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