It’s not often that I’m able to attend Indian cultural events locally, but I was fortunate to see a performance of Naga-Mandala, a production created by a famous modern playwright. The plot, by Girish Karnad (1938-2019), was based on Indian folktales that featured an unhappy wife, a taciturn husband, and a magical cobra, or naga,…
In my novel, India Interlude, one of the first conflicts between two of the main characters, Sharon and Kevin, takes place at the Red Fort in Delhi. The friction between these two characters occurs at a site that has also captured, at a more international level, the hostilities between India and Pakistan that are threaded…
So far, this website has been concerned with items related to my first novel, India Interlude. But I also have been working on my second one, a mystery, tentatively titled Pictures of Oxford: An Art Theft Mystery. In this one we revisit two of the characters from the earlier book, about fifty years later, as…
I recently attended a master class in Odissi Indian classical dance taught by Bijayini Satpathy. That’s her, in the photo above, kneeling in front of several of the other students in the class. My novel, India Interlude, contains a scene in which one of the Americans, Diane, attends a performance with her Indian friend, Josh,…
The Sarasota Library System is having a wonderful event this November. I hadn’t realized that this is something they do every year, but they bring exciting authors to town and have events especially for local writers. This year, I’m very privileged to know one of the speakers personally. My friend Lucy Hedrick will be speaking…