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Time of India
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
10 Indian-origin authors in the US and the schools that shaped them
In the shifting sands of American literature, Indian-origin authors are not merely participants—they're cartographers, redrawing the boundaries of belonging, memory, and language. Their lives are stitched together with transcontinental schooling, family aspirations, and a relentless urge to tell stories that straddle two worlds. Here's a deep dive into 10 such authors currently living and working in the US—and the classrooms that helped shape their creative journeys. Salman Rushdie: From Bombay dreams to New York realities Lives in Manhattan, New York Before the fatwa and the fame, there was Bombay. Born to Anis Ahmed Rushdie, a businessman with a reverence for history, and Negin Bhatt, a teacher, Salman Rushdie grew up steeped in ideas. Schooled at Cathedral and John Connon in Mumbai and later Rugby School in England, he read history at King's College, Cambridge—setting the stage for fiction that would blend epic imagination with postcolonial intellect. Subjects Studied: History Institutions Attended: Cathedral and John Connon School Rugby School King's College, Cambridge Selected Works: Midnight's Children The Satanic Verses Haroun and the Sea of Stories Victory City Joseph Anton Abraham Verghese: Ethiopian childhood, southern roots, Stanford laurels Lives in Palo Alto, California Born in Addis Ababa to Malayali parents, Abraham Verghese is the son of Joseph Verghese, a respected school principal, and Mariam George Verghese, a teacher. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Kate Middleton Dared To Wear This Outfit And It Took Prince William's Breath Away Crowdy Fan Undo His early education was infused with discipline and compassion—traits that would shape both doctor and novelist. After graduating from Madras Medical College, he moved to the US for residencies in Tennessee and Boston. Later, he added an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, making him a rare breed: A physician-author whose prose carries the precision of a scalpel and the soul of a psalm. Now a professor at Stanford, Verghese brings migration, medicine, and memory to life. Subjects Studied: Medicine Internal Medicine (residency) Creative Writing Institutions Attended: Madras Medical College East Tennessee State University Boston University Iowa Writers' Workshop Selected Works: Cutting for Stone The Covenant of Water My Own Country The Tennis Partner Pico Iyer: Between continents and minds Divides time between Big Sur, California and Nara, Japan Son of the philosopher Raghavan N. Iyer and academic Nandini Iyer, Pico Iyer's biography is practically a philosophical riddle. Born in England, raised in California, educated at Eton, Oxford, and Harvard—his life resembles a literary map in constant motion. Though a British citizen, Iyer writes from California and Japan, his prose echoing with themes of stillness, solitude, and the spiritual cost of modernity. His work is less about passport and more about perspective. Subjects Studied: English Literature Institutions Attended: Eton College University of Oxford Harvard University Selected Works: The Half Known Life The Art of Stillness Video Night in Kathmandu The Open Road Siddhartha Mukherjee: Medicine in the blood, storytelling in the soul Lives in New York City Born in Delhi to Dr Subir Mukherjee, a physician, and Chandana Mukherjee, Siddhartha grew up with dinner table conversations that veered between biology and Bengali literature. He attended St. Columba's School in Delhi before heading to Stanford. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and a Harvard Medical School graduate, Mukherjee has made medical science profoundly human through narrative. Now based in New York, he bridges the lab and the library with unusual ease. Subjects Studied: Biology Immunology Medicine Institutions Attended: St. Columba's School (Delhi) Stanford University University of Oxford Harvard Medical School Selected Works: The Emperor of All Maladies The Gene: An Intimate History The Song of the Cell The Laws of Medicine Jhumpa Lahiri: Rhythms from Bengal to Rhode Island to Princeton Lives in Princeton, New Jersey Born in London, raised in the US, Jhumpa Lahiri is the daughter of Amar Lahiri, a librarian at the University of Rhode Island, and Tapati Lahiri, a schoolteacher. The immigrant melancholy of her childhood—half in West Bengal, half in New England—haunts her prose. She studied at Barnard College and earned multiple graduate degrees at Boston University, including a PhD. Today, as a professor at Princeton, she continues to write across two languages, exploring themes of identity and translation—often, quite literally. Subjects Studied: English Literature Comparative Literature Renaissance Studies Institutions Attended: Barnard College Boston University Princeton University Selected Works: Interpreter of Maladies The Namesake Unaccustomed Earth Translating Myself and Others Tania James: Science, Art, and the hyphenated life Lives in Washington, D.C. Born in Chicago and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Tania James is the daughter of Cecil James, an engineer, and Saroja James, a pharmacist. While science paid the bills at home, art stirred her soul. She studied Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard and later pursued an MFA in creative writing at Columbia. Her stories move between continents with fluid grace—much like her own upbringing. Subjects Studied: Visual and Environmental Studies Creative Writing Institutions Attended: Harvard University Columbia University Selected Works: Loot The Tusk That Did the Damage Atlas of Unknowns Aerogrammes Vauhini Vara: Journeys North and West Lives in Fort Collins, Colorado Born in Canada and raised in the US, Vara has been shaped more by parental values than publicity—her parents choose to remain out of the spotlight. But their quiet resilience shines through her work. After earning a degree in international relations from Stanford, she pursued creative writing at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Now based in Colorado, Vara fuses speculative tech with sharp realism. Subjects Studied: International Relations Creative Writing Institutions Attended: Stanford University Iowa Writers' Workshop Selected Works: The Immortal King Rao This Is Salvaged Parini Shroff: Law, letters, and laughter Lives in the Bay Area, California Not much is known about Parini Shroff's family history, but her voice is unmistakably shaped by cultural duality. She studied law at Loyola Law School before turning to fiction through an MFA at the University of Texas, Austin. Her breakout novel is a riotous take on crime, caste, and female resistance—India seen through a diasporic telescope, tinted with satire. Subjects Studied: Law Fiction Writing Institutions Attended: Loyola Law School University of Texas at Austin Selected Work: The Bandit Queens Zara Chowdhary: The Search for Home Lives in Madison, Wisconsin Zara's life has been one of movement—India, the UK, and finally the American Midwest. She earned degrees at the University of Leeds and Iowa State University. Her fiction is layered with longing, memory, and the spaces in between. The personal is not just political—it's geographical. Subjects Studied: Media and Performance Studies Creative Writing Institutions Attended: University of Leeds Iowa State University Selected Work: The Lucky Ones Asha Thanki: New Stories from the Midwest Lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota Asha Thanki was raised in the US in a family that chooses privacy over profile. But her work speaks volumes about inheritance, invisibility, and grief. She graduated from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service and is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Minnesota. Her debut novel marks her as a sharp observer of displacement and girlhood in middle America. Subjects Studied: Culture and Politics Creative Writing Institutions Attended: Georgetown University University of Minnesota Selected Work: A Thousand Times Before TOI Education is on WhatsApp now. Follow us here . Ready to navigate global policies? 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The Guardian
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
King of Kings: Orchestral Transcriptions of Bach by Andrew Davis album review – the late conductor's first love
Long before he became a conductor, Andrew Davis was an organist. As a teenager he had played the organ at the Palace theatre, Watford, and in the 1960s studied at the Royal College of Music before becoming organ scholar at King's College, Cambridge; he began his professional career as the keyboard player for the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. In the last two years of his life, Davis returned to the music that had been his first love by making orchestral versions of some of JS Bach's organ works. In 2023, he began to record a selection of his orchestrations with the BBC Philharmonic for Chandos, but when he died in April last year just four arrangements had been recorded, and Martyn Brabbins stepped in to complete the project with the orchestra the following September. The result is a sequence that begins with the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, which Davis has orchestrated in a relatively restrained way, especially when compared with the spectacular version that Leopold Stokowski famously concocted for Walt Disney's Fantasia, and it ends with the E flat St Anne Prelude and Fugue, while in between there is a series of chorale preludes, arranged like the bigger works in an unshowy but always thoroughly musical way: for instance, the Trio super Herr Jesu Christ, Dich zu Uns Wend becomes a busy instrumental movement that could have come out of the Brandenburg Concertos. The most interesting of the arrangements, though, is the one that Davis made a decade earlier than all the rest, of the great Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, whose more fastidious, almost pointillist orchestration recalls Webern's famous version of the six-part ricercare from Bach's Musical Offering. Modest these pieces may be, but they are a touching memorial to a fine, much missed conductor. This article includes content hosted on We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as the provider may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click 'Allow and continue'. Listen on Apple Music (above) or Spotify
Hans India
19-07-2025
- Health
- Hans India
OGH performs landmark emergency liver transplant
Hyderabad: The Osmania General Hospital (OGH) team has performed a life-saving emergency liver transplantation for a 17-year-old girl under the 'Super Urgent Category' within the Jeevan Daan programme. This marks the first instance of a financially disadvantaged patient benefiting from this specific category in a government hospital in India. According to doctors, Blessy Goud, 17, from Film Nagar, was admitted to Osmania General Hospital's Surgical Gastroenterology ICU in a critical condition (gasping state) with Acute Fulminant Liver Failure on 12 May 2025. She was intubated and connected to a ventilator due to Grade 4 Hepatic Encephalopathy (coma). Her history indicated a five-day fever with jaundice. Initially treated at a private hospital, she was transferred to OGH due to her worsening medical condition and financial constraints. Doctors reported that Blessy presented with severe jaundice and Grade 4 Hepatic Encephalopathy, with no prior history of liver disease or symptoms. She met the King's College criteria for emergency liver transplantation. While a living donor liver transplantation was considered, her family had no suitable donor; she had no other siblings and was from a single-parent household. Her mother, a tailor, also suffers from a medical condition. Blessy required an urgent liver transplantation within 48 hours to survive. Dr CH Madhusudhan, Professor and Head of the Department of Surgical Gastroenterology at OGH, explained that registering for a cadaver liver organ on the elective list in Jeevan Daan typically takes much longer due to a high waiting list, and there is no definitive liver dialysis for such acute fulminant liver failure patients. 'For the first time in the history of government hospitals, we performed an Emergency Liver Transplantation for Acute Fulminant Liver Failure under the super urgent category with the help of Jeevan Daan. It is a truly challenging surgery to operate on such a sick patient for 20 hours in a government hospital, and that too in a short period of time,' said Dr Madhusudhan. He added, 'We received organ allocation within 24 hours from Jeevan Daan. The brain-dead donor was from another private/corporate hospital. We performed the liver transplantation on 14 May 2025. The patient recovered very well and was discharged in fit condition after two weeks.' Dr Madhusudhan also mentioned that Blessy is now sitting her B Tech first-year examinations.
Time of India
01-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
From Princeton to Harvard: Where did America's Founding Fathers study?
It's almost July 4. Time for bald eagles, beer cans disguised as patriotism, and Instagram stories quoting Jefferson – usually by people who think Federalist Papers are a music album. But have you ever wondered where America's Founding Fathers actually studied before they signed the Declaration of Independence with a flourish that would put any influencer's autograph to shame? Harvard: The OG Factory of Rebels Let's start with Harvard. John Adams – the lawyer with a rage against monarchy – graduated from Harvard in 1755. His cousin, Samuel Adams, also walked Harvard's halls, though his academic brilliance is overshadowed by his brilliance in getting people drunk on revolution (and beer). In short, Harvard didn't just create hedge fund managers and AI bros. It created men who swapped Latin declensions for defiance against the Crown. Princeton: Where Madison Mastered Persuasion James Madison, that pocket-sized constitutional genius, studied at what is now Princeton University (then called the College of New Jersey). He crammed so much in four years that he finished in two. Madison was the guy who would be accused of 'try hard vibes' today, but back then it earned him the title 'Father of the Constitution.' by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Giao dịch CFD với công nghệ và tốc độ tốt hơn IC Markets Đăng ký Undo Princeton thus proved you don't need to be tall to build a tall order of government. College of William & Mary: Jefferson's Intellectual Playground Thomas Jefferson attended the College of William & Mary in Virginia, where he studied under Professor William Small, a Scottish moral philosopher. There, he refined his radical belief that all men are created equal – a phrase he wrote while owning hundreds of men. The irony is enough to make even a British monarch cough up their Earl Grey. King's College (Columbia): Hamilton's Brief But Bright Stint Alexander Hamilton attended King's College, now Columbia University. He enrolled in 1774 but his studies were interrupted when he decided overthrowing an empire was more urgent than passing finals. King's College thus gave America its feistiest Treasury Secretary – an immigrant rapper in his own time, spitting bars against taxes and tyranny alike. No College, No Problem Then there was George Washington. No college. Just vibes. The man who became the first President of the United States never received formal university education. Instead, he learned surveying and warcraft on the frontlines. A reminder this July 4 that if you ever feel insecure about your degree, remember the most powerful man of 1776 learned on the job. The Lesson for July 4 So as fireworks illuminate your skyline and you down Bud Light in memory of a revolution sparked by tea, remember this: America's Founding Fathers weren't just rebels with a cause. They were nerds with diplomas (or in Washington's case, a machete and a prayer). They read Cicero by candlelight, debated Locke over ale, and plotted sedition between philosophy lectures. Today's students worry about job offers. They worried about the guillotine. Happy Independence Day to the nation that was born in a classroom and baptised in rebellion. Is your child ready for the careers of tomorrow? Enroll now and take advantage of our early bird offer! Spaces are limited.
Daily Mail
01-07-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Warning over common procedure that could put thousands at risk of ultra-deadly 'widow-maker' heart attack
Thousands of people with the most dangerous type of heart disease could suffer a fatal yet easily preventable heart attack due to ineffective tests, experts warn. Whilst any of the arteries in the heart can become dangerously blocked, blockages of the left main coronary artery (LMCA) are considered especially deadly as it increases the risk of a major, or what is known as a 'widow-maker', heart attack. Narrowing of the left artery is usually diagnosed by a doctor inserting a thin wire—called a catheter—through a blood vessel in the wrist or groin and into the heart. Here, doctors can monitor for a decrease in blood pressure, which indicates a blockage in the most critical artery of the heart. But figures from charities suggest thousands of patients per year could have their potentially fatal heart condition missed because of outdated guidelines on how to read these test results. Previously, doctors have been taught to look out for a blood pressure 'score' below 0.8 in both major blood vessels of the LMCA, which supply most of the heart muscle with blood. However, researchers from King's College London now say that just one low score below the 0.8 threshold in either of these branches of the LMCA could be a tell-tale warning sign of the disease. If missed by doctors and left untreated—as is the case with over a quarter of patients with the disease—this could result in sudden heart attack and even death. Professor Divaka Perera, senior author of the study and an expert in cardiology at KCL, said: 'These findings are so important because they will guide doctors to accurately interpret seemingly conflicting test results. 'That means doctors can correctly diagnose LMCA disease, and consider a stent or bypass surgery, or carry out further investigations of the LMCA, rather than ignoring potentially important disease in a major artery of the heart,' he added. The experts, who published their findings in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, studied 80 patients undergoing tests on their heart—47 of which already had a LMCA disease diagnosis. This test—known as a coronary angiography—enables doctors to better visualise the structure and function of the heart, helping diagnose heart conditions and plan future treatments. All of the patients presented with 'apparently conflicting results'. This was the case even for patients who already had a confirmed diagnosis. Researchers concluded that ruling out LMCA disease because of one 'normal' blood pressure reading, over 0.8 was insufficient. The scientists estimated that the current methods could be leaving up to 28 per cent of patients without a diagnosis. They explained that a patient could have one normal reading, from the left circumflex artery, and still have the disease. The experts said that because this branch is bigger, suppling more of the heart muscle with life-giving oxygen, it could have greater capacity to maintain a 'healthy' blood supply, providing a false sign that a person's heart is healthy. The researchers are now calling for the current guidelines to be updated so that more people are diagnosed earlier and potentially save thousands of lives. When LMCA heart disease is caught early a heart attack can be easily avoided by providing a patient with either heart bypass surgery or a simple procedure in which a stent is fitted to widen the narrowed artery. However, the researchers acknowledged that further evidence is needed to better understand the issues as their study involved a relatively small number of patients. In the meantime, they are urging doctors to think twice before dismissing test results for the condition as normal and to conduct in-depth investigations of blood vessels when faced with potentially conflicting results. Dr Ozan Demir, an expert in cardiology and first author of the paper added: 'These results will encourage doctors to do further evaluation before discounting LMCA disease. 'This could include important further investigations like the use of an ultrasound or near infra-red cameras to directly visualise the inside of the artery.' Senior researchers at the British Heart Foundation welcomed the findings, as a 'crucial step' in preventing 'major heart attacks'. Professor Bryan Williams, the charity's chief scientific and medical officer, added that whilst more research is needed to confirm the results, the study may help doctors to 'more accurately interpret their results in future.' It comes as alarming data last year revealed that premature deaths from cardiovascular problems, such as heart attacks and strokes, had hit their highest level in more than a decade. MailOnline has previously highlighted how the number of young people, under 40, in England being treated for heart attacks by the NHS is on the rise with rising obesity rates, and its catalogue of associated health problems thought to be one of the major contributing factors. In the UK, around 420 people of working age die of as a result of heart disease each week, totalling an alarming 21,975 a year. Cardiovascular disease is America's number one killer and nearly 1million people die of it every year.
