Winners, Palolem
I have just finished reading Winners: A Retrospective of the Washington Prize, published by The Word Works. I read it with a bit of need, as I am on The Word Works Board of...
Joshua Gray Blog
Write a Thanksgiving poem
Here’s a challenge for you: write a Thanksgiving Holiday poem that actually gives thanks for the holiday Americans celebrated this past week. I bet it’s harder than you think. Sure, there are a lot...
Free speech should not be taken lightly
Should it? I know I take it for granted as an American. We say “free speech” jokingly all the time to friends and family when they don’t something we might have said. But I...
What is wrong with me?
I mean, I am not a beach person. I like the mountains. Scratch that, I love the mountains. There are two kinds of people in the world, mountain people and beach people. I am...
Fair versus equal
I spent the last many years of my life working for an organization that promoted and fought for state regulation for a particular profession. In my previous post about relationship versus right, I mentioned...
Musical Interlude
And now for an issue of “Proud Papa.” My son Noah has been playing clarinet for 1 1/2 years now. He didn’t play it much last year, but this year he has picked it...
Right versus relationship
Pop quiz: what’s my favorite color? (or if you are in India, what’s my favourite colour?) Here are a few hints. I grew up and have spent the vast majority of my life in...
Statesman Write-Up on Mussoorie Writers Festival
I was forwarded a link by way of Google+ on a great little write-up of the Mussoorie Writers Festival I attended in September. I thought about live tweeting the festival, but it would have...
My only friend, the end
Perhaps it is fitting I have this Doors song in my head. Today just might be the last day of Monsoon here. For the first time in three weeks the clouds have broken to...
Monsoon Withdrawal
Well, I thought the monsoon would spur on a poem, and I was right. When I was up in Mussoorie for the writers festival, I ascended the hill in a dense early morning fog...