“On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in a bowl. She adds salt, lemon juice, thin slices of green chili pepper, wishing there was mustard oil to add to the mix. ”  “Like a kiss or a caress in a Hindi […]

The sensorial materials “The senses, being explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge. Our apparatus for educating the senses offers the child a key to guide his explorations of the world, they cast a light upon it which makes visible to him more things in greater detail than he could see in the dark, or uneducated state. ” The Absorbent Mind p 167, […]

When you really think about it, of course Harry Houdini died on Halloween. What other date could have been more appropriate for the mind-boggling magician, master escape artist, and accomplished aviator (he got his license to pilot an airplane just a couple years after the Wright brothers invented the damn thing). The Hungarian-born superstar died, at 52, from acute appendicitis on Oct. 31, 1926, which was no doubt aggravated by a  interest in challenging the fitness freak’s claim that his stomach could always […]

Lots of students have difficulties in beginning their creative writing papers. It is no wonder because gripping hook sentences attract reader’s attention at the very beginning. Some of you may think about starting with an interesting dialogue. But how to start an essay with a quote and how to do it perfectly well? Let’s find it out. What is Dialogue? Dialogue is a conversation between […]