Lucknow

Ram Advani in his bookshop, Ram Advani Booksellers. He ran it for more than a half century.

My friend, the bookseller of Lucknow

March 15, 2016Books

Ram Advani ran a bookshop in Lucknow India for more than 60 years. For the past 20 of them, we were good friends.

A surfer showers off on the beach in Cardiff, California.

I forgot the art of showering in cold water

February 24, 2016Lifestyle

This is Sahu Cinema Hall, in the center of my hometown, Lucknow, India. I watched hundreds of movies there when I was kid, and it brings back lots of memories for me.

When I try to belong in America, I long for India — and vice versa

October 31, 2014Culture

A child sits on a heap of mangos at a fruit wholesale market in Kodur village, about 650 km (404 miles) south of the southern Indian city of Hyderabad.

I think it’s too hot to go home to India. But then I think of the mangoes

May 12, 2014Lifestyle & Belief

Reporter Deepak Singh (in blue shirt) shopping on Black Friday 2013.

My first Black Friday reminded me of pilgrimages back home in India

November 29, 2013Business, Economics and Jobs

My Failed Calls to Send Ramadan Greetings from Lucknow to Lahore

August 15, 2013Global Politics

Islam’s holy month of Ramadan has begun this week. It is a time to strengthen the bonds in the community and throughout the world. But reporter Deepak Singh is finding it difficult to call his friend in Pakistan to send him greetings from India.

India’s Schoolchildren Connect to their Global Peers

August 15, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

The City Montessori School would seem to be bursting at the seams. 42,000 students attend this private secondary school in theIndian city of Lucknow. Students at the school participated in a BBC World Service program to consider “What matters to me?”