Slumdog Millionaire

pen4hire on June 25th, 2009

Author Shelley Seale visits the “invisible” children of India like those seen in Slumdog Millionaire, and reflects on her experience of India.

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pen4hire on March 12th, 2009

WELCOME ALL MONICA BHIDE FANS! Thanks for visiting, and I hope you’ll considering coming back often, or subscribing with that big orange button to the right. Our guest today is Monica Bhide, a fine writer and an expert on Indian food. Her latest  work is Modern Spice. Monica wrote a moving essay on her blog [...]

Continue reading about Seeing Mumbai, Part One

pen4hire on March 9th, 2009

I am happy to announce that on Friday, March 13–our lucky day–Monica Bhide will respond to the post on Slumdog Millionaire and slum tours. Monica is a native of India and loves Mumbai, so we hope to learn from her a different point of veiw about visiting that Indian city. And accomplished writer of books [...]

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pen4hire on March 6th, 2009

Welcome to A Traveler’s Library. If this is your first visit, I hope that you will stick around. Be sure to read the two response posts to this one, which I link at the end of the article. And if you are curious about that book mentioned in the first paragraph, it is about the [...]

Continue reading about Nice Movie To See, but Do I Want to Go There?