Email Author Paroma Basu

2003 Stories by Paroma Basu

• Paradise Regained?

  published May 20, 2003

  Iraq's onetime Garden of Eden, a vast stretch of wetlands in southern Iraq known as the Mesopotamian marshlands, destroyed by the 1991 Gulf War... More >>

• Tiger Balm

  published February 4, 2003

  Last year I went to a music conference in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta). For seven nights, I sat wrapped in a shawl, bleary-eyed and blissful,... More >>