How Halloween Found Me
Halloween is not something I grew up with. It wasn’t part of my childhood in India—no plastic pumpkins, no ghosts in gauze, no kids running door to door in capes. The only ghosts we spoke of were the ones in our grandmother’s stories, and they didn’t hand out chocolate. It entered my life only after […]
Dressing up for Halloween. . .
\”It\’s so much fun to dress up for Halloween,\” my ABCD (that\’s short for American-born-confused-desi) friend, Aarti opinioned. \”The Jones always put up a huge tent in their yard and invite everyone who lives on the block to it.\”
I\’d just migrated to California and Halloween, and block parties were as unfamiliar to me as a fish to desert dunes. Why would you ever want to dress up for Halloween, I thought, with a slight shudder? \”Ghouls and ghosts and everything bloody and gore! No, thank you,\” I continued.