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Gary Singh
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Newspaper columnist at Metro Silicon Valley for 20 years. Author at History Press. Sober vagabond. More words at Alta Journal, Hidden Compass, Atlas Obscura, IEEE Computer Graphics, AAWW & more.
https://www.garysingh.info
Kepler's Books in Menlo Park celebrates 70 years this year. I wrote about the 50th anniversary. I wrote about the 60th anniversary. From day one, Roy Kepler built the place with a philosophy of non-violence. Ok, now I am logging off for the day.
September 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This is what I do every week. In case you don't know.
August 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Every time I return to the Mediterranean, I think of this material. Still on my shelf.
June 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Today is the anniversary of Bourdain's demise. That day, I was with a group in a restaurant at the northernmost fringe of the Adriatic Sea. Here's what I wrote a year later, in 2019.:
www.metroactive.com/features/col...
June 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Well, that's the best feedback I can ask for. If you haven't yet read my latest long-form travel story, it's about Partition trauma, family history and my dad's hidden influence on my writing career. Link here:
hiddencompass.net/story/truth-...
May 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Thank you! A few people sent that to me, but no one seemed to know who did it!
May 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Amazing night in Palo Alto last night, with Maitri Bay Area, a 34-year-old organization raising money to battle domestic violence in the South Asian diaspora.
April 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM
April 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
April 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A few moments from the San Jose gathering. 🧵 #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Wrapping up a business trip in the lake regions of Northern Italy.
March 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The president of Mexico. 10,000 times the human that Trump and Elon Musk will ever be.
March 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Ok, here we go again. Gates just opening. County jail and government buildings in the background, and groovy planes landing across the street. I love those hills. I really do. Especially with the sunset behind me, on the other side of the stadium.
March 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Happy International Punk Women's Day.
March 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
First two paragraphs of this lawsuit. 👏👏👏
March 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Milan Kundera. He knew.
March 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Some stuff from over there across the pond.
March 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Much bigger game, right now, this morning, California time. Liverpool and Manchester City. The pub is open. Whole neighborhood outside is a morgue. No one around. Inside, about 30 people. Our little home away from home. Thanks to O'Flat's for opening for these things.
February 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM
February 23, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Scenes from the protest in San Jose just moments ago, as it was getting started.
February 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A great restaurant. And some great causes.
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/747087...
February 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Zareen's in Palo Alto.
February 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Today's Aleksandar Hemon passage:

“...immigration leads to a kind of self-othering as well. Displacement results in a tenuous relationship with the past, with the self that used to exist and operate in a different place, where the qualities that constituted us were in no need of negotiation.”
February 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The people who hated the halftime show yesterday.
February 11, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Entire shelf of Graham Greene at my local.
February 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM