Arts & Entertainment
Praying With The Flute
His musical journey had the most unlikely beginnings and yet today he is the greatest living flute player in the world. He bemoans that while
What's Left to Say About Modi
The revocation of Narendra Modi's visa is one small baby step toward accountability for his culpability in the massacre of Muslims in Gujarat.
Bollywood Bhakts
If Bollywood were an organized religion, the Bollywood Bhakts would make it the most revered church in history with their total, undying devotion.
It's A Party
The desi party scene is part rebellious statement by young South Asians proclaiming their own thing.
Kal's Tomorrow
Taj is coming to a theater near you! All those who saw the 2002 cult hit National Lampoon's Van Wilder will remember the desi character
Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai
Hrishikesh Mukherjee dead at 84. Anand may not have approved in full measure. After all, that adorable character from the 1970 eponymous film had declared
The Final Journey
Sunil Dutt reflects on his life and films in one of his last interviews, months before his May 25 death.
Dan Nainan, Half Indian, Half Japanese, Fully Funny
1. Your father is Indian and your mother is Japanese. How do you see yourself? A: Being born here I identify most with being American.
Showtime
The theater is a place to love and be loved, to be a child again. And yes, there are samosas too. It is comfort food, like
Raas Garba, Anyone?
Pick a partner, click your sticks and join the fun.
Indian Majority
Travel to Millbourne, Pa., the only town in America with a majority Indian population. It is a small, generic, unremarkable town, not unlike the thousands
Elegant and Dignified Arguments
The single great gift of Amartya Sen's book The Argumentative Indian is the perfect symbiosis of substance and style.
The Argumentative Indian
Exclusive excerpts from Nobel Prize Winner Amartya Sen's new book tracing the history of India's argumentative tradition and its contemporary relevance.
Asian Cinema Steams Up
Sex is stepping out from under the bedroom sheets in movies all over Asia. Asian cinema seems to have come out of its hijab, stripping
Indians Roar In The Lion City
A new breed of professional Indian expatriates are radically transforming the Indian disapora in Singapore.
Asian Values: Loosening Up?
In early December 2005, when the Crazy Horse Paris started its shows in Singapore, a topless dance revue, it attracted a lot of criticism in
