October 2012
The New Indentured Laborers
Behind the glitz and glamour of opulent malls, glamorous hotels and ornate promenades in the Middle East is a gritty world of South Asian migrant laborers, who toil in near-slavery conditions.
Mofussil India Sizzles
Are these films really the new cinema, worthy of the hype and celebration and the new directors really the new stars and trail-blazers offering pulsating, exciting, no-holds-barred, creative chutzpah that separates the real from the fluff?
Kushti
Traditional Indian wrestling isn’t just a sport — it’s an ancient subculture where wrestlers live and train together and follow a strict regimen on everything from what they can eat to what they can do in their spare time. Drinking, smoking and even sex are off limits.
Restaurant Sites Target Scale
“Indians are a lazy bunch,” laughs Goyal. “So we wanted to create something very close to their physical world. While menupages.com has menus in [a] standardized format, we scanned the actual menu cards and then put them up.”
How About a National Dumb Day?
We live in a cool, informal and let-it-all-hang-out-environment. Nothing is sacrosanct and irreverence towards buttoned-down conventions and established norms is the new popular mantra.
Booming Fake Art
Fake works of masters have often been known to put international auction houses on the backfoot.
Republican Sunset
Indian Americans have not experienced the frontal brunt of the GOP’s hostile policies toward immigrants and minorities. Yet, Democrats enjoy far stronger support among Indian Americans than they do, for example, among Hispanics, who are significantly more impacted by the GOP’s uncompromising stance on immigration and welfare.
Ghost Walls Speak
How did archaeologists trace the ghost walls, which curiously is an archaeological term?
Feasting All Night Long
Come dusk and the winding lanes of the Jama Masjid area come alive with the sights and sounds — and smells — of celebrations. Of chicken tikkas sizzling, mutton kebabs roasting over blazing fires, giant woks of puris and massive cauldrons of curries, biryanis, steaming milk, etc.
Go Figure October 2012
Are you ready to start cracking the next Go Figure mystery? Deadline November 15, 2012 Enter Go Figure Contest The winner of the August mystery, correctly identifying the
