Author: Lavina Melwani

Grammy winner Ricky Kej brings you a global concert right into your home during the COVID-19 crisis. It celebrates environmental concerns and tells you to shine the light

Indian-American physicians, nurses and health workers are on the frontlines treating patients during the Coronavirus pandemic

If there’s only one thing you do today to make yourself happy, watch this excellent video! For all those who love the street foods of India this is the ultimate experience, traveling state by state and eating the delicious eats right on the road. The tears sting your eyes, your nose runs, your tongue burns – and you’re in foodie heaven!
It is amazing how everything is available in the open – be it spicy chat papri, ragra patice, alu tikki, chole bature or seekh kebab. You’ll see foods you’ve never eaten!

New York has become the epicenter of the Coronavirus pandemic – a look at how the city is coping.

If you can’t go to the MET, the MET comes to you! Enjoy the digital premiere of The Mother of us All’

As in much of the world, life is on hold in America, held hostage by the deadly Coronavirus pandemic. In this fast moving news cycle, the figures keep changing and new developments are taking place all over the world.

This morning we learned that we have lost that wonderful chef and human being Floyd Cardoz to Coronavirus. My eyes welled up with tears; I must have met Cardoz briefly about a dozen times over the span of 20 years – but his grace and his integrity stayed with you. That was the kind of person he was.

“In our 178-year history, the New York Philharmonic has weathered the US Civil War and two World Wars and survived the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. We will be back!”

In ‘Ajanta – Regional Feasts of India’ cookbook author and restaurateur Lachu Moorjani explores the diverse foods of India, with regional feasts from different states. Here he shares some recipes from different regions of India. Come hungry!

In the age of Coronavirus – human ingenuity creates a mask out of mundane items.

Life in the Time of Coronavirus Here’s why we should be taking it seriously! View this post on Instagram When the Italian media began reporting on the increased community spread of the novel #coronavirus across the country, filmmaker Olmo Parenti, like many Italian citizens, didn’t take the threat of the pandemic too seriously. “My friends and I were almost mocking the few people who believed the issue was serious from the get-go,” Parenti said. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Just days later, Parenti felt like he was living in a different version of reality—a dystopian one. The number of positive cases had…

Once upon a time, Yogesh*, a vibrant young dreamer set out for America with his wife and child on a H1 B Visa to conquer the world. Ten years later, he’s still on the waiting line, still waiting for the elusive green card. Immigration has increasingly become a waiting game, and a numbers game. The sheer math of it all is overwhelming.

When Indian-American men cook, it’s considered cool and they are anointed chefs and stars and given all the respect. But when women cook, they are the housewives, the home-cooks and kitchen-bound who are doing what they’ve done for millennia. But now change is happening and some Indian-American women are taking the rolling pin and the tawa, and turning them into money-making startups!

Warning: Do NOT Separate an Indian from his Onions! It’s the one ingredient that no self-respecting desi cook would want to be without; whether you are whipping up a Mughal feast or a poor man’s meal – onions are absolutely necessary. In fact, a shortage of onions can cause a near revolution in India!

You could call them some of the most desirable voters in America that any political party would love to have in their ranks. Indeed, Indian-Americans seem to be in all 50 states and are strong players in the American political scene.So how is this viable block of American citizens going to vote in the upcoming presidential elections? Will they vote for a Democrat in the White House or four more years for Donald J. Trump?

Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan’ has all the Bollywood trimmings – the catchy songs, the hot romance, the dances, the big fat Indian wedding, the comedy, the drama which have made it a box-office hit.
Yet it has something more which will ensure it will become a milestone marker in Hindi film history.

Now in the 2020’s, we are certainly seeing more action. It’s a groundswell with Indian-Americans in the corridors of power, in think-tanks, political campaigns, in community organizations and often as commentators on national television.

When Kunal and Michael got married – the secrets of living happily together.

Oscar nominations for Smriti Mundhra and Sami Khan’s documentary short ‘St. Louis Superman’

spent a lot of today thinking about the unpredictability of life and why things happen the way  they do. The helicopter crash, the meaningless deaths of all on board including the basketball legend  Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old prodigy daughter Gianna.  The random nature of life is the enigma we have to face time and again.