Valentine’s Day with President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden – a heartful affair!
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Meet Dr. Chetna Singh, emergency care physician at Ocean Medical Center in New Jersey. For the last year she has grappled with the unending coronavirus pandemic, working the frontline in the emergency room. Right from the first beginnings through the first wave to the second wave life has been lived out with the somber reality of packed hospitals, with patients on ventilators and near death, fighting against a relentless virus.
Vikas Khanna’s debut feature film ‘The Last Color’ is now streaming on Amazon Prime – an emotional feel-good film for our stressful times.
There are many young women who agonize about starting a family during their child-bearing years and are searching for solutions. In an earlier feature we had explored the route of adoption which can create families where none existed. For others, there is the less traveled way of surrogacy – conceiving their biological child through surrogacy.
2020 was a scorcher – shell-shocked and weary we are so relieved to get off the scary ride in this nightmare amusement park.
In a year of being marooned at home, our televisions and our laptops became family, giving us solace and comfort and the laughs we desperately needed. Our streaming services were especially cherished as they ensured the latest blockbusters and hot serials came to us when we couldn’t go to the theaters.
2020 in America -Pandemic, Economic Disruption, Vote Wars. The year revisited through reports about tragedy and triumph.
A Suitable Boy has been with us for decades, in our hearts, the gift of everyone’s favorite author Vikram Seth. This global best-seller clocks in at 1349 pages and is one of the most beloved novels about a post-independence India. It has now been adapted to a BBC six part series by Mira Nair.
Pakoras: Can you stop at one?
Guess whom I saw outside Trump Tower? Was it or wasn’t?
Sean Connery was a fine actor who went on to many challenging roles, was knighted by the Queen and won an Oscar but to us he will always be the first and best James Bond.
The American president and vice-president were always white and always male. With President Obama’s inauguration they finally got to see a minority family in the White House.
Now with the nomination of Kamala Harris as vice president by Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden, comes the unprecedented prospect of a woman and a minority in the second highest position in the land.
Elections 2020 – “Democracy does not just come around in November – it actually happens every single day of every single month of every single year.”
The triumph of good over evil, light over darkness. This simple sentiment is at the heart of the great festival of Diwali which is celebrated in the Hindu Diaspora all across the world. This year it falls on November 7. In this Diwali 101, everything you ever wanted to know about Diwali – check out the videos.
Corona Diaries – The Mask Ask! The most important thing you can do during the Pandemic is also the simplest and easiest thing to do.
In this grim time of the pandemic, what can be more joyful than having the iconic AR Rahman visit you in your home, on the wings of music, along with singer Ila Paliwal and the celebrity chef Vikas Khanna?
It was an eye-opener to see all that she went through to get where she was, and how she retained her grace and equanimity – and the steel and determination – within her, as she brought her formidable legal mind and fresh gaze to the Supreme Court and affected real change for women and minorities through her thoughtul dissents in a world of male judges.
He makes hundreds of pink origami lotuses bloom in the Rubin Museum of Art with a twist of his fingers.
He recreates a surreal miniature world of animated figures and glittering jewels in the show windows of Cartiers on Fifth Avenue.And yet, Uttam Grandhi is a mechanical engineer who’s created new PPE and masks for this age of COVID
“Nature has been revered in Vedic scriptures for thousands of years, and all Indian festivals and traditions are closely linked to nature. I grew up celebrating those traditions and singing folk songs about rivers, trees, rain and nature.”
The tea had a special earthy flavor in this cup and the fact that the clay container would once again become one with nature seemed a beautiful idea. After all, aren’t ancient civilizations traced out by the clay remains of their days?
Our civilization of course will probably be remembered by the piles of plastic containers and garbage stuffed landfills we will leave behind! So the idea of the reborn clay utensils really appealed to me.