As a journalist, I’ve always been intrigued by the unique experiences, sights and sounds of individual lives, a billion stories waiting to be told. Immigrants who’ve traveled to a new country always have their idiosyncratic cache of memories, of a past which belongs only to themselves.
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f you can’t go to the Jaipur Literature Festival, the festival comes to you with its traveling caravan of writers and poets and raconteurs. It is good news for the many disaporic communities that this wandering festival now comes to New York, Boulder, Colorado and its latest stop is Toronto, Canada.
Indian art is playing a big role at Asia Art Week with antiquities and contemporary South Asian art highlighted in auctions and exhibits.
Ashok Amritraj is the most successful Indian film producers in Hollywood with over a 100 films to his credit.
Ayurveda holds the secret to living a healthy, beautiful life. Ayurvedic practitioner Simmi Chopra Bhatia shares tips in her lectures at Pure Yoga East in NY.
Even as tensions build between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, one can’t help but remember the softer, gentler things these two neighbors – originally one country – share in common: a love for mangoes and gulab jamun, a passion for cricket, Bolly]wood – and of course, ethnic fashion
ooking for a real fun, feel-good experience? Take a trip on ‘Mission Mangal’ to Mars with Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Sonakshi Sinha, Tapsee Pannu and a gang of talented Bollywood actors, reenacting India’s historic mission to Mars.
Indian-American children did very well in the 2019 Scripps National Spelling Bee – here’s the back story
The Much Loved Philosopher-Saint who passed away last year just before his 100th birthday would have been 101 this August, which is being observed as Forgiveness Day. He was gentle, humorous and had all the answers to life’s complexities.
At a time when refugees, asylum-seekers, migrants and illegal immigrants are regarded as trouble-makers, scum, inconvenient and expendable in America and immigration is itself the new four-letter word, there comes a powerful protest from award-winning author Suketu Mehta, himself the son of immigrants.
V]ikas Khanna’s life has been no bowl of gulab jamuns – he was born in a middle-class home in Amritsar with a club foot. He struggled with his disability and had to overcome bullying by the other children. His is the classic story of the immigrant, coming to America with little money and big dreams.
I came to the US in the 80’s, as an immigrant via India, Hong Kong and Africa, and landed in Astoria, a gritty Greek neighborhood in Queens. I fell in love with the prosaic neighborhood with its heart of gold, and it was here that I discovered my own private America.The part which never fails to amaze me is that when I take the N subway from Manhattan to Astoria – glancing at my fellow passengers I see a virtual United Nations – Latinos, Chinese, South Asians, Blacks, whites all wedged together, sitting side by side on the Great American Journey. If Lady Liberty was to see them, she would definitely shed a tear – because this is exactly what America is all about. And on this day after the Fourth of July, with the firecrackers still ringing in our ears – we can say amen to that.
Yesterday is Danny Boyle’s sweet, surreal summer fable about the Beatles and stars Himesh Patel and Lily James with Kate McKinnon & Ed Sheeran.
Creating a space for voices which are seldom heard has been the passion for Myna Mukherjee, director of Engendered, a New York-based human rights organization which recently held the first ever South Asian Queer Leaders Summit in New York. You heard some strong, individual voices including those of Sunil Pant, Nepal’s first openly gay parliamentarian who worked to get same sex marriage rights for the community there
Mintu Pandher, a Sikh Indian-American, has been very successful in the American trucking industry
The end of 377 has changed life for the LGBTQ community in India – take a look at a gathering in New York to find the roots of this movement
This year women of Indian heritage had a fine showing at the Sundance Film Festival and it was the first time that two of the biggest sales were of films created by desi women.
On Father’s Day, what gift do you give to the perfect dad? Two creative teens give you the perfect solution!
Walking in Times Square, you suddenly realize something strange – everyone is taking selfies! What is it about this part of New York that makes you want to record your visit for posterity? It’s like the Taj Mahal – you feel it looks so much more meaningful when you’re standing in front of it!