The Only Place, A Little Bit of Americana In Bangalore
Craving for American food in Banglalore? Not a problem. The concierge at your hotel will rattle off a list of places where you can get your cravings fixed and might even mention a well-known fast food...
View ArticleSounds of Bangalore
When Mona Webber, a die-hard Bangalorean, moved to Kuwait a few years ago she missed that familiar symphony of “Sounds of Bangalore.” She fixed that void in her life by recording the sounds of...
View ArticleDesis in California – Our Pind in Yuba City
Desis in California and you are probably thinking of engineers and IT folks in Silicon Valley, or maybe doctors and lawyers, right? Well, they were not the first desis to arrive in California. Way...
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Desis in California – Prof. Leonard on Early Punjabis
Prof. Karen Leonard is the author of ”Making Ethnic Choices,” a fascinating book about the small, tight-knit Punjabi community of California. The Punjabis were some of the earliest immigrants who came...
View ArticleOak Creek Sikh Gurudwara Reopens & Vigils Across USA
[View the story "Oak Creek Sikh Gurudwara Reopens & Vigils All Across USA" on Storify] Oak Creek Sikh Gurudwara Reopens & Vigils All Across USA Last Sunday we watched in horror as the brutal...
View ArticleWhat is Paan?
Chances are you read the latest article on paan in The New York Times. Paan has become the “icon of Jackson Heights,” as a South Asian denizen put it in the article. Those familiar red paan stains now...
View ArticleThe Other Indians
According to one estimate there are about 22 million people of Indian origin in the UK, US, Canada, UAE and other countries. Many of them migrated after 1947. However in the 19thc there was a mass...
View ArticleWomen Achievers Special
We are doing a ”Women Achievers Special” for the month of March and continue with it for the rest of the year. We will be highlighting women from different walks of life from the ordinary to the...
View ArticleSunil Tripathi
Sunil Tripathi. Until April 19th 2013 most of us had probably never heard of Sunil Tripathi. Many probably heard about Sunil Tripathi via Twitter in the wee hours of April 20th 2013 as the supposed...
View ArticleYoga Exhibit at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum
Yoga. Ever wondered how yoga evolved over hundreds of years in India? What? You thought yoga is a new, modern phenomenon? Well, it is in a sense, but there is also a long history of how yoga evolved...
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