OUR COVER STORY
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October 2012 -
Forum: Presidential Election 2012. Sadanand Dhume, a resident fellow at the
American Enterprise Institute, offers an endorsement for Mitt Romney—in counter to an editorial favoring Barack Obama.
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September 2012 -
A look at the life of South Asians in the Middle East—from the perspective of a Hindu Indian-American from the Bible Belt of the United States studying at a Jesuit university in an Islamic country: a tale of at least three Indians--the laborer, the privileged, and the student.
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August 2012 -
Indian-Americans and other South Asian Americans--in jazz? Yes, jazz. Their musical journeys reflect the immigrant experience, a quest to marry the richness of the native and adopted cultures.
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July 2012 -
INSIGHTS ON THE ISSUES OF OUR TIMES: He has been cited amongst the 50 most powerful Indians by India Today magazine. He plays a mean game of golf, flies helicopters, rides motorbikes, and drives fast cars. But yogi, mystic, and humanitarian Sadhguru Vasudev, who has touched more than seven million people across six continents over 30 years through his spiritual programs and discourses, is at his best when sharing his timeless wisdom—as he does here in an interview with Khabar.
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June 2012 -
Many Indians, who can afford to, are fleeing South Africa. Apartheid is gone, but the affirmative action system there now benefits blacks at the expense of other groups.
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May 2012 -
Up north in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, where the air is cool and wet, and mornings are miraculous with cloud-topped mountains, sits a town where tribal communities join Hindu, Muslim, Christian, and Sikh populations in the same parade.
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April 2012 -
Three men went on a mission to India this past January, to spread the message of peace and harmony through comedy. Stand-up comedians Rajiv Satyal, Hari Kondabolu, and Azhar Usman stopped at seven cities around India as a part of a tour titled Make Chai Not War, promoted by the U.S. Department of State.
Conceived in 2007, Make Chai Not War was the brainchild of Satyal and Usman, who are Hindu and Muslim, respectively.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Satyal said, “Make Chai Not War is a call-back to the hippie motto of ‘Make Love, Not War’. Chai is a tea that both Hindus and Muslims drink. So if we can enjoy the same thing, be it a hot drink or a laugh, surely we can bridge any other issues we may have. That is the theme of the show—bringing Hindus and Muslims (and inherently all other religions) together through humor.”
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March 2012 -
Pico Iyer is a traveler, writer, seeker, a ‘global soul.’ In an interview, he talks about being an outsider, authors Graham Greene and R. K. Narayan, the Dalai Lama, living in Japan, his Indian roots, travel writing, the Internet, and the joys of a quiet life.
Several times a year, Iyer retreats to a Benedictine hermitage in California for brief stints of simple living, silence and serious reading. And for the rest of the time, when not taking off to distant corners of the globe, he lives in rural Japan with his wife in a two-room apartment or in Santa Monica, where his mother resides. Iyer is not a fan of social media and he doesn’t own a cellphone. But Iyer has certainly joined the pantheon of distinguished contemporary travel writers.
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February 2012 -
The pressures and pleasures of growing up tend to be similar across cultures—but for Indian-American youngsters, often there’s the added stress of being different from their mainstream peers. Why, despite such challenges, do so many from the second and third generations do so well? Khabar spoke to five achievers, each of whom gave clues on what helped them. One set of parents also gave their outline of eight tips that worked for them in their parenting.
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January 2012 -
Exporting Entertainment…and importing it: the rising exchange of influences between India and the world in cinema, music, and pop culture.
Is India a kind of invisible, powerful magic vapor, something in the air, which seeps into everything? Look around and you will find that around the world, desi vibes can be found in almost every aspect of global pop culture, as East and West merge in the world of entertainment.
Why this fascination with Indian pop culture? And why now?
The future of Hollywood and Bollywood should be very entertaining to watch – with many deals and collaborations on the way. So keep watching folks – the show has only just begun!
