IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DESI WORLD
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August 2012 -
Anuradha Roy’s The Folded Earth (Free Press), Akash Kapoor’s India Becoming
(Riverhead Books), Thrity Umrigar's The World We Found (Harper Perennial), and Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Random House).
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July 2012 -
Family is first for Indian-Americans. A Pew Research Center survey of Asian Americans looks at marriage, parenting, values, and whether immigrants strengthen the U.S.
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July 2012 -
An exhibit on the legacy of Punjabi and other immigrant pioneers was unveiled in Yuba City, California (known for its annual Sikh parade). And "Homespun" will be a Smithsonian exhibit on migrants from India.
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July 2012 -
Clean sweeps for Indian-Americans: the top three places at the 2012 National Spelling Bee championship AND the National Geographic Bee were Indian-American--and there were seven Indian-Americans in the top 10 of the latter!
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July 2012 -
The Economic Times and IMRB International have again done their surveys to determine the top 10 Global Indian Thought Leaders, Global Business Leaders, CEOs in India, and Women CEOs in India.
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July 2012 -
Here's another British movie set in India featuring Rajasthan’s hospitality industry. Trishna features Freida Pinto (not Dev Patel), fancy palaces, an antihero, a gory climax, and an R rating.
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July 2012 -
Preet Bharara is on the cover of Time magazine and is one of its 100 most influential people this year. He's a U.S. attorney prosecuting cybercrimes and financial crimes associated with Wall Street.
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July 2012 -
Summer reading: Aerogrammes and Other Stories-- Tania James; Call Me Russell: Inside the Outside--comedian Russell Peters; Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles--Ruchir Sharma; and The Thing About Thugs--Tabish Khair.
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June 2012 -
Kabaddi is now a sport for men and women, and not just in India. This year, at the first world kabaddi championship for women, India received the world cup. Sixteen nations were represented.
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June 2012 -
Harvard Business School is using India for 90 of its case studies! In one, “Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership,” Rohit Deshpande explores the employees' courage in the 2008 crisis.
