IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DESI WORLD
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July 2011 -
Other June deaths: Journalist Jyotirmoy Dey, who was shot by underworld goons; politician Bhajan Lal; Nataraja Ramakrishna, dance exponent.
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June 2011 -
The New York Indian Film Festival, now 11 years old, is not like other high-profile festivals in North America. It has a different accent—or accents, to be precise, since the movies screened in New York last month were in Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Malayalam, Marathi, English, even Tibetan.
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June 2011 -
Indian-Americans owned 19.9 percent of Asian-owned firms in 2007, according to a recent Survey of Business Owners from the U.S. Census Bureau. And the receipts of these 308,514 firms owned by Indian-Americans came to $152.5 billion, amounting to 30 percent of the total for Asian-American businesses.
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June 2011 -
Favoritism has been around as long as families have existed. In India, the movie industry and the business world—but also professions like law and medicine—are hospitable to the rise of sons (and daughters).
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June 2011 -
Following a two-year hiatus, caused by the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, the festival is back on track and drawing visitors to the island of Gharapuri, a seven-mile boat ride from the Gateway of India.
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May 2011 -
Vijay Vazirani, Ananya Chatterjea, Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Arun Agrawal are among the 180 Guggenheim Fellows of 2011. Siddhartha Mukherjee won a Pulitzer Prize for The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
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May 2011 -
A rash of violent, often racist, attacks on students from the subcontinent has diminished the appeal of Australia, especially Melbourne, where many of these incidents took place. Some dubious institutions were shut down, and the number of Indian students going to Australia has dropped.
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May 2011 -
One day, in the nation’s capital, will there be a National Museum of the Indian American? Unlikely. But there could well be a National Museum of the Asian American that includes an Indian-American wing.
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May 2011 -
A 30-year-old diagnostic nuclear radiologist based in Columbus, Ohio, Amit Majmudar is an award-winning poet and fiction writer who has published a novel set in 1947.
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April 2011 -
Foursquare is the latest platform for social media enthusiasts. It’s a location-based networking website for users of mobile devices.
