THE FEATURED ARTICLES
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August 2012 -
What came before jazz in America? Well, American music, Elvis Presley's music, the Blues, Gospel, and Jazz, all have their roots in plantation melodies and slave songs, or "Negro Spirituals."
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July 2012 -
Indie and alternative Indian cinema at the New York Film Festival: Indian-American filmmakers seem to have put their angst about cultural roots aside and moved to more demanding subjects.
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July 2012 -
Writer draws on varied experiences--Always ready for new challenges, the prolific writer Bharti Kirchner tackles a different genre in Tulip Season: A Mitra Basu Mystery, her latest novel.
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July 2012 -
It’s no small thing when you don’t have an easy answer to conversation starters like “Where are you from?” or “What or who are you?” referring to nationality.
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July 2012 -
In what’s called mainland India, there remains much ignorance about people from northeastern India, leading to prejudice and allowing harassment: taunts, attacks, and demands to produce passports.
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July 2012 -
Attending an extraordinary concert that fused two distinct musical idioms—Hindustani and Karnatic—led to an interview the Gundecha brothers, masters of Dhrupad, and musicologist Kanniks Kannikeswaran.
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July 2012 -
Katha Fiction Contest’s first place winner: the short story "Lucky Sky" by Malay Jalundhwala of San Francisco.
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July 2012 -
Events leading to the Declaration of Independence are well-remembered in American culture, as are Northern contributions to the Revolutionary War. Less known are the roles played by the Carolinas and Georgia.
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June 2012 -
What it means to become an American: As we celebrate our independence this Fourth of
July, a newly minted citizen wonders if the true meaning of becoming an American
today is to be reborn as a global citizen.
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June 2012 -
Christopher Sweet: American by birth, Indian by choice. How did a white Midwesterner of European ancestry become such a pukka desi, even managing to speak several Indian languages?
