THE FEATURED ARTICLES
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August 2019 -
Lakshmi Shankar, who sang on the soundtrack of Richard Attenborough’s "Gandhi," performed multiple styles of Indian music and dance. She toured with George Harrison, and played a major role in bringing Indian music to the West.
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August 2019 -
A SUMMER JOB AS A SHORTORDER COOK: In the early ’60s, an Indian student was hired to work in a kitchen—but he didn’t know how to cook.
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August 2019 -
Reflections on a unique oral storytelling bond between a little girl and her grandfather: You could count on my grandfather to elicit such extreme responses to his presence.
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July 2019 -
ROOTS OF SPELLING BEE SUCCESS: How SpellPundit, and the Dasari family who created the startup, can explain a lot about the rise of Indian-American spell champions.
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July 2019 -
ANOTHER HIT FROM "THE LUNCHBOX" DIRECTOR: As Ritesh Batra explains, and his "Photograph" shows, people find love in unexpected places—and ways. Watch it on a lazy summer afternoon!
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July 2019 -
REMEMBERING THE APOLLO 11 MISSION: When Neil Armstrong visited Bombay fifty years ago, this
awestruck author was in the audience. Here's what it meant to her then and 3 aspects just as compelling now.
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July 2019 -
The only surprise of the election results was the scale of Modi’s victory. In India and the diaspora, Indians reacted as Americans (and Indian-Americans) had after Trump won in 2016.
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June 2019 -
A book review of Dr. Suvrat Bhargave’s A Moment of Insight, followed by an interview with this respected child and adolescent psychiatrist who believes that we are all "a spark of the divine."
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June 2019 -
MASTERCLASS WITH BOLLYWOOD STAR MANOJ BAJPAYEE: Views and insights from an acclaimed actor at Toronto’s International Film Festival of South Asia, where his latest film "Bhonsle" was screened.
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June 2019 -
Indian-American kids have been dominating the esteemed Scripps National Spelling Bee. ANTHROPOLOGIST SHALINI SHANKAR talks about SPELLING BEE WINNERS in her new book "Beeline."
