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An Idea Named Mallika

When Mallika Sarabhai strides onto the stage as Meera, the first thing you might notice is her short...
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Bharati's Visible Ghosts

What’s their in science to tell me that spirits don’t exist, asks Bharati Mukherjee. When Bharati Mukherjee...
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Quest for the Ordinary

At first blush Hanif Kureishi’s latest film The Mother seems as removed from the desi part of his...
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Brownie Points

Newsweek recently anointed South Asians the “new American masala,” but the signs as the Oracle might say were...
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Beyond Skin

Nitin Sawhney is very comfortable in his own skin as he lounges in a hotel room in San...
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Hell Of A Party

“Indians love to party. That’s how we meet people,” says Sunil Thakkar, putting a dent in the image...

Chetna Kapoor | February 28, 2019
The Rise Of The NRI, The Influential Non-voter

In 1936, Radhakamal Mukerjee, a famous Lucknow-based social scientist, wrote a book titled Migrant Asia that contained an...
Chetna Kapoor | February 28, 2019
Love And Marriage: Rebels Against An Indian Tradition That Endures In The U.S.

For years, my mom, Indira Pillay, told her American friends and colleagues that she and my dad had...
Chetna Kapoor | February 27, 2019
Integration Of Indian And African Flavors Accelerates

In the 2006 comedy movie “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” Mr. Bobby (played by Will Ferrell)...
Chetna Kapoor | February 26, 2019
Oscars 2019: The Indian Sanitary Pad Makers’ Story Wins Award

Sneh was 15 when she started menstruating. The first time she bled, she had no idea what was...
Chetna Kapoor | February 26, 2019
India’s Rich Fancy These Foreign Destinations

In India, there is no dearth of wealth and the proof of this is the growing number of...

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An Idea Named Mallika