Ideas Without Boundaries.
She grew up in a railway colony in Ratlam, in India, cocooned in an idyllic, insulated world, attending a European Anglo Indian Railways school. A trip to Bombay for higher studies, introduced her to her first Indian communist, a Hindu girl of 12, whose father Read More …
Ismat Chugtai was born in 1915 in pre-partition India and became a feminist when the Muslim community did not know what feminism meant. The youngest of nine children and an unwelcome one because she was a girl, Ismat reportedly began writing on scraps of papers Read More …
I’m single because I was born that way” – Mae West Perhaps nothing consumes the South Asian community more than the obsession with marriage. Internet dating services, matrimonial ads in community publications, masala cruises, the ever thriving aunty network, all are geared with one aim Read More …
If I see someone (who) comes in that’s got a diaper on his head and a fan belt wrapped around the diaper on his head, that guy needs to be pulled over,” – Congressman John Cooksey, a Republican member from Louisiana who sits on the Read More …
As the melting pot syndrome continues in the US, the Indian community continues to see a rising trend of hybrid marriages – across racial, cultural, national, and religious divides. Khabar set out to talk to a few such couples to find out what makes them Read More …
“I realized that giving is something that no one can take away from you. The rewards of giving go far beyond money and material things. Giving is something you will be able to take with you wherever you go for the rest of your life.” Read More …
Just as Paresh Rawal hasn’t allowed himself to be typecast in one mould on celluloid, he has retained the same fresh approach to the plays he directs and acts in. “Unlike most productions which seem to be wrapped up in a month, my plays take Read More …
When you think of melody and meditation Shiv Kumar Sharma’s music should automatically come to mind. When you think of percussion perfection there is no greater icon of tabla than Zakir Hussain. When you bring them together on stage as Emory University’s Department for Asian Read More …
It is a spectacular classical art form originating in the interiors of the beautiful coastal Indian state of Kerala over 500 years ago. On 26th March, ANAMICA, (Association for a North American Mosaic of Indian Classical Arts) brought a troupe of Kathakali artists from the Read More …
He is the hottest happening singer on the Bollywood music scene today. He is also the face that has made SA RE GA MA PA, one of the most watched shows on Indian television. Shaan came to town on the 20th of January to give Read More …
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