As if it’s not tough enough being a tween – dealing with school, hostile or indifferent classmates, parents and your own hormonal surges and shifts – Smith Bhatnagar is also living between his Indian-influenced home[…]
“Lion” makes history with Academy Award nominations
Lion was nominated for six Academy Awards this week by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the following categories: Best Motion Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Dev Patel, Best Supporting Actress for[…]
Lion
In 1986, in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, teenager Guddu and his five-year-old brother Saroo became separated when out to do some manual labor. The boys were from a poor, single-parent family, where mother Kamla would go[…]
Jai Ho in the General Assembly: AR Rahman at the UN
When I first got a text weeks ago from the event organizer hinting there was something big happening in New York on August 15 with AR Rahman, I said “Oh, India Day parade?” and was[…]
Song of Lahore
Years ago, a friend turned me on to Norwegian jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek and the album he made with Ustad Fateh Ali Khan, Ragas and Sagas. That was probably the last time I thought about[…]
Malala Lighting the Candle of Knowledge
It was almost three years ago to the day (October 9, 2012) that teenagers Malala Yousafzai, Shazia Ramzan and Kainat Riaz were shot by the Taliban while they sat in their school bus in the[…]