Last week the Indo-American Arts Council hosted a book launch event to celebrate actor and author Madhur Jaffrey‘s latest release, a cookbook designed for busy people who love Indian food but find the prep time overwhelming. Loins of Punjab Presents star Ajay Naidu stopped by briefly to offer his good wishes, followed later in […]
Category: Books
Free today: Rakesh Satyal’s novel Blue Boy
Received the following heartfelt message from author Rakesh Satyal this morning. Do pass on the word to anyone you think might benefit from a free download of his funny and touching debut novel, Blue Boy, and its tale of the irrepressible and gifted Kiran, a young boy who loves boys (and fashion and music and […]
Anthony Bourdain Launches “Medium Raw” in NYC
Yesterday, the man who consumed bhang in Rajasthan and later curled up in a ball on the sand to sleep it off, the man who provided this enlightening glimpse into the rules and regs of cricket, the man who once declared while eating kebabs in Bombay “No hairnet and latex gloves here“, New Jersey-born chef, […]
What would Kiran do?
That’s the question I posed yesterday to Rakesh Satyal, author of the novel Blue Boy, wondering how his young, flamboyant protagonist would react to the fact that SALGA, the South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association, has not been admitted to the India Day Parade this year, just a few weeks on the heels of the […]
Patiala pegs and Adam bashers
I stumbled across this mignon little tome in Barnes & Noble one day a while back. Along the lines of their phrasebooks, Lonely Planet has published Indian – English Language and Culture, and under that rubric they manage to stuff in all sorts of linguistic notes and cultural explanations. My ties to the subcontinent […]