By Sandip Roy My friend Sanjay Patel’s family ran a motel in South San Francisco. Sometimes Sanjay worked the front desk. But on stage he had another avatar — with turban and bindi, belting out Freddie Mercury, Gilberto Gil and Sufi qawaali songs. He dubbed himself Sanxe Loveji and began emails with “Yabadabadoo darlings.” In […]
Read Moreby Graduate Theological Union Streamed live on Apr 30, 2017 Caitanya Vaiṣṇava theology provides a grounding framework for deep ecological consciousness and action rooted in the ethos of devotional love embodied by bhakti. Krishna bhakti lends itself to the translation of narrative theology into compassionate action in the world. The panel will explore the diverse […]
Read MoreBy OpenArt DAG Modern is pleased to present New York based artist Natvar Bhavsar’s first retrospective in India, aptly titled ‘Homecoming’ at its Mumbai Gallery. His art sails past all limitations and enclosures to evoke feelings – and a sense of being – on a cosmic scale’ – Carter Ratclife, American art critic, writer and poet. […]
Read MoreBy Lizzy Gurdus Retailers’ days could be especially bright this holiday season, as online sales are expected to hit $100 billion for the first time ever, Adobe Chairman, President and CEO Shantanu Narayen told CNBC. “We think it’ll be the first $100 billion, online, digital season ever,” Narayen told “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer in a […]
Read MoreBy Mayukh Sen When he was 23, Mafat Patel headed for America. It was 1968, and he had just received a visa to get his MBA at Indiana University. This trip would mark his first time outside his home country of India. Born the eldest of six siblings, three sisters and two brothers, he’d spent most of […]
Read MoreInside the competitive Indian-American spelling community by Vauhini Vara The final two contestants of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, held just outside Washington last May, had gone head-to-head for ten rounds. Nihar Janga, a toothy eleven-year-old with a bowl cut and the vocal pitch of a cartoon character, delighted the audience by breaking with custom: instead […]
Read MoreGirl Scouts of the USA For her Gold Award, Rajvi, 18, from Girl Scouts of Northern California, developed soil moisture sensors and readers to help farmers conserve water and use less groundwater. The sensors are planted into the soil; they allow farmers to read and determine the moisture level in the soil. Based on […]
Read MoreBy Lakshmi Gandhi It may be the first children’s book by an Indian-American author to win the John Newbery Medal for American children’s literature, but Dhan Gopal Mukerji’s “Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon” has been largely forgotten today, according to literature professor Oindrila Mukherjee. First published on July 1, 1927, “Gay Neck: The Story of […]
Read MoreBy Monica Luhar Nisha Sembi captures the sights, sounds, and memories from her Motherland through a can of spray paint and the pages of her tattered black book. For Sembi, the world is a blank canvas, offering her a chance to illustrate the stories of the oppressed – those who she says have been left out […]
Read MoreClassical Indian dances connect American-born generation to their roots By Carrie Seidman When Sarina Sallapudi was assigned to dance the role of a young Krishna in an upcoming performance of Indian classical dance by the SaiNrityalaya School of Dance, about the only thing the 9-year-old knew about the Hindu deity was that pictures of him […]
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