Off the Beaten Path: Chamba: A city of temples and peace

Off the Beaten Path: Chamba: A city of temples and peace

Up north in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, where the air is cool and wet, and mornings are miraculous with cloud-topped mountains, TOM GRANT finds that the earth itself is a temple. Vistas of snow-capped mountains hide an amazing town that houses the Lakshmi Narayan Temple dating back to the 10th century. Untouched by foreign influences, this is nevertheless a diverse place where tribal communities like Gujjar and Gaddi join Hindu, Muslim, Christian, and Sikh populations in the same parade to honor their joint local heritage. Read more »

Opinion: The Dharun Ravi Case Reveals Our Collective Passivity

Does our Chalta Hai attitude make us too lax to care? Concerned about the flawed justice meted out to Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, an Indian-American couple asked friends and family to sign petitions--but the responses were depressingly apathetic. Read more »

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Movie Review: All Right in the End

You will like checking into this hotel! The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a big-banner Hollywood film with a stellar cast, is a nod to all that is endearing, even if a bit irksome, about India. Read more »

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My Turn: Just Friends

Keeping the boyfriend at bay: In the India of the ’70s in which the author grew up, boys were out of the question for a teen girl like her. Now, as a mother of teenage daughters, she learns to negotiate the feared boyfriend phase. Read more »

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Apu Nahasapeemapetilon Lives On

“Many Americans think of Indians as strange foreigners with an inaccessible culture and horrible accents.” Yet, America was envisioned in a cosmopolitan spirit. Caricatures like Apu will become relics soon... Read more »

Letters from Readers

Letters to the editor about cultural roots & assimilation, Mughal monuments & the Mughal era, singer Deepali Joshi Shah's obituary, and a poem for Mother's Day! Read more »

What Happens to Our Social Media Identity When We Die?

If you use Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, you may have wondered what happens when users die. Are profiles immortal? Are memories lost? Well, the policies vary--here are your answers. Read more »

The Pros and Cons of Telecommuting

About 27 percent of employees telecommute at some point in a year. Employers should decide on policies before the first employee can be sent home to work. Here are some key areas for management to consider. Read more »

Increase Your Comfort Level at the Gym

So you actually have a gym membership now? How do you get comfortable with all that strange-looking equipment, and what exactly should you do? Here are some tips on making your gym experience a successful one. Read more »

Immigration Updates and FAQs

H-1B Cap Statistics / FY 2013 H-1B Cap Count / EB2 Cutoff Retrogresses for India and mainland China / New Resources for Naturalization Interviews / VISA PREFERENCE NUMBERS FOR MAY 2012 Read more »

Aaradhya Bachchan accompanies mom on first overseas trip

Dubai played host to a very special visitor recently. Aaradhya Bachchan—Beti B—accompanied her famous mother, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, on her first trip abroad. Ash was there for the Dubai World Cup—horse racing. Read more »

GOOD SPORTS: Short-Listed for Sania

Who will have the honor of partnering Sania Mirza, India’s top female player, at the London Olympics? There's a short list for women's doubles and an even shorter list for mixed doubles! Read more »

Asmee Sharma wins writing award in kindergarten

Asmee Sharma, who wrote a piece titled "My Family BBQ,” was selected as the Gwinnett County Public Schools district kindergarten winner and awarded the Young Georgia Authors Award for Kindergarten. Read more »

Indian Railways Honors Swami Vivekananda

Train travel: express and educational! The weekly Vivek Express has record-holding runs. It has various routes and a mobile museum celebrating the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. Read more »

IST—Indian-Standard-Tardy

Many people of Indian origin operate on “IST” (Indian Standard Time, or Indian Standard--Tardy). Any suggestions about how one can find sanity in this crazy world of the tardy? Read more »

The Pranic Healing Sideshow

Once the pain of disease comes to you, you just want to be relieved—it does not matter how. But if you are beginning to feel life a little deeper than the physical body, you will see that how you get rid of your disease also matters. Read more »

 

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