Desi World
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE DESI WORLD
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Player and Playwright
November 2013 -
Vijay Iyer (musician) and Rajiv Joseph (writer) are collecting honors. Iyer: "the world was going to let me be an artist." Joseph: "I have my white American family and I have my Indian family."
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TEEN INSPIRER
November 2013 -
Sixteen-year-old Pakistani Malala speaks out for education and human rights for women. Harassed and shot by the Taliban, she continues to work and help her country progress.
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Battle for Oscar
November 2013 -
Should The Lunchbox or The Good Road have been chosen as India's Oscar entry in the Best Foreign Language Film category for 2014? Here's a look at some other Oscar entries, too.
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LESS MEANS MUCH, NOT MORE
November 2013 -
Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir: Scarcity imposes a burden and leads to short-term thinking, which can make our problems worse, i.e. poverty shrinks anyone's bandwidth!
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Now Playing Near You
October 2013 -
To commemorate Indian cinema’s 100th anniversary, here’s news for local film lovers: Atlanta is now one of the fastest-growing markets for Bollywood films, with high rankings.
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Mobile Phones Turn 40
October 2013 -
This is an anniversary year for mobile phones, the World Wide Web, and commercially available cell phones. All have transformed our lives. Look at India's statistics—and the benefits!
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Stephen: The Other Alter
October 2013 -
Tom Alter is well known as a film actor. Stephen Alter, a first cousin who also grew up in India, writes fiction and nonfiction and plays the lead role in a well regarded literary festival.
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Miss America 2014
October 2013 -
Nina Davuluri is the first Indian-American to win a Miss America title, significant despite the ignorant comments that followed. An Indian comment on her color is worth noting!
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Meeting of Minds
October 2013 -
Computer scientists Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco have documented brain-to-brain communication, telepathy. Rao hopes science will help solve the Indus script puzzle, too.
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BOOK MATTERS
October 2013 -
Nonfiction: Chaudhuri - Calcutta, Astill - The Great Tamasha. Novels: Lahiri - The Lowland, Lalwani - The Village, Suri - The City of Devi, Sundaresan - The Mountain of Light.
