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- Movie Review: Dharm - Unfairly Snubbed
Dharm, a Sanskrit word that for some means duty and for yet others signifies religion. We often hear this word...
- Movie Review: Nishikanth Kamath's Dombivali Fast
Nishikanth Kamath rose to fame with Mumbai Meri Jaan, a film that depicted the struggle of the middle class caught...
- Homosexuality Versus Violation of Privacy
Dr.Siras, reader and chairman of Modern Indian Languages at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), was filmed having consensual sex with...
- Shooting At University Of Alabama and The State of Affairs In Academic Research
Last night news broke out about the shootings at the University of Albama at Huntsville. Dr. Amy Bishop, a Harvard...
- Movie Review: Avatar - A Movie for the Theater Audience
Finally watched Avatar. Sat in a chilly theater with a pair of terribly ugly 3D glasses awkwardly balanced on my...
- Movie Review: Tingya - A Little Boy and his Bullock
Cold winter weekends have led me into the arms of Netflix. Here I can order films from all over the...
- Dr.Shah Rukh Khan Gets His Ph.D - Dilwale Doctorate Le Jayenge
"Mera beta doctor banega" Hari Prasad Sharma (Munnabhai's father) I worked my butt off for 5 years to get my doctorate....
- The Death Of A King: Michael Jackson Passes Away
Michael Jackson is gone. He was my very first introduction to pop music, our generation's pop music. If it weren't...
- Iran's New Revolution: A Cyber Movement
There is something very moving about a mass revolution, about watching throngs of unarmed people hungry for freedom and change...
- The Palin-Letterman Skirmish & A "Biased" Media
Sarah Palin is not going away. Television channels seem to lap her up because lets face it, there is some...
- Proposition 8: Disposition Hate
I find it deeply disturbing that the California Supreme Court felt compelled to uphold Prop 8. I find it even...
- Poetry: Making Love To A Poem
On the one page where my verses all converge, I meet you, folds parted, slender threads that hold together, the luscious volume ready, willing, yielding themselves to...
- Movie Review: Oliver Stone's W.: An Unexpected Bush Biopic
When I first saw trailers of W. I expected to see a hysterical and comedic reproduction of Dubya Bush's...
- The Celebrity Apprentice Finale: A Let Down For Working Women
I love competition in all its forms. But lets face it, competition in the corporate world has its own unique,...
- The Mumbai Municipal Corporation's Slum Sanitation Program (SSP)
Walking on the streets of Mumbai, I have stuffed a hand-kerchief to my nose and hurried past defecating children who...
- India's Post-Independence Fight For FreedomLet me cut right to the chase here. This is unacceptable. Let me say it again for emphasis. It is...Aditi Nadkarni
OPINION | Politics: Terrorism, Politics: War, Culture: City Life, Culture: Desi, Culture: Education, Culture: History, Culture: Social Issues, Culture: Rural, Culture: Religion, Culture: Urban, Politics: Reservations, Politics: Religion, Politics: Asia, Politics: Censorship, Politics: Corruption, Politics: Elections, Politics: Empire, Politics: Freedom, Politics: Governance, Politics: India, Politics: Laws, Politics: Peace, Culture: Women
- Was Vanity Fair To Freida Pinto?
Let me just start by saying how very pissed I am that Freida Pinto looks like a fifties pin-up model...
- My Funny Valentine - Sweet Comic Valentine
There is something to be said about friends. I mean, they give us their all without expectation. At least mine...
- Movie Review: Ramchand Pakistani
The name caught my attention. It is not every day that we hear the title of a revered Hindu god...Aditi Nadkarni
REVIEW | Politics: Immigration, Politics: India, Politics: South Asia, Politics: Pakistan, Culture: Society, Culture: Social Issues, Culture: Films, Culture: Bureaucracy, Media: Films - Bollywood, Media: Films - Hollywood, Media: Films - Hindi, Media: Film - Actors, Media: Film - Directors, Media: Films, Politics: World
- The World And President Obama: A Reason For The Romance
The world's romance with President Barack Hussein Obama continues. Is it his broad, uninhibited smile, people wonder, or the fact...
- Bollywood's Coming Of Age
It all started with my having given up on contemporary Hindi films. I was hopeful after Taare Zameen Par and...
- Amitabh Bachchan: Slumdog Millionaire Shows India as Third World's Dirty Underbelly
Mr.Bachchan complained on his blog that India has been portrayed as the Third World's dirty underbelly in Danny Boyle's...
- Will Technology Ever Marry Public Services?
As was expected, talk of the Mumbai attacks have died down in global media. With the Gaza war the media...
- The Facebook Breast Feeding Controversy
In present times, freedom of speech and expression have turned into somewhat of a joke. Unfortunately, while freedom is universal,...
- A Cancer Researcher At The Scene
My profile under every article states that I am a cancer researcher. Initially I debated with myself about whether or...
- My City Burning: Scaling the Aftermath of the Mumbai Attacks
I grew up watching with envy the gleaming cars that lined up outside the Taj Mahal Hotel. As a child,...
- Why the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks Could Become America's Problem
Reports are still coming in about the shocking night of terror in Mumbai. The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus was attacked covering...
- Barack Obama Elected 44th US PresidentA movie arrived today in my mail. With the elections in full swing I hardly paid attention to what movies...
- Lost In The Republican Translation Of Joe Biden's Warning
On this Sunday's episode of CNN's GPS, Fareed Zakaria posed an interesting question essentially seeking viewer opinion of whether Joe...
- Who's Sane About Obama's Middle Name?
I got out of Ohio a couple of weeks ago, for good; I left the city, not too far from...
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