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- Green Card Applicants Resort to Gandhigiri
If you are a desi in the US and have not been locked up in a basement for...
- US Immigration Bill Discriminatory to Skilled Workers
After months and months of deliberations, multiple bills and fake anger over illegal immigration, the Senate announced its so called...
- Why We Love Google
There are a lot of companies that pay lip service to out-of-the-box thinking but Google is the best example of...
- Thanksgiving: A Uniquely American Festival
Harvest festivals are celebrated all over the world and Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November is...
- Is Islam a Peaceful Religion?
Is Islam a peaceful religion? Is it a violent one? Does Quran teach violence? Does it teach love and peace?...
- Ban Indian Companies from the H1B program
A recent IEEE report scrutinizes the Labor Condition Application (or LCA for short is a form that needs to...
- Movie Review: Lage Raho Munnabhai - The Mahatma As A Sutradhar
Oh these pesky sequels, they are always a tough act, specially if the original has attained the status of a...
- A Lean Mean Fighting Machine aka The Human Race
Here is a reality check for all you guys who hold candles at the Wagah border, send out emails containing...
- Yeh Hai Bombay Meri Jaan
Like potholes on the Andheri-Kurla Road during rainy season, suddenly, the western media is full of stories on and...
- Global Warming: The US, India and Gandhi
Global warming activists have been hitting all the right notes lately. There's the Al Gore Movie, An Inconvenient Truth,...
- Outsourcing And The Indian Quality Control Chasm
The business practice of outsourcing has been under fire for some time now. There was never any dearth of jingoistic...
- The Enron Verdict: Lessons for India
In December 2001, Enron – a high and mighty US corporation that was at one point of time, the seventh...
- Aishwarya And Gurinder: The New Power Couple In Bollywood
As if the colorful yarns spun on screen were not enough to keep people engaged, there has always been a...
- Indian Elections: The Stupid Manifesto and the Left's Stranglehold
Every country's people has a date with destiny. For modern democracies, that date comes in the form of an election...
- Book Review: Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor
As the Bush administration's Iraq policy continues to unravel, and April proves to be yet another cruel month for the...
- TV Review: The West Wing
There cannot be a better time than this to get hold of the entire DVD set of The West Wing...
- Immigration Debate In the US: Where is the Indian Lobby?
For the last month or so, I have been watching ever-growing rallies of immigrants in cities across the US. An...
- Feminism sans Borders: Utopia or Reality?
What happens when you bring together five kindred individuals, who have extensively worked on issues related to feminism, violence against...
- Feminism Sans Borders - the Transnational Feminism Conference
When I first read that the South Asia forum in Madison, Wisconsin is organizing a conference on Transnational Feminism...
- Reading Between the Lines
As a regular contributor, reader and commentator at this website, I've been privileged to share my thoughts and argue my...
- Indian Politics: Soniaji - I Was Wrong
After the last elections, when it appeared that Sonia Gandhi might be the next Prime Minister of India, I went...
- Got Beer? Willing to Travel
I'd be hard pressed to give you the exact year and age when this life long love affair started, but...
- Movie Review: Paradise Now - A Must See
Warning: Some movie spoilers ahead. First off, What was all the fuss about? All that raising the roof about glorifying...
- The Dutch Immigration Brouhaha
The Dutch Immigration authorities have come up with a new weapon in their ongoing struggle against intolerant immigrants (read Islamists)...
- The Liberals Are Coming!
With President Bush's approval ratings in the dumps and the Republicans in Congress in serious danger of losing their majority...
- Cafe Bolero - A Little Cuba in Chicago
One of the many great things about Chicago is the eclectic selection of food available in downtown and near the...
- DESI Confusion : Part Deux
In my previous post, I wrote about the various ways in which DESIs try to come to terms with...
- DESI Confusion
One day we arrive - at O’Hare, at Newark, in Detroit, in Atlanta, in San Diego and in San Fransisco;...
- Devon Avenue, Chicago
Have you ever been to Devon Avenue, Chicago? No? Well, don’t feel bad because you’ve not missed much. If you...
- Dubai Ports Deal Shines Light on Bigotry
More than two hundred years ago – the Americans overthrew the rule of their imperial masters with a shot that...
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