So You Think You Can Dance – Read, Watch and Enjoy
These clips were brought to our attention by two friends of this blog: Madhav Chavan of Pratham Fame (www.pratham.org) and Rachel Saltz of the New York Times Th...
Category: Current Affairs
When I feel Life has been Unfair to me, I think of Karna
Have you ever felt that Life has been unfair to you? That some how, fate has not allowed you to be all you could have been, to achieve all that you could have a...
MahaBharat – World, India, Karna-Arjun, Bollywood
With more than 74,000 verses, long prose passages, and about 1.8 million words in total, the Maha-Bharat (The Great story of the Bharat Dynasty) is one of the l...
Indonesia’s Celebrated Actress – A Fan of Shammi Kapoor and Dil Deke Dekho
Indonesian actress Christine Hakim, a six-time recipient of Indonesia’s prestigious Piala Citra award for best actress, grew up watching Shammi Kapoor fil...
Watching CNBC – A Bollywood Rasik’s Perspective
Last week, as I watched CNBC during the day, I was struck by similarities between my reactions to watching Bollywood Films and my reactions to watching CNB...
The Greatest Publishing Project of Recent Years – Conceived and Implemented in America
I would hazard a guess that every notable scholarly pursuit in American history began at Harvard. This may be my naiveté or the pain of having paid four years o...
From the Tang Dynasty in 5th century CE to 21st Century Beijing – A Tradition of Sanskrut Scholarship
During his recent visit to China, Pranab Mukherjee, the External Affairs Minister of India, handed over the prestigious Padma Bhushan certificate and medallion ...
TV Specials “India Rising” – The Good – CNBC – Erin Burnett
CNBC aired its documentary “India Rising – The New Empire” by Erin Burnett on Sunday, June 22 at 10pm. This Erin Burnett documentary is as Goo...
TV Specials “India Rising” – The Bad & The Ugly – PBS – Paul Beban
On Sunday, June 22, the PBS show “Now” aired its documentary about India called “India Rising.” Rarely can a show be called both Bad and...
Bollywood – Convergence of Sanskrut, Persian and English
While many countries have benefited from the influences and traditions of one or two of History’s globally dominant languages (see previous article), Indi...