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In 1957 Tapan Sinha directed the movie “Kabuliwala”, based on a novel by Rabindranath Tagore chronicling the story of a fruit-seller who left Kabul and came to Calcutta in search of a better livelihood.
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In the wake of Ashton Kutcher’s controversial PopChips ad, Sarah Crow of Spreecast sat down with Divanee.com’s Editor in Chief Sabrina Siddiqui to discuss the allegations of racism and overall representation of South Asians in American pop culture.
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If The Avengers is right, then Mamata is wrong.
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“Narcopolis”, the debut novel from jack-of-all-arts and former drug addict Jeet Thayil, is traumatizing. This trek through the underbelly of Mumbai leaves the reader groping through darkness for logic, for refuge from a deluge of drugs, sex, death and despair.
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Guinness World Records are refusing to acknowledge 101-year-old Fauja Singh’s claim that he is the oldest marathon runner in history, prompting allegations that the organization is guilty of “institutional racism”. The institution accepts only birth certificates as evidence of age, thereby excluding populations across the developing world.
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Who’s the fairest of them all? Staring at her hubby while he reads his newspaper and sips his chai is the typical, filmi portrayal of a newlywed South Asian woman.
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A full house at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was treated to a wonderful evening of Indian classical music on Saturday by iconic musician Zakir Hussain and his group, the Masters of Percussion.
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For Farhana Huq, leaving her career of 11 years in her 30s to pursue competitive surfing was as unlikely as choices come. But since launching Brown Girl Surf on Feb. 15–what she describes as “a journey to find, support and share the stories of trailblazing women and girls from around the globe”–the California native has hardly looked back.
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“Just come back any time with madam to approve the kitchen design,” the beaming modular kitchen consultant told me.
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Sheer epicurean ecstasy. That’s the only way I can describe the state of bliss I transcended into during the second annual Varli Food Festival in New York this week.
