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Archives: December 2006
Path to Citizenship
ASHOK JETHANANDANI, Dec 01, 2006
Letters
JAGJIT SINGH, VEENU PURI VERMANI, VEENU PURI VERMANI, INARA ISLAM, and GOPAL PRABHU, Dec 04, 2006
Southern California Cultural events
Dec 04, 2006
Dec.1 - Feb.15
Southern California Yoga Events
Dec 04, 2006
Desis of the Year 2006
SANDIP ROY-CHOWDHURY, NITYA RAMANAN, and ASHOK JETHANANDANI, Dec 05, 2006
Although South Asian Americans still comprise only about 1 percent of the U.S. population, they continue to excel professionally, and make a mark far beyond their numbers. Here’s the India Currents shortlist of this year’s 10 notable desis.
Top 10 Films of 2006
ANIRUDDH CHAWDA, Dec 06, 2006
It was a year of filmmaking debuts (Kalyug, Being Cyrus), Shakespearean tragedy (Omkara), Abhishek Bachchan’s meteoric rise (Bluffmaster), half-a-dozen blockbusters (Krrish, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, Rang De Basanti, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Phir Hera Pheri, Fanaa), and the long-awaited Water.
Southern California Spiritual Events
Dec 06, 2006
Dec.1-Feb.15
Music with a Mission
NIRUPAMA VAIDHYANATHAN, Dec 07, 2006
How a 10-set CD collection has been produced by children
Misguided Desire
JEANNE E. FREDRIKSEN, Dec 08, 2006
In Tarun J. Tejpal’s fiction-within-the-fiction The Alchemy of Desire, the nested stories are more compelling than the main story
Chinese Communities in Calcutta
JYOTSNA SANZGIRI, Dec 13, 2006
In her collection of short stories, The Palm Leaf Fan, Kwai-Yun Li reflects on the marginalized Chinese communities of Calcutta
The New Don
ANURADHA CHOUDHARY, Dec 14, 2006
Why Farhan Akhtar decided to remake the 1980s flick Don, and recreate the intriguing lead character who had become deeply embedded in his childhood memories.
The Silence of a Lifetime
Dec 20, 2006
Against the backdrop of the Quit India campaign Indu Sundaresan weaves a colorful tale of forbidden love, revolutionary fervor, and covert military operations in her novel The Splendor of Silence
Taste Memories
SANDIP ROY-CHOWDHURY, Dec 22, 2006
Madhur Jaffrey uses the triggers of her favorite food flavors to recall memories of growing up in a joint family in her memoir Climbing the Mango Trees.
An Omnibus Repast of the Century Past
RAJESH C. OZA, Dec 29, 2006
“Like a box of Indian sweets,” R.K. Narayan’s novels (republished in a two-volume keepsake, R.K. Narayan Omnibus) are hard to resist.
North Korean Nuclear Tests
RAJEEV SRINIVASAN and SUGRUTHA RAMASWAMI, Dec 29, 2006
Now that North Korea has carried out nuclear tests, is the U.S.-India nuclear deal doomed? Two opinions
Visa Dates
Dec 29, 2006
December 2006
India Rising?
SANJOY BANERJEE, Dec 29, 2006
What do the GOP’s loss in the congressional elections and subsequent passage of the U.S.-India nuclear accord in the Senate signal for relations between the two nations?