December 2007
This column carries priority dates and other transitional information as taken from the U.S. State Department’s Visa Bulletin. The information below is from
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Kids for Sight
Lehka and Nyan Pendyala are seven and nine years old, respectively. But youth has been no obstacle for these two social entrepreneurs, who have raised more than
What Melting Pot?
The day that I arrived in the United States from India, I was informed proudly by a set of intellectual leaders that the United States is the most diverse count
Little Earth, Big Project
Barkha Katiyar is a Bay Area resident and self-described “mommy-entrepreneur” who recently launched Our Little Earth: World News for Young Citizens. Our Lit
An Engineer of Words
This August, 34-year-old Vikas Jhingran, a graduate student in the Ocean and Mechanical Engineering Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, bec
Samosa Chat
THE KUMARS AT NO. 42. Players: Sanjeev Bhaskar, Vincent Ebrahim, Indira Joshi, Meera Syal. DVD (BBC/Warner), releases Nov. 8, 2005. The British (and for that ma
Love Amongst Ruins
DHOKHA. Director: Pooja Bhatt. Players: Muzzamil Ibrahim, Tulip Joshi, Aushima Sawhney, Anupam Kher. Music: M. M. Kreem. DVD (Adlabs). The house of Bhatts—Mah
Dating Over 30
Q I am a single woman in my mid-thirties. I want to be in a long-term relationship, but I find it very difficult to date. I don’t really enjoy the process of
The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal: Doomed if it fails and doomed if it doesn’t?
The U.S. nuclear cooperation agreement with India is facing deep setbacks as the Indian government battles strong opposition from the Left. The Indian Communist
Poisoned Purity: Chasing Ganga’s Silent Spring
GANGA by Julian Crandall Hollick. Island Press: Washington, D.C. October 2007. Hardcover. 296 pages. $25.95. Julian Crandall Hollick, a journalist whose radio d
Battered Justice
PROVOKED: A TRUE STORY. Director: Jag Mundhra. Players: Aishwarya Rai, Miranda Richardson, Naveen Andrews, Nandita Das. DVD Release: November 2007 (EROS). Based
For the RUSH
I’m sitting at my computer, double-checking the release dates of various songs by the band Rush, for the purpose of this essay. Just writing about the Rush co
