“So I injected some final-year feel into Anukripa and we decided to participate in Saahitya, IIT Madras’ Parody Contest. One night of head-scratching later, we came up with this parody of Call Me Maybe in the style of an Indian matrimonial ad! Then we...
Across the street from the Falafel restaurant has stood a mall called Vallco. They say she was the queen of Cupertino in her time, a beauty. David Orth wrote on its Facebook wall “Back in the day, all the young men would drive for miles just to see...
In the Matter of Race Regarding Jaya Padmanabhan’s editorial on “race” (“It’s the Race Card, People,” India Currents, March 2016), I am Indian on my mother’s side, so for better and worse it doesn’t show in my name in our one-surname-only society. Merle Oberon, the...
“Have you taken MEDS,” asked Sheetal Singhal as she leaned across the table. An impish look flashed me a dimple. We were at the South Asian Heart Center’s 10th anniversary gala Scarlet Night at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Perplexed I turned to San Jose City...
On Ekadashi when the moon was full and people of India were getting ready for the colorful festival of Holi Twitter killed a star. Shashi Kapoor, the youngest son of theatre and film actor Prithviraj Kapoor and Ramsarni “Rama” Mehra Kapoor is an...
A Pakistani Hindu covered with coloured powder is sprayed with coloured water during celebrations for the Holi festival in Lahore, March 16, 2014. — Photo by AFP “As young boys broke an earthen pot, commonly called Matki, hanging in the middle of Krishna Mandir’s...
