'Shantaram' returns to Leopold

Had the terrorists come five hours earlier, I wouldn't be here talking to you," says Gregory David Roberts, the Australian author of the novel Shantaram, oft-considered a foreigner's Ode to Mumbai.......

26/11: Chabad House and Trident

A year after terror ripped apart Chabad House, Matthew Schneeberger walks down the lanes of Nariman House to gauge the mood at the Jewish centre. In the Talmud (one of Judaism's central texts),......

Former US Muslim chaplain talks about Gitmo abuses

To hear former United States Army chaplain James "Yusuf" Yee tell it, the US government and armed forces deliberately used Islam as a weapon against Muslim detainees at the......

Cellphone film showcases youth's green concern

A youth from near Mumbai has combined his knowledge of new media with an expertise in science to create an authentic, individual protest against man's destructive......

California consumes more petrol than India!

Never ones to let raw facts get in the way of a good story, a familiar line spouted by Americans these days is, 'Why should the US curb energy consumption, when India and China are guzzling petrol......

Why IIT grads abroad are returning to India

Ashutosh Gupta, shortly after graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, left for America holding a "one-way plane ticket" and little else. "At that time, in the early 1990s,......

Now, fly New York-Delhi in just 14 hours!

Air India on Friday launched its first non-stop flight from New York to Delhi. This is Air India's second active non-stop flight to India from JFK International airport. Air India had started its......

Kites: Indian-Mexican Bhelpuri with Salsa Sauce!

Kites received so many mixed reviews that we decided to ask you, our dear readers, to give us your take on the Hrithik Roshan-Barbara Mori starrer. After sifting through many entries, we decided to......

Kites cracks US box office top 10

Kites, starringHrithik Roshan and Mexican star Barbara Mori, has become the first Bollywood film to debut in the North American top ten on opening weekend. According to studio estimates, the film......

An American Hero comes knocking

In decades past, Indian-origin actors in Hollywood were relegated to narrowly-defined, cliched roles like nerdy doctors, penny-pinching store owners and the occasional terrorist. And while that......

A dilemma for Americans, Kites or Kites Remixed?

Kites certainly did not soar last weekend in North America -- what the heck, according to the actual figures released on Monday evening, it did not even gross $1 million even though it was the......

WWE's Kane on sarees, curry and The Great Khali!

WWE superstar Kane may be a cold-hearted, ruthless monster in the ring, who chokeslams and powerbombs his opponents into submission. But if you want to make him blush from embarrassment, just ask......

Somdev sets NCAA record

Tripura native Somdev Dev Varman, set to turn professional later this year, continues to add to his impressive list of tennis accomplishments as an amateur. On Thursday, the 23-year-old University......

'They should have asked for 12 blondes'

For the two cheerleaders from London who have levelled charges of racism at event marketing company Wizcraft, their experience may have left them shaken but they insist it is not an "indictment" of......

Super Bowl 42 lives up to lofty billing

A consortium of shouts, whistles and cheers pours into my friend's apartment window on Manhattan's Upper Eastside: "Yea, baby!" "Go Giants!" "Boston sucks!" Peering out said window, I see drunken......