Desi appointed dean of top US college

Physicist Kanwal Singh appointed dean of Sarah lawrence College, the first Indian American to head a leading liberal arts college in the US. Aziz Haniffa/Rediff.com reports from Washington, DC. Dr......

India-born poet Vijay Seshadri wins 2014 Pulitzer Prize

India-born poet Vijay Seshadri has won the prestigious 2014 Pulitzer Prize in the poetry category for his collection of poems ‘3 Sections’. The 98th annual Pulitzer Prizes in......

Novelist David Rubin dead

David Rubin, novelist, translator, and an authority on the literature of India, died on February 2 from a stroke at Roosevelt Hospital. He was 83. His first novel The Greater Darkness, a novel of......

'Desis forget they can be perpetrators of racism'

Pooja Makhijani, 26, is the editor of Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America. She told Senior Editor Arthur J Pais in New York that her book is an anthology of essays by women who......

'xx/xy' is an empty morality tale

"There's no room for honesty in a healthy relationship," says Coles Burroughs (Mark Ruffalo) about a woman he has betrayed by havingsex with her best friend. "You guys still want to go to the beach......