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Is J D Vance The Right Choice By Trump?

This is the guy who might be one feeble, McDonald's-fueled heartbeat from the presidency, notes Sree Sreenivasan. IMAGE: Trumps Veep nominee J D Trance with wife Usha Chilukuri Vance. Photograph:......

I Didn't Expect Kamala Harris To Be The Nominee So Easily

'She's been a terrific advocate for women's rights in recent months and her prosecutor's background will really help her challenge Trump in a forceful way that Biden could not,' notes Sree......

White House condemns trolling of scribe who questioned Modi

The White House has condemned as 'totally unacceptable' the harassment of a United States journalist on social media for asking Prime Minister Narendra Modi a question at his joint press conference......

Support to South Asian varsity conditional: Pak

Pakistan has put a spanner in the setting up of the proposed South Asian University in India saying its support to the varsity was conditional till all issues relating to free movement of teachers......

Voting For Trump Will Only Hurt America

'To everyone voting for Trump, I have only this simple question: Would you let him have lunch with your daughter or sister or wife or mother?''Then why would you let him have our lunch (and so much......

Desihits launches iTunes store for music lovers

An entertainment website promoting South Asian culture and music has launchediTunes store for music lovers claiming that it not would dramatically change the face of South Asian music not only for......

No more backlog in US visas: Mulford

Ambassador David Mulford, US envoy to India, has said that his office would do everything possible to bring down the backlog in applications for American visas. "Our hope is that we keep the......

Premji warns against perils of joblessness

Wipro Chairman Azim Premji warned on Tuesday that people in India could become vocal and aggressive in future unless jobs are created for millions."If you do not create jobs for people who are......

P Sainath: India's shocking neglect of its farmers

Wellknown journalist P Sainath told an audience in New York on Wednesday that while food courts are springing up almost everywhere in India's big city malls catering to the palates of well-off......

BBC Asian Network closure was inevitable: Scribes

Senior Britain-based Indian journalists who worked for the BBC believe that given the multi-choice media environment, diversity of languages within the Asian community and stiff competition from......

The Swades State Of Mind

As Swades turns 20, Aseem Chhabra looks back at the film that spoke to him. IMAGE: Gayatri Joshi and Shah Rukh Khan in Swades. Several years ago, I had lunch with the then finance minister of......

Filming war

In its annual round up of the brightest talents in independent cinema, Filmmaker magazine throws up an Indian name: Vineet Dewan, who has been named in the magazine's list of 25 New Faces of......

Geeta Anand hooks Harrison Ford

Geeta Anand, a reporter with last year's Pulitzer Prize winning team for The Wall Street Journal, has gone to Hollywood. The writer who is on a sabbatical from Journal till September has become one......

'In Pakistan, a woman's face is her greatest asset'

Here's a closer look at the Pakistani Oscar-winning film Saving Face, and it's director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy.A story of survival and hope, the Oscar winning documentary for short subject, Saving......

New York mourns end of an era

Mortality never fails to take us by surprise.A few months before his next film was due to release, the passing of filmmaker Ismail Merchant -- likely the most recognised Indian name in the world of......

Asian Games cricket gold fuels Olympic ambitions

IMAGE: The Asian Games gold medal-winning Indian cricket team. Photograph: Kind Courtesy Anurag Thakur/X Fringed by forested mountains in eastern China, the Pingfeng campus of Zhejiang University......

Azhar's inclusion causes hassles in Toronto

Former cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin was to lead an Indian team at the Legends of Cricket one-day tournament between India and Pakistan at Toronto's Rogers Center, starting March 3. Now that......

Remembering Football Legend Tulsidas Balaram

Tulsidas Balaram, who passed into the ages last week, was a member of the Indian football team which reached the semis at the Olympics and won an Asian Games gold medal. IMAGE: Tulsidas Balaram,......

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