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At Hanukkah, Indian-Jews remember the homeland which nurtured their faith. “India has been the only country in the world where Jews have never been oppressed or suppressed or discriminated against,” says Romiel Daniel, who is Jewish-Indian-American. Indeed, India has been nurturing home and haven for generations of Jews whose ancestors fled from persecution centuries ago. At its peak there were about 37,000 Jews living in India. “Discrimination is something that has never happened in India for 2000 years and that is something we are very proud of, and that is why we go back to India so often,” he says.
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While Christmas is important to Indian Christians as a celebration of faith, many non-Christians enjoy it as a secular holiday in ways small and big. Indeed, Christmas is such a huge, high voltage commercialized event in America that few can escape its allure, be they Christians or not.
They spin round and round, going faster and faster, but never breaking the sacred circle, as they clap their hands rhythmically, dancing around the Garba or earthen pot. They smile as they twirl around for in these nine nights they are celebrating the Goddess that is enshrined in all of us.
This hugely empowering dance is called the Garba and it is the centerpiece of the celebration of the Hindu festival of Navratri or Nine Nights.
Christie’s Sells Untitled Gaitonde for $2,393,000 at its Asia Week Auction in New York It’s one of the lovely rites…
If Thanksgiving is a festival of gratitude, then Indians have been preparing for it their whole lives.
In India, take a walk down the Mumbai waterfront in the early morning mist, and you see ordinary citizens quietly feeding the fish and the birds. Their daily day doesn’t really begin until the deities in their home shrine have been venerated with fresh flowers and offered prasadam.
It is only after eating a little of this blessed offering does the family sit down to their meals. Many remember to keep aside a portion of the food for a hungry person or the birds. It is all about sharing.
“Pride was so powerful for many of us. We Bhangra’d and garba’d our way through the gay district of Chicago, Boystown. Not only has it been 50 years since the riots at Stonewall, but it is the first pride for me after IPC 377 was overturned,”
NYIFF – A Feast of Award-Winning Indian Films in New York Anupam Kher, Anurag Kashyap, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and…
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Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp Wins £ 50,000 International Booker Prize 2025 This collection of twelve short…
Widows have had a hard lot in India and other South Asian countries. The breadwinner is the male and the whole community revolves around him.
Eye on Art Asian Art, Past and Present, Meet in Asia Society’s ‘(Re)Generations’ 04 March 2025 – 10 August 2025 Catch…
Indian-Americans Love Hollywood and the Oscars! Indians love cinema, drama, music and they also love gold so it goes…
My Big Fat Desi Wedding is a young adults romance anthology with 8 South Asian writers sharing stories of desi weddings – messy and magical.
Some stories have so much power – and there’s such a need for them! I had done this in-depth story on adoption four years ago & I’m amazed readers who are looking to adopt come to it even today for information. So I thought I’d share it again and would love your input and personal experiences with the process of adopting children from India. I do intend to revisit this topic in the coming months and would love your insights.
Santosh has been married only two years when her constable husband is killed in a riot and she, a housewife, finds herself literally in his shoes, taking on his police job thanks to a compassionate scheme by the government for widows. On the job she learns the many twists and turns of the world of justice and the brutal back stories of victims
Zarna Garg is The Cure for Many Things My heart is sadly left behind in India along with my…