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The triumph of good over evil, light over darkness. This simple sentiment is at the heart of the great festival of Diwali which is celebrated in the Hindu Diaspora all across the world. This year it falls on November 7. In this Diwali 101, everything you ever wanted to know about Diwali – check out the videos.
Corona Diaries – The Mask Ask! The most important thing you can do during the Pandemic is also the simplest and easiest thing to do.
In this grim time of the pandemic, what can be more joyful than having the iconic AR Rahman visit you in your home, on the wings of music, along with singer Ila Paliwal and the celebrity chef Vikas Khanna?
It was an eye-opener to see all that she went through to get where she was, and how she retained her grace and equanimity – and the steel and determination – within her, as she brought her formidable legal mind and fresh gaze to the Supreme Court and affected real change for women and minorities through her thoughtul dissents in a world of male judges.
He makes hundreds of pink origami lotuses bloom in the Rubin Museum of Art with a twist of his fingers.
He recreates a surreal miniature world of animated figures and glittering jewels in the show windows of Cartiers on Fifth Avenue.And yet, Uttam Grandhi is a mechanical engineer who’s created new PPE and masks for this age of COVID
“Nature has been revered in Vedic scriptures for thousands of years, and all Indian festivals and traditions are closely linked to nature. I grew up celebrating those traditions and singing folk songs about rivers, trees, rain and nature.”
The tea had a special earthy flavor in this cup and the fact that the clay container would once again become one with nature seemed a beautiful idea. After all, aren’t ancient civilizations traced out by the clay remains of their days?
Our civilization of course will probably be remembered by the piles of plastic containers and garbage stuffed landfills we will leave behind! So the idea of the reborn clay utensils really appealed to me.
Lovely video by Bill Gates celebrting Warren Buffett’s 90th birthday – “Warren has the mental sharpness of a 30-year-old, the mischievous laugh of a 10-year-old, and the diet of a 6-year-old. He once told me that he looked at the data and discovered that first-graders have the best actuarial odds, so he decided to eat like one. He was only half-joking.”
Dev Patel is David Copperfield in a modern retelling of the Charles Dickens’ classic – a wonderful color-blind casting which reflects present day Britain
A world-class music concert, a major dance festival, a film festival are the delights of summer, must-see events on our social calendar. In years past each was a much anticipated real life event, with dressed-up crowds meeting their friends and rubbing shoulders with celebrities. Here we share the past memories and how each event has been reborn, reinvented this year.
As New York City slowly recovers from the Coronavirus pandemic, you really can’t meet or talk to real people – but there are lots of fake people in the show windows of the elite stores to whom you can connect!
By binding the past and the present, Birendra Pani’s gorgeous art creates a new way of thinking for the visitors to the gallery: He says: “Relooking and revisiting our local culture and re-establishing a new relationship with the positive aspects of our tradition will sustain us in a situation of loss in a disoriented and homogenizing world.”
The New York Indian Film Festival is coming to you at home and bringing the best of indie films including regional films, women directed films as well as gay perspectives and social themes.
Indian Matchmaking on Netflix turns a magnifying glass on the traditional Indian arranged marriage with modern couples.
A chance to see the fabulous Nrityagram Dance Ensemble in collaboration with The Chitrasena Dance Company perform Nrityagram: Samhara Revisted, in the Temple of Dendur at the Met Museum
At a time when the coronavirus has caused chaos in many parts of the world and decimated businesses in towns and cities, tech entrepreneur Sree Sreenivasan has started a new venture.
India is like a gigantic Hall of Mirrors – so many reflections, some magnified, some distorted. Which is the true India? And who is the true Indian? In ‘Kai Po Che’, Abhishek Kapoor’s stunning new film, you realize there are no easy answers as you step into the complex, complicated terrain that is India.
‘Kai Po Che’, based on Chetan Bhagat’s best-selling novel ‘The Three Mistakes of My Life’, takes you into the innards of the bustling city of Ahmedabad and introduces you to real people in situations taken right out of real life, such as the 2001 earthquake and the Godhra killings. You are relentlessly drawn into the ugly, unpredictable vortex of current events, of unforgiving real life as it happens.
]he days of invasions and colonization may be over but the world is now facing a mass threat from an invisible invader – the infamous coronavirus which has caused so much grief and pain in countries around the globe. Just a few months back, this insidious virus had been a blip on the horizon, a tragedy that was unfolding in far-off Wuhan in China. Like a thundering army, the Novel coronavirus which causes the deadly COVID-19 disease has spread across the world, leaving no country untouched.
I was the sole person standing outside Bloomingdale’s, that temple to fashion and style and extravagant lifestyles. Its windows beckon with beguiling stories but its doors are shut, due to the coronavirus crisis.