Idée fixe
An idea that dominates one's mind especially for a prolonged period: OBSESSION
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Religious (In)tolerance
Dino Teppara
Religious (In)tolerance
July 19, 2007
Last week, the first Hindu prayer to open the Senate occurred. A similar prayer took place in the House years ago. What should have been both an historic and innocuous event, turned into an international incident when the prayer was disrupted by three protestors.
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Laugh-It-Off Politics
Sunil Adam
“Good thing we won the war, because the peace sure looks like a quagmire,” wrote Molly Ivins, the irascible political columnist with an acerbic wit, who died in January. That leaves Maureen Dowd of The New York Times to rile and regale.
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Letter to a Young American Hindu
Vijay Prashad
Letter to a Young American Hindu.
Dear Friend,
Like you, I was raised in a mixed family. My parents' families came to Bengal from Punjab, and from Burma. One side leans towards Hinduism; the other to Sikhism. The city, the metro, provided its own cultural mooring, and in secular India, I found myself interested in all religions and deeply schooled in none. Id meant fellowship with my Muslim neighbors and friends; a Navjot meant a crash course in Parsi life; Nanak's birthday meant a visit to Gurudwara Sant Kutiya in the center of town; Christmas, which is Bara Din in Calcutta, meant a brightly lit Park Street and a visit to St. Paul's Cathedral; and, of course, Diwali and Holi represented the high-points of our festival culture. Religion was colorful, and friendly. It didn't represent either the harshest of personal morality nor the resentments or distrust of others.
(originally published in www.passtheroti.org)
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Sacred Game
Arjendu Pattanayak
It was Spring Break recently on campus, and once I recovered from the travails of grading, I thought I'd give myself a break, and ordered myself Vikram Chandra's new behemoth of a book ('Sacred Games') and turned on the World Cup (of cricket, what else, dammit) on BBC.
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 India's Ambassador to the U.S. Ronan Sen, right, chatting with, from left, publisher of
The Indian American Dr.Sudhir M. Parikh, NJ Assemblyman Upendra J. Chivukula, Ambassador
Vijay Nambiar, chairman of Cinemay Media Group Sunil Hali, during Cinemaya Media Group's
Indian American Achiever Awards function in Washington, D.C.
Photo: Mohammed Jaffer/SnapsIndia
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By Nirupama Rao
With a visible sense of relief The Washington Post declared: "American Idol" voters spoke and in a great cosmic correction threw Sanjaya off the show last night. There were no audible boos from the live audience. Only cheers. It was time for Sanjaya to go. Do a little dance, make a little love, get down tonight! Sanjaya, buh-bye!
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AND NOW you may kiss the bride.” These are words you never expect to hear at an Indian wedding.
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INSIDE the dancer’s studio, one young girl stands out.
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The bottomline is that you can’t take the Indian out of an Indian American man, according to women who are independent, intelligent and Indian, Geetanjali Sen reports.
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Blogging to get the truth out
Melvin Durai
Posted 10:05 a.m., April 16, 2007: Just heard on Fox News
that there's been a shooting at Virginia Tech. Dozens of
people have been shot and at least two have been killed.
This is the kind of terrorist attack I've been warning
everyone about since 9/11.
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