October 2005

When the first Americanmusic videos and popularTV shows began appearing in Indian homes in the early 1990s thanks to satellite and cable, many predicted Indian society would never be the same. For the first time, young Indian women saw a regular dose of sexy, scantily clad divas shimmying. Female viewers also saw independent, successful women, like Ally McBeal. Sex and …

The land of opportunity or God’s own country as one may like to call it seem to undergo a new trend as the entire Diaspora takes notice of this U-turn, wherein the globally settled Indians better known as the NRIs are heading back to their native land in what might look more like a reverse migration. In a nation where …

A slogan on a T-shirt in the West goes: “Whatever the question, the answer is� more yoga.” Yoga is not merely limited to a fashion statement; it is a practice that has taken the world by storm, India being no exception. Ranging from a cryptic science practiced in segregated ashrams among a sparse group of gurus and their acolytes to …