One of the most fascinating books on India is the work Hindu Manners, Customs and Ceremonies by that Christian bigot Abbe Dubois, who traveled widely in South India in the late 18th century and early 19th century. A resident of India from 1792-1823, Duboi, a French man, had the opportunity to observe the customs and […]
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has an interesting piece today on the recent stock surge in the Ambanis’ Reliance group of companies controlled by the two brothers Mukesh and his estranged younger brother Anil Ambani, who run different companies. According to the WSJ, the steep stock surge has taken the two Ambanis’ total worth […]
Terrorists attacked India’s holy city of Varanasi and two other cities Lucknow and Faizabad on Friday killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens others. All three cities have a very long history of communal tension between Hindus and Muslims. The bomb attacks happened between 1:10PM-1:25PM local time outside the premises of the courts in […]
Update: Broadway Strike ended on November 28, 2007 As the strike by the stagehands continues this busy holiday season, the lights remain off on much of Broadway, New York’s busy theater district near Times Square. Stagehands, the folks who work behind the scenes to create all those magnificent Broadway shows, are at war with the […]
It’s an American tragedy. If there is one constant in American society, it’s the growing prison population. With the highest incarceration rate in the world, America’s prison population still keeps growing at a distressingly high rate primarily because of tough sentencing guidelines and lack of support systems to integrate released prisoners into society. The U.S. […]
As expected, Indian-American Rachel Paulose, the embattled U.S. Attorney for Minnesota has stepped down from her post. Our Kerala immigrant will take up a new position at the Justice Department in Washington as an adviser on legal policy issues in January. After the New York Times hatchet job on Rachel Paulose last week, we never had any […]