Indian Passion: The Times of India:
Few can bend it like Chadha
Gurinder Chadha is a decidedly dumpy woman with a superbly streamlined brain and a life story that reads like a cross between a travel itinerary and a geography lesson. Born to Sikh parents in Kenya; brought up in Southall, west London; married to a Japanese American; shuttling between homes in Los Angeles and London; feted by the beautiful people on three continents for bringing British multi-culturalism to multiplexes everywhere and making it sell.Actually, that last bit almost...
Indian passion turns to profit
OXFORD — It's funny how a vague interest will sometimes grow into a hobby and then sprout into a full-fledged business.Take Bobby and Becky Lovell, for instance. An industrial painter by trade, he has spent a good bit of time traveling to contract jobs in Oklahoma and points farther west. And on many of those trips he would return home with trinkets made by American Indians.As the years passed, his interest in Indians grew, and a little over two...
Indian Passion: INDEPENDENCE LEAVES INDIA LESS THAN GIDDY
As an occasion for a party, the 50th anniversary of India's independence that began Aug. 14 looks like something of a bust. The committee responsible for organizing the celebration was forced to announce only weeks before the anniversary that it was shifting the calendar and declaring the August date to be the beginning, not the culmination, of the anniversary year.As for events over the next 12 months, the committee has so far been vague, saying that while it will be staging...
Indian Passion: Financial Express:
Too Many Tricks For Consumers
Never mind that my cousin is trying to slog for his board examination, my uncle’s family, like so many million Indian households, is already in the grip of World Cup Cricket hysteria. Although the event is in South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe, the epicentre of excitement seems to be his household. Come to think of it, otherwise in February, my uncle would have preferred a cup of tea or coffee, but right now, his double door refrigerator is filled with soft drinks. That too not the...
Indian Passion: DANCE REVIEW
Each Fall Has Meaning In Graham's 'Spring'
As a Martha Graham dancer falls prone, one foot is extended and pointed, the other flexed, digging into the floor. In this deliberate dislocation, Graham aligns the human body toward maximum expressiveness. Here is the asymmetry close to her heart, embodying the emotional jaggedness of life, both modern and eternal, and anything but neat.|Anna Kisselgoff reviews Martha Graham Dance Co performance of Appalachian Spring at Joyce Theater; photo (M) You could follow this familiar drop to...