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Desicritics
http://desicritics.org
Media, culture, politics, sports and news plus opinion with a South Asian focus
- Added on: Mar 21st, 2006
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Listed in: News & Media Innovation Society
- Tags: sports politics Culture media biztech
Recent Posts
Persian Inspired Paradise Gardens
Kashmir! “If there is pairidaeza on earth, this is it, this is it!” Mogul Emperor Jahangir The Persian definition of ‘paradise’ may surprise you. It means an enclosed area; an area set aside that has boundaries or w...
Book Review: A Slow Train to Gwalior
A Slow Train to Gwalior is a collection of love poems and drawings by Amitabh Mitra.The book opens with lines from Pritish Nandy’s Lonesong Street What happens when the letters stopThe empty mailbox stares at youWhat happens when you drive alon...
Poetry: tweems - tweet-poems
rajasthanshe pulled her pallooacross her faceand handed him his lunchthe smile on his facespelled lovein the mid noon sunwailingunresolvedirreconcilablemushrooming fault-linesraining all overturning wallsinto wailing ones suchkisay dhoond rahay ...
Desi Sensibilities Kurbaan-ed
Last night, I watched Kurbaan with my wife at the Naz cinemas in Fremont, California. The experience made me reflect on several things, from desi attitudes to the film content. While the film was playing, several people in the desi crowd around me ke...
Mobile Number Portability in India - Rs. 19 Only
For some time now, TRAI has announced that India will have a system that allows number portability, but the date by which the system has to come into operation keeps on getting delayed. Number portability is a process by which a consumer can get to k...
Book Review: Cauvery
Children's books are a world unto themselves. As adults, we read them, revel in the visual imagery, and hearken back to times forgotten. Children, though, experience books in a very different way. They marvel at the pictures, ask a dozen question...
