Bollywood film "Hindi Medium" and "Sachin - A Billion Dreams", a docu-drama that narrates the story of cricket legend Sach

Bollywood filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar on Sunday took to Twitter to call upon Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and soug

Actor Salman Khan appeared before the Jodhpur Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) court tomorrow in the blackbuck poaching cas

The Bombay High Court today granted two weeks' time to the Maharashtra government to file an affidavit to justify its deci

Censor board chief Pahlaj Nihalani is in objection mode again, this time over the use of the word word "intercourse" in th

Salman Khan has a huge market in Pakistan but his fans might miss the Eid release of his new film "Tubelight" as the distr

Indian superstars Shahrukh Khan, Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar are among Forbes' annual list of the highest-earning enterta

Denying his earlier statement wherein he said he would love to work in Pakistani serials and films, actor-politician Pares

Aamir Khan's Dangal has created an unrepresented landmark in China today by becoming the 33rd film in Chinese cin

Six minor girls of a family who allegedly went "missing" from Nashik two days ago, were rescued by city police after they

New Delgi [India], July 22 (ANI): With the world celebrating the 48th anniversary of the first lunar landing, Bolly

New Delhi, Jul 21 (PTI) A youth has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the killing of a 30-year-old man in Dwark

New Delhi [India], July 21 (ANI): Imtiaz Ali's much awaited 'Jab Harry Met Sejal' released its first full-fledged t

New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI): Indian Super League (ISL) franchise NorthEast United have taken their first majo

New Delhi [India], July 19 (ANI): A Unicef India official on Wednesday lauded the Centre's approach towards solving

New York [USA], Jul 16 (ANI): 'Neerja' was the big winner of the 2017 International Indian Film Academy (IIFA), whe

New York [US], July 15 (ANI): Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan, who will join the inimitable Karan Johar to host the 18

New York [USA], July 15 (ANI): Extremely excited to attend International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) award function,

Zero (Arunachal Pradesh) [India], July 14 (ANI): Arunachal Pradesh, which is currently gripped in the celebrations

New York [US], July 14(ANI): The International Indian Film Academy have commenced in the city here! The anticipatio

Sandip Roy in Colorlines:

I remember the age of the underwear-smugglers.
 
When I left India almost two decades ago to come to America, my mother folded every spice I could possibly need into my underwear. Turmeric, cumin, little green pods of cardamom—all packed carefully between layers of underwear, socks and computer science textbooks. I wasn’t the only one. I’ve met Indians who smuggled in mangos, homemade pickles and ready-to-fry puris stuffed with peas. In those days before 9/11, customs officials were not very interested in me—a young, single, brown man from a turbulent part of the world. They (and their sniffing dogs) were much more preoccupied with middle-aged Indian women visiting their sons. They were rifling through their luggage, searching for contraband mangos and gourds.

Fast-forward 20 years...

India is everywhere. It’s in Booker Prize lists, spelling bees and specially-for-you nuclear deals. It’s in Sukhi’s homecooked chicken tikka masala paste at Whole Foods. It’s in Bhangra aerobics classes and Britney remixes. Newsweek called South Asians the “new American masala.” Five hundred years after Christopher Columbus thought he had discovered Indians, we are truly found.

And I am not sure how I feel about that.

More here

HT: CM Naim

My big Bollywood break came while I was walking down a side street in Mumbai, talking on a cell phone to a man named Imran.

"How many people with you?" he asked.
"Just me."
"No problem. You got long hair, short hair?"
"No hair," I said.
"No problem. You how old?
"Forty-four."