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Anjula Gogia, the activist bookseller from Another Story Bookshop in Toronto, had patiently nudged me over a few weeks to introduce and host Arundhati Roy on stage when she read[…]
This month Time magazine released its annual “TIME 100” list of the year’s most influential people and included Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. After all, he is the newly-inaugurated leader of[…]
“Why?” If I had a nickel for every time someone asked me last week why I was going to the Narendra Modi event in Madison Square Garden on Sunday, I’d be[…]
Extra gunpowder, please. For a man who’s built a colossal empire on the “holy trinity of south Indian snacks” (dosa, idli and vada, for those who were wondering), P. Rajagopal[…]
So it appears that Narendra Modi is on the cusp of becoming India’s next Prime Minister. We’ll begin to get a real picture of the election results in about a[…]
• Oh, dear. Apparently Indian intellectuals are backing Narendra Modi and the BJP, whose most greatest hits include supporting Section 377. [Quartz] • The Hundred-Foot Journey is being billed as a[…]
Top Gere. Padma Lakshmi’s got a penchant for silver foxes — first Salman Rushdie, then venture capitalist Teddy Forstmann, and now…Richard Gere? Even CNN.com took time off from its exhaustive[…]
Spamming people on Twitter is a big no-no and you’d think that a major Indian political party would know that. As Buzzfeed’s Tasneem Nashrulla points out, “If you tweeted the[…]
The Power of Voting. Google India has released yet another emotional ad. In 1951 — the year of the country’s first election — Shyam Negi became the first person to[…]
Bollywood Star Shills for Narendra Modi. Bollywood star Meghna Patel has decided to “bare it all” in a strikingly nude photo shoot, urging people to vote for prime ministerial candidate[…]
