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...Over a generation ago, the more procurable “Green Card” craze brought many Indians (including my own parents) overseas for greater opportunity—suitors for marriage then labeled “export-quality” spouses. Today, even in a country whose growth outstrips America??s, the weight of Western ideas is ever growing, even as American immigration borders are drawn tighter. Is this attempt at emulating Western culture indicative of mistaken perceptions—perceptions that characterize Indians as desperately in need of a culture other than their...

Author: By Ashin D. Shah | Title: The Allure of Western Culture | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...both Western tastes and a growing middle-class with ever more disposable income. But isn’t it odd that even recent cinematic history still records India’s rise from slums-to-riches as possible only with the Western helping hand—an adaptation of America??s Who Wants to be a Millionaire...

Author: By Ashin D. Shah | Title: The Allure of Western Culture | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...India is not a colony to be ruled or a market to be capitalized, but a country of its own, with unwritten stories of slumdog millionaires that outnumber America??s four-to-one. Why say that India lags a decade behind the U.S., when its course should be its own? History has already written the American path toward economic and cultural modernization. Now, let India have its turn...

Author: By Ashin D. Shah | Title: The Allure of Western Culture | 7/29/2009 | See Source »

...YORK, N.Y. — BookExpo America didn’t seem like the dregs of a dying industry. BEA, North America??s largest convention of publishers, authors, and printers, looked like the biggest book fair I’d ever seen: miles of aisles, spanning 22 acres, spread over 16 hours...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: Judging an Industry by Its Cover | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

...wife’s divorce lawyer deal with that. There are plenty of policy issues that the left could use to attack Berlusconi, but let’s leave sex out of this. Seriously, Italy, don’t be such a prude—that’s America?...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman | Title: When Sex Shouldn’t Matter | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

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