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...Bangladesh quoted a man from Dhaka's Kawran Bazaar who was unafraid to speak to reporters about extortionists who don't hesitate to kill if they are refused their protection money. He said, "Whether you publish our names or not, we are all dead men in this market." Indians can very well imagine the abysmal depths to which Bangladesh has sunk, because of the situation in the Indian state of Bihar, which is beset by similar troubles. The government's failure to control crime and violence is largely a result of a running feud between political parties. Overriding all this...
...Theater, sings and dances to a vigorous bhangra and, feeling his rock-star-in-the-making oats, shouts, "Are ya with me, Bombay? ... Are ya with me, New York?" This scene from the new musical Bombay Dreams poses the cultural question of the moment. South Asian pop--Bollywood movies, Indian music and dance, the whole vibrant masala of subcontinental culture--not only enthralls a billion Indians at home but also spans half the world, from Africa and the Middle East to Eastern Europe and the Indian diaspora in Britain and the U.S. Now Indi-pop is close to a critical...
Tamarind Bay, an Indian bistro and bar, is also set to open across the street from Pinocchio’s, where Casa Mexico used to be. The owners could not be reached for comment yesterday...
...finds her arrival in Hollywood a little hard to believe. "For a long time I was skeptical," she says. "But now I'm realizing it might be for real." Her hope, she says, is to lead an Indian invasion, to "catalyze" Bollywood's crossover to the West and "open the doors for everybody else." But with aspiration comes fear too. "I'm stepping out of my comfort zone," she says, "leaving all that adulation to be a newcomer again." Somehow, we suspect, the adulation will follow her. --By Alex Perry
...book Light on Yoga--with 300 pages of instruction and photographs of postures, or asanas--introduced yoga to people around the globe. Aficionados founded Iyengar groups in the U.S. as early as 1974 and slowly fed what has become mainstream Western acceptance of a 3,000-year-old Indian tradition...