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Dreams, dharma and Mrs. Doubtfire: exploring Hindi popular cinema via its "chutneyed" Western scripts
Abstract: The author introduces the popular films of Bombay--or of Bollywood, as it is familiarly know--via that industry's odd but practical proclivity ......(Continue Reading) The ecstasy of God's dancers: now more than ever the world needs a gentle, tolerant version of Islam. Sufism is exactly that, but it faces growing hostility
Six years ago, in the autumn of 1998, I was sitting in a roadside tea shop surrounded by the desert landscape of Rajasthan, when I saw a succession of bicycle rickshaws appear over the horizon. The...(Continue Reading)SCOPE: New wave hits world's largest film industry
NEW DELHI, Feb. 28 Kyodo ''Black'' is the latest hue of India's film industry, the world's largest, which has been painting the silver screen with ......(Continue Reading)Ghosts in the city of widows: when their husbands die, devout indian women make the pilgrimage to Vrindavan, where they will pray for others, and await
Vrindavan is a city of widows, of ashrams, temples and Lodging-houses for the wasted women of India, whose husbands have died and whose children have ......(Continue Reading)In praise of vulgarity: How commercial culture liberates Islam—and the West
WHO WILL EVER forget the strangeness of the first images out of post-Taliban Afghanistan, when the streets ran with beards? As one city after another ......(Continue Reading)
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