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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) Grannie doesn't skip a bhangra beat - once the music of Punjabi peasants, bhangra has been transformed into popular music embraced by Indian youth
Sudhanva Deshpande [*] A lighthearted look at how elite youth "dig" their roots through expatriate relations The hi-fl is playing Bruce Springsteen, ......(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)Bully for Bollywood! The film industry in Bombay—nicknamed `Bollywood'—is bigger and busier than its counterpart in Los Angeles, but Americans
In a scenario derived from Agatha Christie, a murderer is bumping off the survivors of a plane crash on a deserted island. So what do these endangered ......(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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