Ahead of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s “private visit” to India this month, noted Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid looks at Pakistan’s state of domestic and international affairs. As its relationship with long-time ally, the United States, lurches from one crisis to another, Mr. Rashid describes Pakistan’s handling of its ally, the [...]
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Pakistan On The Brink: Q&A With ...
Ahead of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s “private visit” to India this month, noted Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid looks at Pakistan’s state of domestic and international affairs. As its relationship with long-time ally, the United States, lurches from one crisis to another, Mr. Rashid describes Pakistan’s handling of its ally, the [...]
Q&A: Michelin-starred MasterChef...
Is Amritsar-born Michelin-starred chef Vikas Khanna on the road to becoming cooking’s latest crossover star? A Cordon Bleu chef and executive chef at Junoon restaurant in New York, Mr. Khanna’s main inspiration stems from the mustard fields of Punjab.
Currently the co-host of cooking program MasterChef India 2, Mr. Khanna spoke to India Real [...]
Who Wants To Be Bruce Lee?
A few weeks ago, I witnessed the unfortunate collapse of my weakly-structured exercise regime. A bout of laziness steered me away from the gym. Too many “cat poses” and “downward dog” postures saw me crawl away on all fours from my power yoga class and some pointing and laughing at my dancing abilities at my salsa lessons saw me slink away i [...]
The Iran Crisis: Expert Trita Parsi o...
Tensions over a nuclear-armed Iran continue to keep oil on the boil with Brent crude hovering around $125 a barrel. With no end in sight to the standoff between the West and Iran, India has its work cut out.
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“W” Train Elimination ...
The MTA is getting set to eliminate the Queens bound W train, drawing howls of protest from Astoria residents (Pic Courtesy: The Daily News)
The “W” line that runs from Astoria, Queens, to Manhattan’s South Ferry is the quintessential middle child. It has trouble attracting attention and competes with its three other sib [...]
Queens Day Laborers Draw Residents...
Day laborers gather at Hart Part, Queens for a hot breakfast given by a local soup kitchen. Residents are angry at the increasing crowds milling outside the park (Photo: Smriti Rao)
On any given day, you would find day worker Jose Manuel at Hart Park, 69th at 37th Avenue, Jackson Heights. The painter from Mexico comes to the park each morning [...]
The Skinny on Fat Chick
Helen Fielding's clumsy protagonist Bridget Jones struggles with the double whammy of making wrong choices; both with her food and with her men!
Peer into any chick-lit lover’s bookshelf and you might spot the obligatory Bridget Jones’ Diary, The Devil Wears Prada and the terrifyingly titled Skinny Bitch. Page after soppy page details th [...]
Tiger’s Loss, Leo’s Gain!
Ta Ta Tiger! Tag Heuer is the latest company after Accenture, Gillette, AT&T to drop Tiger Woods from their campaigns
The Tiger saga continues to play out like a train wreck on a car wreck.
In the third biggest endorsement loss this month, Swiss watch maker Tag Heuer has dropped Tiger Woods from their marketing campaign.
The move comes a [...]
Obama’s Afghan Troop Surge: Fiv...
Tony Karon’s new Time Magazine defiantly denounces President Obama’s call for a troop escalation.
Its title, Five Flawed Assumptions of Obama’s Afghan Surge, says it all, and the piece itself summarizes concisely points that this site and many others have been arguing for months:
1. Expanding the ground war against the Talib [...]
An Argumentative Indian, Speaks!
Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Economics Prize, 1998. Pic Courtesy: Outlook Magazine
‘Tis the Nobel season anyways, and while we are yakking up Obama and his Nobel Peace Prize, here is another winner. Albeit for economics, and from another year. Amartya Sen won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998 for his work in welfare economics. [...]