Moment of desi pride at the Oscars
Lost in the diversity controversy at the Oscars Sunday night was this: The only woman of color who won was Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Who? That's the problem. Very few people in…
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March 2, 2016
The price of independence
It's too bad "Midnight's Children" was a bust at the box office. I'm thinking that Deepa Mehta was perhaps the wrong director to give us the celluloid depiction of Salman…
August 14, 2013
Freedom and flooding
A difficult agreement created Pakistan 63 years ago. The "land of the pure" was partitioned off from India and both nations became independent -- Pakistan on August 14, 1947 and…
August 14, 2010