cover story
Gulshan
Grover
Rajiv Vijayakar
He’s
arguably the most sought after villain in India. And now he’s getting
badder, by going on to Hollywood projects. Rajiv Vijayakar met with Gulshan
Gover at his Mumbai residence and over lunch discussed what makes him the
transcontinental villain.
A bad man rarely gets rewards.
But Gulshan Grover keeps getting them. After all, he is a bad man par excellence.
And the only one in Hindi cinema who keeps experimenting ? with roles, genres,
and with cinema of every kind. more
Highlights
COVER
STORY
Bad
R.M. Vijayakar profiles Gulshan Grover, the most sought-after villain, lately,
even in Hollywood.
FASTLANE
Irreverently Yours
S. Mitra Kalita meets with Russell Peters, the ribald and riotous stand-up
comedian of South Asian origin.
SOCIETY
Secret Lives of Indian Teens
Sarmishta Ramesh lifts the veil of deception that hides the sexual activities
of Indian American youth.
GUEST
COLUMN
Hindus Besieged
Mihir Meghani cautions the faithful to be wary of Christians who are bent
on conversions.
LOOKING
GLASS
A Painter Among Us
Sarmishta Ramesh talks to Pavani Kaushik, a young artist in the San Francisco
Bay Area.
BUSINESS
No Biz Like Show Biz
Mandira Banerjee examines why successful Indian American professionals are
getting into filmmaking.
MATINEE
A Conversation With B
Neil Shah discusses the emerging trends in the Hindi film world with Amitabh
Bachchan.
A
classicist artistically and a radical humanist socially, Dr. Ratna Roy is
a self-described ‘womanist.’ From the backwaters of Bihar to the
rain drenched Washington state, Roy’s creative and cultural life expressed
through Odissi is all about political activism, Priyanka Joshi writes.
Artist,
Activist, RATNA ROY
Priyanka Joshi
The
eyes of Olympia, Wash.-based artist and political activist Ratna Roy dance around
the room as she talks about her pet topic, “Racial and Sexual Inequality,”
and how she is using Odissi dance as a weapon to fight it. You notice her large,
expressive eyes, full of tenderness and just a little bit of pain. more
The
Secret Lives of Indian Teens
Sarmishta Ramesh
Surveys
have established that American middle and high school students are sexually
active. What about Indian American teens, who are known for their academic accomplishments?
Are they immune to the pervasive sexual revolution among American teens? Sarmishta
Ramesh makes some startling discoveries.
So,
you think you have the situation under control with your teenager at home. Like
every other “desi” parent, you’ve probably made sure your
child has taken enough AP (advanced placement) classes in high school, loaded
your teen with music or dance lessons that will look good on college resumes,
and spent all your spare time driving them back and forth from games, speech
contests and dance competitions. more
Irreverently
Yours, Russell Peters
S. Mitra Kalita
S.
Mitra Kalita meets with Russell Peters, the Canadian of Indian origin, who's
been laughing all the way to the bank riffing South Asians of every hue in his
sold-out stand-up shows around the world.
Consider
yourself warned. Nobody is safe in comedian Russell Peters' audience. Not blacks,
not whites. Not women nor men. And, most of all, not South Asians. In the first
five minutes of a recent sold-out show at George Washington University in Washington,
D.C., Peters spotted an older couple amid the sea of otherwise youthful faces
and singled out the "uncle and auntie" and asked their names. more
