The critic, journalist, and essayist has two new books just out—one a meditation on two anti-terrorist trials and what they tell us about our post-9/11 world (A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny...
Curating the best of Asian and Asian-American cuisine in Queens, this Monday, September 6th the Asian “Feastival” will serve up both innovative and traditional Asian foods along with tutorials on how to spice up your...
Ongoing flooding has affected up to 20 million people and devastated Pakistan’s infrastructure. Relief has been slow to arrive, complicated by the political situation even as US drone attacks continue in the...
MI21 reimagines and reworks Mother India, the epic Bollywood film that captures the post-colonial Indian psyche, into a performance piece - 60 minutes of visual images accompanied live by a DJ and musicians. We'll...
Plans to build mosques in downtown Manhattan near the World Trade Center site, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and in Midland Beach, trudge forward, meeting resistance at every step. This past Sunday, there was yet...
Nearly 200,000 farmers have committed suicide in India in the past ten years, but this fact is ignored by much of the mainstream Indian media. A new documentary follows veteran journalist P.Sainath as he puts faces and...
For Pakistani Americans, will May 1, 2010 mark a turning point—for the worse? Are we in a post-Faisal Shahzad era? In the wake of the attempted Times Square bombing, already the government has talked about “severe...
Last week’s ambush of a paramilitary police force by Maoist rebels in India marked the latest and largest in a series of incidents which have been escalating over the past year. The Maoist movement has been growing for...
Obama has deployed almost 100,000 troops to Afghanistan. The Taliban is again on the rise. Civilian and military deaths are doubling and tripling. So called Afghanistan “experts” are on the news 24/7. But do we know...
Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani neuroscientist, has been described alternately as one of the most wanted women connected to al-Qaeda and as an innocent victim of the US-led regime of “enforced disappearances.” After ten...
