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The Hollywood Connection in U.S.-India Relations

Richard F. Celeste | Posted 11.24.2009 | World

Read More: New Delhi, Indian Politics, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, President Barack Obama, President Obama, India, Bollywood, Hollywood, Strategic Relationships, World News
Richard F. Celeste

For all the glamor attached to Hollywood and Bollywood in their home countries, their potential in fostering bilateral ties has been scarcely appreciated. But the entertainment sector can be a foreign policy connection.

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India: As Commonwealth Games Approach, Delhi Targets Its Donkeys

GlobalPost | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: India, Delhi, New Delhi, India Commonwealth Games, Delhi Commonwealth Games, Animals, Donkeys, India Donkeys, World News

NEW DELHI, India -- At the impromptu stables near Jawarhalal Nehru Marg, on the outskirts of Old Delhi -- the Indian capital's 400-year-old core -- a ...

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India: Medical Tourism Draws Attention Away From Disastrous Conditions At Most Hospitals

Global Post | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Read More: Medical Tourism, India, India Medical Tourism, Health, India Health Care, New Delhi, How Does Hospitals Work in India, India: Medical Tourism Draws Attention Away From Disastrous Conditions at Most ... - Huffington Post, Percent India in Medical Field, Medical Tourism India News 2009, India Gdp, Indian Medical, World News

By Jason Overdorf NEW DELHI, India -- Seema sits cross-legged on a filthy sheet of cardboard next to a crumbling concrete planter in the central sq...

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Slumdogs And Americans: Equal Opportunity Police Brutality in India

Mira Kamdar | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Journalists, New Delhi, Police Brutality, Maximum City, India, Police, Slumdog Millionaire, World News
Mira Kamdar

Anyone who has seen Slumdog Millionaire, remembers the scenes of police torture. Last week, American journalist, Joel Elliott, got to experience that violence first-hand.

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Dear President Lula, Again

David Harris | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Brazil, New Delhi, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Human Rights, Atomic Energy Agency, Tehran, United Nations, Obama Visit to Brazil, Israel, South America, Two-State Solution, Barack Obama, Iran Negotiations, Juala Lumpur, World News
David Harris

Why would Brazil, today a towering bastion of democratic values, seek closer ties with Iran, its polar opposite?

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India Clinic Offers Stem Cell Treatments To Americans In Need

globalpost.com | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: India, Geeta Shroff, Nu Tech Mediworld, Stem Cell, India Stem Cell Clinic, New Delhi, India Stem Cell, Health, World News

NEW DELHI, India -- In December 2007, Californian Amy Scher got on a plane to India, wheeled herself into the Nu Tech Mediworld hospital in New Delhi,...

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Air India Pilots, Crew Brawl During Flight

Times Of India | Saurabh Sinha & Neha Lalchandani | Posted 12.03.2009 | World

Read More: New Delhi, Fight, Crew, Sharjah, India, Pilots, Air India, World News

NEW DELHI: The Maharaja witnessed his first in-flight Mughal-e-Azam at 30,000 feet above sea level on Saturday, as two members of the cabin crew--one ...

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Financial Times Withdraws Award To Narendra Modi, Gujarat's Chief Minister

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Council of Indian Muslims, Commission on International Religious Freedom, Rss, Violence Against Women, Babri Mosque, Human Rights Watch, Narendra Modi, Immigration and Nationality Act, Hindu Nationalism, Vijay Prashad, Indian Human Rights, Amnesty International, Sangh Parivar, Indian Muslims, Vhp, Foreign Direct Investment, Mira Kamdar, New Delhi, Hindu-Muslim Riots, Pearson Group, Marjorie Scardino, Financial TImes, Modi Government, Godhra, Asian Personality of the Year, Muslims in India, Gujarat, Ayodyha, Hindutva, Fdi, Modi, India, World News
Sanjeev Bery

Following growing public criticism, the Financial Times magazine fDi has withdrawn its recent "Asian Personality of the Year" award to Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the Indian state of Gujarat.

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India Pale Ale Beer To Finally Be Brewed In India

GlobalPost | Jason Overdorf | Posted 09.12.2009 | World

Read More: Lager, Wheat Beers, India, Ipa, Kingfisher Beer, Ales, Lagers, New Delhi, Beer, Indian Beer, India Pale Ale, World News

NEW DELHI -- Ask Indians about the British, and they'll tell you the colonizers built a cracking railway, created an impregnable bureaucracy and edu...

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India's Child Bride TV Sensation Aims To Change An Ancient Tradition

Global Post | Jason Overdorf | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: India, Rajasthan, New Delhi, Child Bride, Color, India Color, Child Marriage, India Child Marriage, Balika Vadhu, World News

NEW DELHI -- Defying all the conventional wisdom about Indian television viewers -- notorious for dogged allegiance to campy soap operas that pitted...

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India: Maoists Hijack Train Filled With 700 Passengers

The Times Of India | Sonali Das | Posted 05.23.2009 | World

Read More: Latehar India, India, Naxalites, Maoist, Maoist Rebels, New Delhi, India Train Hijacked, Jharkhand, Maoist India, India Train, Jharkhand India, World News

NEW DELHI: The hostage crisis on board a train at Latehar in Jharkhand has ended with the Naxalites releasing the passengers. All the passengers are b...

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Thousands of Children Go Missing Every Year In India

GlobalPost | By Jason Overdorf | Posted 04.26.2009 | World

Read More: India National Crime Records Bureau, India Slums, New Delhi, India, Child Trafficking, Save the Children Movement, Children Missing in India, Prostitution Rings, India Child Trafficking, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, World News

NEW DELHI -- Meena, a careworn mother of six children whose wrinkled face and stringy limbs make her look much older than her 30 years, takes a tiny...

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Tata's $2,000 Nano Sedan Comes With Its Own Heavy Baggage

Steve Parker | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: Europe, BMW Mini, Ferrari, Kabuki Theater, Narita International Airport, Cars, Bentley, Rupee, Sumo, Ratan Tata, Bengal State, New Delhi, Rolls-Royce, Smart Car, Hindu, Trinamool Congress, Buddhist, India, Tokyo, Times of India, Tata Nano, Harley-Davidson, Milwaukee, Jaguar, Land Rover, World News
Steve Parker

Tata and Nano have become poster children for nameless government bureaucracy and corporate arrogance.

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Fathers: Bring Your Daughters to School

Pedro C. Moreno | Posted 04.04.2009 | World

Read More: Bolivia, New Delhi, Women's Rights, Women, Kiran Walia, Women's Health, Unesco, Fathers and Daughters, Fatherhood, International Women's Day, Fathers, Deepalaya, Fada, World News
Pedro C. Moreno

We absolutely need to work together, women and men, fathers and mothers, in the education and protection of all children -- especially girls.

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Holbrooke Holds Talks In India, Discusses Relations With Pakistan

Al Jezeera | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

Read More: Islamabad, Richard Holbrooke Envoy, India, South Asia, Afghanistan, New Delhi, Us Envoy Middle East, Richard Holbrooke, Pakistan, Mumbai Attacks, Mumbai Terrorist Attacks, World News

The new US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan has met Indian officials and discussed Afghanistan and simmering tensions between New Delhi and I...

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Admiring Continents

Pablo Ganguli | Posted 03.01.2009 | Style

Read More: India, Michel Foucault, South Pacific, Morocco, New Delhi, Mumbai, Travel, Film, Mothers, Paris, Papua New Guinea, Jacques Derrida, Calcutta, North Africa, Quentin Crisp, Sagittarius, Marrakesh, Traveling, Africa, Moms, Europe, Style News
Pablo Ganguli

I still do not know what possessing Indian nationality signifies. I have always felt so very un-Indian with only rare flashbacks of nostalgia for things from the sub-continent.

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Indian Muslims Protest Police Harassment in New Delhi

Timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: New Delhi, Islam, Indian Muslims Protest, Muslims, Batla House Encounter, Coordination Committee of Indian Muslims, South Asia, India, Police Harassment, Jantar Mantar, Anti-Terror Laws, Ulema Council, World News

Demanding a judicial probe into the Batla House encounter and to stop alleged "harassment" of Muslim youths by the police, thousands of people from Az...

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Surfin' Swamis: Catching Waves, And Spirituality, In India

GlobalPost.com | Jason Overdorf | Posted 01.18.2009 | World

Read More: India Today, Globalpost, India Surfing, Surfin Swamis, India, Mckinsey, Monks Surfing, Krishna, Swami, New Delhi, Society of Kriskna Consciousness, South India, World News

NEW DELHI -- Swami Bhakti Gaurava Narasingha paddles hard and drops into a 6-foot wave off the coast of Mangalore in South India. As the 61-year-o...

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The World's Most Dangerous Nuclear Threat

Eric Margolis | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Kashmir Protesters, Pakistan, New Delhi, United States, Barack Obama, Pakistan Democracy, Afghanistan War, Kashmir, Iraq War, u.s. Foreign Policy, Muslim, Delhi, Musharraf, Eric Margolis, Benazir Bhutto, Mumbai Attacks, Asif Zadari, India, Mumbai, Jihad, Nuclear Power, Politics News
Eric Margolis

Special for the Huffington Post Eric S. Margolis December 18, 2008 The bitter struggle over the beautiful Himalayan mountain state of Kashmir is the ...

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In Most Crucial Election Ever, an Open and Shut Case

Mort Rosenblum | Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Debate, Palin, Russia, Obama, Mccain, Iraq, Republicans, Democrats, Biden, Election, Foreign Policy, John McCain, Bill of Rights, New Delhi, Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, Barack Obama, Juan Luis Rodriquez Zapatero, 2008 Presidential Race, Nikita Khrushchev, India, Politics News
Mort Rosenblum

For our children's sake, it is time to put aside partisanship, prejudices, and petty side issues.

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India Puts Children On The Front Line

Dipayan Gupta | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: India, Olympic Protest, Children, Torch, Protest, Dalai Lama, New Delhi, Olympic Relay, Tibet, New York Times, Chinese Embassy, China, Front Lines, Olympics, Politics News
Dipayan Gupta

Who is the government going to allow to cheer on the torch bearers as they pass through New Delhi? According to The New York Times, "selected schoolchildren."

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