Hyderabad is the sort of city that makes poets out of ordinary men. It has a history of being home to different sorts of people, accepting them with an easy charm that only Hyderabad knows. Centuries ago, in the days of the Golconda kingdom, it was the center of international...

It may be true that President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for promise rather than achievement, but let us not forget that there is at least one point on which he has already proven himself -- and this is a point that Mahatma Gandhi, that greatest of Peace...

1) Listen to Yesudas's beautiful rendition of the song "Ahimsa."

2) Visit (online at least) the Gandhi gallery of the Sacred World Foundation.

3) Watch the 2006 Bollywood hit Lage Raho Munnabhai.

4) Make a list of truly Gandhian things one could do instead if one could...

Rock may have smashed the iron curtain, but it was just the moonwalk that did it for India.

My generation came of age during the last years of the Nehruvian era. Among other things, what this meant was that Western pop culture was barely affordable or accessible to most...

Two days before Earth Day, I took my Global Media class out on a limb by relocating us to the shade of a giant tree to begin a discussion of the history of human culture through the seemingly odd reference point of our relationship to the cow. Before we...

With all the issues whirling about in the wake of Slumdog Millionaire's Oscar sweep, a two-letter word from the acceptance speech of the winner of an award in a technical category may seem far too obscure to blog about. But the word was "Om," and the category was sound.

"The One" is now President and has already done one nice thing no President apparently did before. The newest of messiahs has acknowledged the oldest of religions. He mentioned Christians, Muslims, Jews, and non-believers. And he mentioned Hindus. Those are the words on the front page of today's Times of...

One thing I heard frequently from my American friends in San Francisco as the attacks on Mumbai unfolded was the hope that India would not react to them the way the U.S. did to 9/11. I understood the decency of that sentiment, and agreed with it. Over the next few...

It started with what, in my view, was an inappropriate preposition. In the end, what Mumbai ended up looking like to viewers and readers in the West was something far removed from the magnitude of its loss, and from the realities of fact and perspective. From the first hours of...