He is a star in his own right from his numerous appearances in The Simpson’s. He’s even had episodes with him has the central character and interestingly enough his Indianness (or Hinduness if you will) was often the central theme. Apu, as an Indian in the UK or the Americas you either love or you hate him. He’s either refreshingly hilarious or an insulting stereotype. He could well be one or the other, or even both. But as far as I’m concerned

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After all your responses and show of concern over my article on the handling of a certain mandir in Southall, I felt it was only right to keep you informed of developments since then. A few days after Hindu Voice had featured the first article, the President thought he would make a “friendly” call to my mother. He said that me (Nidhi) is like his daughter (hasn’t seen me in 6 years) and I should not have written that article. So, he decided that he would come over to our house and speak with me…

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The Hindu wedding ceremony can seem like a drag for most of the guests, who are always itching to get a taste of the gorgeous feast. For the friends and family of the bride however it is a time of great excitement, pleasure, and enjoyment. For the couple, the ceremony marks the embarking into the second stage of life…

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British colonialism ended a long time ago, but in some parts of India rules and customs exist that would make the colonisers of the past very proud at their lasting legacy. For example, witness the beef eating clubs that still exist in West Bengal. A recent bizarre example is the example’s of Chennai’s (the capital of Tamil Nadu’s) most prestigious cricket club denying entry to a civil servant only because he was dressed in a veshti…

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The Hindu funeral pyre has undergone changes to make it less harmful for the environment by dramatically reducing the carbon emission by 60 percent released during the final rites. The 60 year old engineer, Vinod Kumar Agarwal, was inspired to redesign the traditional funeral pyre after his experience on the banks of the river Ganga…

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Anandamayi Ma (pictures below) was an influential female saint, whose teachings have inspired and continue to inspire hundreds of thousands of devotees around the world. She lived from 1896 - 1981. The quotes of power listed here show glimpses of her wisdom…

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I was raised as a Catholic and went to Catholic school. My uncle was, and still is, a missionary. We were told that he was going to South America to save the souls of the Native Americans, people we were told were non-Christian and without conversion would suffer eternal damnation. This is the background that I came from. We were taught that Hinduism was a religion of idolatry; it was a religion of polytheism and superstition and that there was no place for Hindus in heaven. Even a great Hindu like Mahatma Gandhi…

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It takes its plot from a six hour long gun battle between a horde of cops and a group of gangsters. The shootout happened in real life on 11 November 1991 in Lokhandwala, a residential neighbourhood in Mumbai. More than 3000 rounds of ammunition were fired by the police, making it the largest non-military shootout in modern history, and part of urban legend. So why did the police do this? Who were they after?

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After the terrible Nishabdh, in which Amitabh Bachan’s 60 year old character scandalously falls in love with his daughter’s 18-year-old friend who had come to stay with them for summer, I was all ready to hate Cheeni Kum before even watching it, being yet another film in which a horny Big B gets jiggy with a girl less than half his age (in this case the film shows that he is older even than the girl’s father)…

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Well summer is finally here. But you wouldn’t think it from the crappy weather and shitty films we’ve been getting lately. I’ve been trying to find a new film release for the whole month that I could say some nice things about and despite all the big summer releases, not found even one. At one point I was feeling really nostalgic at the prospect of reviewing the sequel to a film we had reviewed earlier: Pirates of the Caribbean. But on further reflection I thought I’d use this opportunity to sing praises of a film that I wanted to review earlier - The Lives of Other…

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