India Currents is pleased to announce a new initiative with San Jose Beez, an online collaboration of ethnic media organizations featuring hyper-local news content covering the San Jose area. In addition to the general interest articles and calendar of events featured in ...

Now that President Obama has declared swine flu a national emergency, I thought it made sense to put up these simple tips to help protect you. These are courtesy a chain mail from a friend via India, not the best of ...

The camera lovingly follows the contours of an underwater paradise. Incurious fish gently swim away from the light as the camera glides over sting rays, around coral and through populous grottos. As the credits roll, Shreya Ghoshal’s powerhouse voice begins the opening notes of the Bondesque song “Rehnuma.” It is ...

For the year-end issue of India Currents magazine, I'd like to feature some of your stories. How did you survive 2009? What tips would you like to share? What are your strategies to cope with the fairly bleak scenario for next year? Send me your stories via comments here or to ...

This past week, torrential rains in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh caused flooding, rendering hundreds of people homeless and thousands of others unable to travel or find food. The local governments approached Akshaya Patra and asked the organization to provide meals to ...

Akshaya Patra, the organization that provides meals for underprivileged kids,  has reached a triumphant moment by crossing the one million mark and is now feeding over a million children in 17 kitchens in seven states in India. To commemorate the milestone, come celebrate with luminaries like Narayana  Murthy at a benefit ...

Yesterday's news must have caused the premature demise of dozens of computer keyboards, as coffee went spraying out of reader's mouths when they saw the headlines. It almost seemed like a hoax; indeed, one White House staffer is said to have asked if it was April 1st, when informed ...

Gone are the days of my childhood where we just lounged around in the torpid heat, content to re-read our books and be bored till the cooler evenings when we would hang out with our friends. Kids today spend summer in camps (usually with an academic component), given the busy ...

The idea of Sevathon, an India Community Center project, was to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's birthday by hosting a walk/run where participants would have the opportunity to find sponsorships for their various charities by getting pledges. The format is not unlike many other runs and marathons. In addition, ICC put together ...

Wake Up Sid can be described in half-a-dozen words: Rich Spoilt Slacker Dude Grows Up. This much-used theme has been the premise of several multiplex movies starring (the now-aging) Saif Ali Khan, who passes on his mantle to the younger, hunkier Ranbir Kapoor.The movie is set in Bombay, not Mumbai, ...