Musical Crossings

Asian Dub Foundation videos: "Fortress Europe" and "New Way New Life"
Panjabi MC videos: "Mundian To Bach Ke" and "Jogi"
Karmacy Video: "Blood Brothers"
Gurpreet Chana (AKA "The Tabla Guy") performing at the Toronto Raptors half-time show
Daler Mehndi video: "Tunak Tunak Tan!"
Bollywood hit Bundy aur Babli video clips: "BnB" rap and "Kajra Re"
"All Things Considered" Segment on MTV's new Asian Pop Channels
An AsiaWeek article on Daler Mehndi and bhangra pop music, 8 Aug. 1997
A Washington Post review of Panjabi MC's CD Beware

Bollystan

Parag Khanna's article, "Bollystan--the Global India," from The Globalist 3 Dec. 2004
Times of India 1 Sept. 2004 Article, "Empress Ash in Bollystan"
Online edition of US-based Little India
UC Berkeley's South Asia Resources and South Asian Diaspora page
The Government of India's High Level Committee on Indian Diaspora

Flat Earth Society?

Thomas Friedman on News Hour with Jim Lehrer, 9 Mar. 2004
Friedman's lecture at MIT, 16 May 2005, on his book The World is Flat
Alexander Cockburn's "Thomas Friedman's Imaginary World," Counterpunch Jun. 2005
Harish Trivedi's "Cyber Coolies" piece in Little India Oct. 2004
Pushkar Raj on Mumbai's slum demolition program, with photos, Jul. 2005
Hindustan Times article, 5 Mar. 2005, on Bangalore's 10 Downing Development
A Washington Post-produced slide show on the emerging "call center culture" in India

India's Global Literature

Tarun J. Tejpal's article, "The New Masters" in AsiaWeek 8 Aug. 1997
An overview of contemporary Indian Fiction in English from AsiaSource, 28 Jun. 2000
Critical reflections on Indian Literature in English from The Hindu, 4 Jun. 2000
Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children wins the "Booker of Bookers" Award
Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance makes it to Oprah's Book Club
An interview with Arundhati Roy from The Progressive
A brief interview with Kiran Desai, from the Random House website
Alan Cheuse's NPR review of The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai
Christopher Rollason on Vikram Chandra's narrative style
An interview with Jhumpa Lahiri on News Hour with Jim Lehrer, 16 Oct. 2003
An earlier interview on News Hour, 12 Apr. 2000, when Lahiri won the Pulitzer

News of the Day

What English language newspaper has the world's largest circulation? The Times of India
Hindustan Times is another leading national newspaper
The People's Paper, Tehelka
For news of Bollywood and the "page 3 crowd," Mid-Day is a must-read
EPW provides lay and scholarly analysis of Indian economics and politics
See also the India Together website for articles on development and globalization in India
Atlanta-based India China and America Institute (ICA) has a useful page of links
ZNet's South Asia Watch is an activist website covering a range of social issues
Human Rights Watch also provides coverage of south Asian social issues
And for analysis of media, see The Hoot website