Fueled by immigration, America's Hindu population has reached 2.23 million, an increase of about one million or 85.8 percent since 2007, making Hinduism the fourth-largest faith, according to estimates based on wide-rang...

There is something universally relatable about watching someone encounter Bollywood music for the very first time — the initial confusion at the melodrama, the involuntary head-bob when the beat kicks in, and the slow, h...

Bad breath – nobody talks about it, nobody points it out and sometimes you are not even aware that you are possessed by it. Bad breath is a social taboo. It is hard to be around a person who has bad breath and much harde...

Facebook friends could change credit score A new trend – lenders would be giving loans not just on your credit score but also on the kind of friends you have on Facebook. Simply put, if you have friends that show irrespo...

5 % of real estate buyers are Indians in the USA for the year ending March 2013. They are also the second out of the 5 foreign nationals buying houses in USA. The other 4 foreign countries are Canada, China, Mexico and U...

If you’ve watched Sridevi’s—Bollywood actress of the 80s—latest release ‘English Vinglish’ you’ll understand what the plight of being an outcast means – when you’re out-casted by your family. Let’s face it, in India, if...

I read an article in the Wall Street Journal last week and that really got me thinking. Walmart has been having a ball of a time now that it's gained entry in the Indian market. For many US-returns they get a slice-of-US...

Anju Gattani, fiction author, international freelance journalist and former news reporter, has been published world-wide for over 2 decades in leading Asian and US publications. Indian-born, Anju grew up in Hong Kong and...

When Charlie Bit My Finger — the 56-second home video in which a British toddler bites his older brother's finger, to the older boy's dramatically expressed indignation and the younger one's delighted amusement — surpass...

Last week, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) took the unusual step of removing from service a Maharashtra cadre IAS officer, L V Nilesh, who has been on unauthorised leave for over a decade and is now worki...