Learning the Twist in New Delhi

Growing Up American in India Instilled in Me a Deep Curiosity About Foreign Lands—Including My Own

I grew up in India from the age of 4 to 14. Every two years, my family traveled back to the States on “home leave.” Via Europe or through Hong Kong and Japan, we’d head across the oceans to visit our cousins in New York and our grandparents in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Curious relatives and friends back home would ask: Do you speak Hindu? (The language is Hindi.) Do you know snake charmers? (No, but we see many on the streets, and they perform at birthday parties along with other …

by Lee Woodman | December 9, 2014

Does America Have the World’s Worst Movie Theaters?

A Mexican Company Is Building Luxury Cineplexes in India. If We're Lucky, They Might Change Movie-Going for All of Us in the Process.

by Andrés Martinez | April 21, 2014

Improbable though it sounds, many people in India looking to splurge on a night out at a luxury movie theater entrust their rupees to a Mexican theater operator: Cinépolis.

“When we …

Why Does India’s Supreme Court Want Me Back in the Closet?

After Four Years of Sexual Freedom, It’s Once Again a Crime to Be Gay in India

by Minal Hajratwala | February 4, 2014

Last Tuesday, India’s Supreme Court reinstated a law that has turned me, along with millions of other Indians, into a sexual criminal.

Four years ago, a lower court decision struck down …

Celebrating July 4 in Bangalore With, Of Course, Tex-Mex

We Expats Go Far From Home But Somehow Stay American

by Elizabeth Bowden-David | July 3, 2013

As Americans gear up for Independence Day celebrations this year, I’ll be marking the holiday overseas for the 17th time. I’m a permanent expat, having lived in a number of …

Indian Cricket Fans, Prepare To Get Crushed

Football Has Come To the Subcontinent. And People Like It.

by Evan Rosenfeld | February 12, 2013

Now that the Super Bowl has come and gone, we can all now turn our attention to India’s Elite Football League (EFLI). That’s right: Football, the most quintessential of American …

I, Too, View Indian Women As Second-Class

My Friends and I In Mumbai Like To Think We’re Enlightened, But No One Can Fully Escape the Prejudices of Society

by Revti Gupta | January 8, 2013

On New Year’s Eve in Mumbai I stopped on my way to a friend’s house to pick up pastries for the host. My car was parked 20 feet away from …

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