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IMMIGRATION IS INEVITABLE. WHEN WILL THE WEST LEARN THAT IT PROMISES SALVATION-NOT DESTRUCTION? ON OCT. 1, 1977, NY PARENTS, MY TWO SISTERS, AND I BOARDED A LUFTHANSA PLANE in the [...]

Shah Rukh Khan is God. The woman in the bright red sari knows he is. As the film star and his entourage pull into the driveway of a five-star hotel [...]

Bombay, the commercial city in India, is described with reference to the rising population and the pollution by comparing it with Singapore. While the most populated city in Europe, Berlin has a population of 1,130 people per square, Bombay showed a record of 17,550 people per square as per to the 1990 census.

The new style shows off at India's commercial capital. Comment on the culture of the films, fantasy and fashion and screen tests the city's greatest beauties and top movie stars is presented.

THE HILLS AND VALLEYS of Kashmir are filled, in legend, with the shrieks of elephants falling from high mountains. In the early sixth century, the Hun invader Mihiragula, upon hearing [...]

Eibrahim rented the back room in the Cafe du Nord, where he had set up four tables and to which he brought, through a small window in the cramped kitchen, [...]

The political, social and economic aspects of Bombay, India, are described. Immense gaps between the city's wealth and poverty, where office space is the most expensive in the world while 40% of the houses do not have safe drinking water, are explored. Religious and social conflict have become common. Policies of the Shiv Sena party, in charge of the city since 1995, are discussed.

The yellow pages as you know them are about to go high-tech. Will interactive, on-line telephone 'books' stack up against their big, yellow predecessors? Electronic products that connect buyers with […]

Efforts to preserve India's Taj Mahal are being made. The country's Supreme Court ordered the closure and relocation of nearby factories because of the air pollutants they emit, causing the mausoleum's corrosion. However, the jobs at stake sparked protests from the labor sector.

As Internet use soars, telcos are milking the pipe, trying to retain their telecommunications edge as part of the new on-line community. Science historian Thomas Kuhn coined the notion of […]

The gospel of networking is starting to expand into undeveloped lands. But profits--and perils--abound as LAN technology is smuggled into new areas of the world. What does Joe Marengi, Novell's […]

Walt Whitman must have been the first American to have seen the possibilities for networking in India. He wrote, in his 1871 poem "Passage to India," these visionary lines: "Lo, […]

Probably the most successful example of a government-funded network is the NSFnet, funded by the National Science Foundation, which led directly to the creation of the Internet. According to Guy […]

WITH INTELLIGENT HIGHWAYS, THE ELECTRONIC SUPERHIGHWAY WON'T BE JUST A METAPHOR. IT WILL BE A WAY TO REDUCE TRAFFIC PROBLEMS. Ah, the thrill of the open road. Driving down the […]

RAILROADS CLIMB ALL ABOARD THE TECHNOLOGY TRAIN TO INCREASE ACCURACY IN LOCATING RAILCARS AND TESTING EQUIPMENT. Think of a railroad, and you probably don't think of computers. You're more likely […]

NATIONAL HOLOCAUST MUSEUM BUILDS AN INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA LAN TO PRESERVE MEMORY. The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., is dedicated to presenting the history of the persecution and murder […]

You may never have heard of Fluor Daniel, but it's big. In fact, it's the biggest engineering construction company in the world. The company has more than 50 offices worldwide […]

The ABC Radio Network brings hit programs such as "American Top 40," "Paul Harvey," "American Country Countdown," and "ABC News" to more than 3,000 radio stations across America. To do […]

If you to go France for any length of time, you'll notice that very few people use the yellow pages for anything. And, if you're in a hotel in Paris […]

The article discusses a superiority complex, impulse control, and insecurity in America as of February 2014, focusing on a review of the book "The Triple Package: How Three Unlikely Traits Explain the Rise and Fall of Cultural Groups in America" by Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld. According to the article, Chua and Rubenfeld claim that groups such as Asians, Mormons, and Iranians are superior in terms of achieving success in America. Madison Grant's book "The Passing of the Great Race" is examined.

BOMBAY STORIES By Saadat Hasan Manto Translated by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad 288 pp. Vintage International. Paper. $16. Saadat Hasan Manto has a good claim to be considered the [...]

The article focuses on Raj Rajaratnam, hedge fund manager of the Galleon Group, who was accused and convicted of insider trading. Topics include his family background in Sri Lanka, the start of his Galleon hedge fund company in 1997, and the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) investigation over the insider-trading scandal. The article also discusses his cooperation and thoughts about a plea bargain with the U.S. justice system and his prison sentence.

In this article the author discusses changes in the immigrant experience in the United States. Immigrants in the 21st century are contrasted with those of the 19th century. The author explores issues surrounding assimilation and how social networks of individuals of the same nationality inhibit the need for assimilation. A Mexican enclave in Brooklyn, New York is examined in detail.

I met Caroline one Friday evening in the cafeteria of the upscale Manhattan supermarket where she had just started working. She was a twenty-something African immigrant without papers; we'd recently [...]

Byline: Mehta is the author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found. Suketu Mehta eyes the Big Apple and confirms that immigration works. The writer E.B. White famously defined, in [...]

Byline: Jon Bowermaster, Jason Harper, Sandra Hart, Ian Keown, Suketu Mehta, Bob Payne, and Gully Wells Getting here involves some puddle-jumping. International flights connect from the 32-island nation's neighborsBarbados, Grenada, [...]

It was the night of this year's New York primary, and when a billionaire like Mayor Michael Bloomberg holds a party to celebrate his candidacy, it's no small affair. The [...]

Koose Muniswamy Veerappan was a bandit in the forests of South India with the world's most dangerous facial hair. His popularity as a poacher and sandalwood smuggler rested on the [...]

Why do I love Bollywood movies? To an Indian, that's like asking why we love our mothers; we don't have a choice. We were born of them. Though Hindu gods [...]

The building at 59-21 Calloway Street in Corona, Queens, is grandly named the Calloway Chateau, but it is really the 21st-century version of Ludlow Street, the first stop off the [...]

The article discusses the contributions that immigrants have made in America as of 2019, and it mentions the expectation that legal and undocumented immigrants with contribute half a trillion dollars to the U.S. Social Security trust fund between 2013 and 2038. It states that one quarter of all new businesses in America are started by immigrants, and it states that immigrants are needed in the U.S. due to population changes and retirements of older workers. U.S. immigration policy is assessed.

ONE NIGHT LAST SUMMER, I made a chile-spiked chili for my family: my parents, my sons, my partner, and her parents. We are all Indian, but while some of us [...]

From "Mumbai," by Suketu Mehta, in the Spring issue issue of Granta, a special issue devoted to India. Mehta, who grew up in Bombay, now lives in New York City. […]