City of Roy

Designer Rachel Roy has captured the attention and admiration of Manhattan’s most fashionable. Next up: The world.

Location, Location, Location

Vastu: The 10,000-year-old Vedic art of architecture.

International Man of Design

Acclaimed architect and interior designer Shamir Shah is the king of quiet continuity.

Renaissance Rebel

Neuroscience student-turned-rocker Sonya Balchandani waxes lyrical about identity.

Crafty Hipster Chic

The two brown girls behind the stylish accessories at 2BrownGirls.com.

The Mothership Has Landed

According to recent media reports - Indian Vogue will launch in Fall of 2007! The marriage of Indian fashion & Vogue- it’s enough to make a girl want to master her domain or at the very least master some portion of Daniel Craig’s anatomy. I digress. (But, seriously Daniel I am waiting by the mobile […]

Les Impressions de Mumbai

Artist Florine Asch captures her passage to Mumbai in exquisite watercolors for a travel notebook published by the historic design house of Louis Vuitton.

Get Your SALTAF on This Weekend in DC

NetSapDC in conjunction with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program is sponsoring SALTAF, the 6th annual South Asian Literary and Theater Arts Festival.

This year, for a small entrance fee, you can hobnob with the cognoscenti during the opening night fundraiser and cocktail reception at the Fly Lounge. Here are some tips on how to mingle […]

I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion

Some of you may already know of this exhibition (it opened in September), but for those of you who don’t—check it out! The Rubin Museum of Art in New York City is exhibiting I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion until January 29, 2007. The collection features 100 works of art, in various […]

The Turban Twist

Turbans are symbolic headdress, worn throughout history to convey difference in levels of purity, religiosity, social-status, by men of various racial and socioeconomic persuasion throughout the Middle East and South Asia.
But as Suzy Menkes of IHT so succinctly surmised, “Miuccia Prada has seen the woman of the future—and she is wearing a slipper satin […]