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Religion Archive
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Kumbh-A-Yaa
Religious festival draws millions to river banks. -
Mirza Takes The Mic
Shazia Mirza headlines this week in San Francisco at the Punchline Comedy Club. -
Just Ghee Happy
Pixar's Sanjay Patel publishes new book. -
Celebration of Sikh Film
Celebrating the stories of Sikhs worldwide. -
Chocolate & Spice & Everything Nice
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Big Fuss Over Little Mosque
The show's creator Zarqa Nawaz hopes her children will see the new face of Canada in the show. -
Governor’s Family Grows
Photo credit: Daniel Fuhr, Governor’s Office Utah Governor Jon Huntsman is back from India, where he and wife Mary Kaye finalized their adoption of baby Asha. Asha spent the first year of her life at the Matru Chhaya orphanage in Nadiad (near Ahmadabad in Gujarat) and now joins her six new siblings in Salt Lake City. [...] -
Giant Buddhas Come to New York
Time magazine calls it “A subdued, indeed Zen-like rumination on the things that war spoils.” We call it a worthwhile way to spend a Thursday night. If you’re in the New York area, check out Christian Frei’s documentary The Giant Buddhas, a meditation on the senseless destruction of Afghanistan’s historic Buddha statues. The Asia Society (725 [...] -
Ten Years Since Dr. Salam’s Death: Isn’t It Time for Pakistan to Recognize Him?
I was heartened to read these two editorials in leading Pakistani newspapers this past week: The Daily Times’ “The tragedy of our treatment of Dr. Abdus Salam” and DAWN’s “Lest we foget.” The Daily Times piece opens with these words: Dr Abdus Salam (1926-1996) died ten years ago. He was the first Pakistani to get a [...] -
Celebrate Diversity: Celebrate Christmas
Anyone else amused by this ginormous ad on the op-ed page of today’s New York Times (courtesy of the Catholic League)?