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Be cool and stay cool in Indian summers - Desi styleIndia continues to wear Western suits as workwear, a colonial imposition. European traders brought these clothes, but local cotton garments...
Zohran Mamdani thanks 'aunties' in New York speech, highlights South Asian family cultureMore Americans may now realise just how widely, even recklessly, the words aunt/ aunty are used in the subcontinent, going way beyond the n...
A season of desi poll-itical chicJudging from the photographs of polls for Lok Sabha and state assemblies that have been held in summer months over the past seven decades, ...
When a desi wedding shut down the Broadway in New YorkThe video of the wedding procession has now gone viral on social media. In the video, 'The Baraat' can be seen celebrating and dancing to B...
Is Long Hair the New Alpha Mane?The pandemic acted as a great leveller in many respects — including hairstyles. With no access to salons, CEOs, politicians, rock stars and...
View: The Indian intellygentsia has finally found US politics worth followingWhile Barack Obama’s swearing-in may have caught the interested Indian’s imagination in 2009 simply because Indians finally wanted to hitch...
Namaste Trump: PM Modi welcomes US President with a hug, Twitter explodes with memes; Amul comes up with topical artTwitterati took light-hearted jibes at the Indian PM and the US President.
Bengal Bypolls: We are hitting TMC goons the way they hurt us, says West Bengal BJP chiefWest Bengal BJP chief said that Mamata's 'Didi Ke Bolo' program is an eyewash. He further added that neither Bengal CM's MLAs nor she is ac...
Other tongues still add spice to englishA few of them seem to have immediate relevance to Indian users of English, though our own regional languages also regularly add masala to a...
Khadi has a new champion in young startup DesiTudeIt’s not the easiest material to procure in terms of quantity and time, and harder to work with than most other materials. Hence DesiTude f...
How Rahul Gandhi projects himself as a desi on TwitterRahul now has killer comebacks. He knows how to connect with people — in their own language. His desi avatar is a big hit on Twitter.
Is middle-class India tweeting more than eating?In a crowded food market, how do brands make themselves relevant?
ET Defence Bulletin: Stories you should not miss (January 5, 2017)This is a list of the top defence stories of today.
With US election day round the corner, desi techies in Silicon Valley talk politicsFreedom and tolerance are vital values in Silicon Valley so it doesn't take a genius to figure which way the wind’s blowing in the global s...
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal’s ID test: Can Indian-Americans go all American?In a social context we emphasize language, religion and even caste; in the civic and professional sphere we prefer our Indianness.
This native of the Americas has blended remarkably with all things IndianThe soft power potential of omnipresent potato so cleverly highlighted should be a no-brainer for hard-boiled statesmen who may want to cur...
- Twitter hails Shashi Tharoor for 6 lakh milestone
The high-profile minister has won hearts of half-million followers in the virtual world and many more outside.
- Twitterati hails 'witty' Tharoor
Long before the prime minister was forced to point out to his humourless colleagues that Shashi Tharoor’s tweet on holy cows and cattle cla...
- Spirited performance
Eastern and western perceptions on alcohol are different.
- Internet politics: Making it to VIP list
Obama's elite email list can be compared in India only to Rahul Gandhi's cellphone and email address.