Fashion & Beauty
Style Arbiter Roopal Patel
Roopal Patel is as en Vogue as it gets. Her job as the Fashion Director of women’s wear at NYC’s Bergdof Goodman qualifies her as a de facto style arbiter. A front row regular at Fashion Week in New York, Milan, and Paris, she works with top designers and fashion editors to choose which styles are to become the next high-fashion trends.
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Art & Culture
Paulo Coelho's Magic
In an interview with Kadri Kousaar, Paulo Coelho exhibits an almost mystical charisma. The world renowned author has sold millions of books, yet he is equally happy working as a waiter in a Polish restaurant, helping Brazilian street children, or visiting the most underground night clubs in Paris.
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Art & Culture
Desilicious
Set the identity politics aside, please. Desilicious is a monthly phenomenon featuring the frenetic gyrations and contortions of the dark and the beautiful. Orientation (sexual, political, vertical) be damned! In a city long past “firsts”, Desilicious is New York’s first social space for queer desis to party amongst their own.
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Art & Culture
Suketu Mehta
Bombay "is the city that has a tight claim on my heart, a beautiful city by the sea, an island-state of hope in a very old country. I went back to look for that city with a simple question: Can you go home again?" professes Suketu Mehta in his sprawling, critically celebrated, over-500 page opus, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found.
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Art & Culture
M.I.A.
Maya Arular aka M.I.A. is destroying the confines of popular music. In its place, the 28 year old Sri Lankan-born misfit has left international audiences agape with her first album Arular, released this past February. M.I.A. sits down to set the record straight on revolution, her ties to the Tamil Tigers, and the real message behind the lyrics.
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Reviews & Previews
Crobar
Every so often a nightclub is borne into a city, and things are never quite the same. It’s almost an unwritten and ubiquitous rule of nocturnal urban sociology. However, when that city happens to be New York, people sit up and pay attention, and when that nightclub happens to be Crobar, people jump up and notice.
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Reviews & Previews
Fatal Love
It is engaging see a culture that is known and familiar (by heritage, or place of birth) to artists, re-interpreted, contended with, and assimilated into new contexts. Nostalgia and the immigrant experience together become the basis for their art, as shown in the exhibition, “Fatal Love - South Asian American Art Now.”
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Architecture & Design
Toyo Ito
Architect Toyo Ito is Japan's poster child for experimentation and innovation in urban landscapes. A proponent of the "simulated" city, one in which the sounds of virtual and physical worlds live in melodious harmony, Ito is the quintessential futurist architect. His buildings, particularly in Tokyo, have captured the world's imagination.
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Science & Technology
Viagra & Co.
Drugs for fanning the flames of sexual desire, particularly if the cause for despair is physical, have captured both the imagination and the pockets of consumers. Viagra and Cialis are just two of the drugs large pharmaceutical companies are marketing everywhere from television to subway posters.
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Economy & Politics
Malcolm X
Malcolm X, considered by many to be one of the most influential personalities in African-American history, was assasinated in New York twenty years ago. His political legacy is mixed: he is admired for his courage and ability to give the black community a sense of self, yet also disliked for his radicalism.
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Science & Technology
Orkut
Orkut.com, a subsidiary of Google, is the new private club with hundreds of thousands of members, from Bombay to Rio to New York to Karachi. An online community that bonds over common interests and a desire to make friends, there has been at least one instance where it has also resulted in love and marriage.
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