At the Bride and Prejudice premiere in New York, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein came out to introduce Gurinder Chadha. He sounded humble in front of the part desi, part industry audience, nothing like the enfant terrible of movie industry lore. Weinstein’s made a large bet both on desis personally and on desi culture becoming part […]

Padma shares Indo-style with her fellow carpetwalkers. Click to enlarge.

Easy Exotic wasn’t just Padma Lakshmi’s first book title, it was also a mating call for brown women in America. The cover had her posing in a little black dress with a come-hither look next to a virtual banana tree, and one of its taglines mentioned her modeling past. With such breathless double-entendre Orientalism under […]