http://www.indusdiary.com Two Indian Reporters And Their Double Take On America Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:30:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en First there was the announcement that Nick Rathod is joining the Obama-Biden Transition Project as Director of Inter-Governmental Affairs. That's great news in itself. Rathod was one of the founders of South Asians for Obama or SAFO, a group that was instrumental in mobilising the community in turning out for ... http://www.indusdiary.com/?p=257 Everyone knows about Nicholas Burns, the former Under Secretary of State in the US State Department, who was the point man for the Bush Administration when it came to working out the modalities involved in getting the India-US civilian nuclear deal through. Burns retired from the State Department on February ... http://www.indusdiary.com/?p=254 San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris will run for the Attorney General of California in 2010. She's probably THE Indian-American politician to watch out for in the future because of her proximity to President-elect Barack Obama. Harris, like Obama, comes from a multicultural background - with an African-American father and ... http://www.indusdiary.com/?p=251 Apparently, US President-elect Barack Obama was unable to reach India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the phone over the weekend because the latter was traveling. This caused a fair amount of consternation on India over this perceived slight because Obama had already spoken to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. The ... http://www.indusdiary.com/?p=247 Sooni Taraporevala is obviously nervous. Funnily enough, she's nervous about a film. Now, Taraporevala is a veteran when it comes to the film industry - she has written the screenplay for movies like Salaam Bombay and The Namesake. However, what she has not done is direct a film. And now ... http://www.indusdiary.com/?p=243 There's been plenty of criticism of Sonal Shah's appointment to the Obama transition team, on the grounds that she had links with the Vishwa Hindu Parishad of America and her family is friendly with Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Here's a report: Sonal Shah responded to the attacks thus: The following is ... http://www.indusdiary.com/?p=240 Director Deepa Mehta's latest film is Heaven on Earth. The movie was shot in the suburbs of Toronto, where Mehta makes her home. Heaven on Earth was the opening night film at the Indo-American Arts Council film festival in New York. Just before the film was screened, the director spoke ... http://www.indusdiary.com/?p=234 Parag Saxena, the founder of Vedanta Capital, was a Chicago's Grant Park as Barack Obama gave his historic speech after winning the 2008 US Presidential election. Saxena, who has been with the Obama campaign, believes the talk about outsourcing is "partly rhetoric". More in this interview: http://www.indusdiary.com/?p=230 Author Salman Rushdie is a British citizen, living in New York. Director Deepa Mehta is based in Canada. Neither of them voted in the US Presidential elections, but both were certainly buoyed by Barack Obama's win: http://www.indusdiary.com/?p=226 Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie's second novel (after Grimus) has won all sorts of awards - a Booker, a Booker of Booker, a Best of the Bookers...It has even been adapted for the stage by the Royal Shakespeare Company. But what was missing was a film version of the book. In ... http://www.indusdiary.com/?p=218