By country · UK & Europe
As the US, UK, Canada and Australia raise the drawbridge, Indian students are pivoting to Germany (near-free tuition), Ireland (a 24-month work visa) and France. The numbers, the visas and the trade-offs.
At Paris Haute Couture Week, Rahul Mishra's 'Devi: The Eternal Muse' turned the apsaras of Ajanta and a 12th-century Karnataka stone dancer into couture - with Cardi B and Isha Ambani front row, and a Tanishq diamond first.
In a corner of north-west London, a Gujarati congregation built Europe's first traditional Hindu stone temple — 5,000 tonnes of hand-carved marble and limestone, raised entirely by the community.
Part 1 of Temples of the Diaspora. In the fields of central New Jersey, a hand-carved stone mandir the size of a cathedral announced that the Indian diaspora in America had come of age.
The Edison wedding The Patel wedding I went to in Edison last summer had 1,400 guests, two days of pre-events, a sangeet rehearsed by a choreographer who flies in from Mumbai, and a baraat that got the local police to block off Oak Tree Road for forty minutes. It also had the most Gujarati I […]
