AUTHOR

Arthur J Pais

All stories by Arthur J Pais

'Almost every song seems inspired today'
Rediff.com16 Feb 2022

'I cannot be confined to just one or two kinds of music.'

God, math, and Ramanujan's fascinating story
Rediff.com22 Dec 2016

December 22 marks the 129th birth anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan, the greatest...

The Man Who Lived for the Story
Rediff.com12 Jan 2016

Generations of Indian Americans have had Arthur first note their feats and recount it...

Diwali kitchen: Top Indian-American chefs share their fav recipes
Rediff.com10 Nov 2015

Have you tasted Besan ke ladoo cookies?

'A woman of her times and yet someone belonging to Gandhiji's era'
Rediff.com16 Oct 2015

'Asked which Dilip Kumar films were among her favourites, she said she had seen not a...

My Aunt Smita Patil
Rediff.com14 Oct 2015

Smita Patil would have been 60 on October 17 had fate not cruelly snatched her from us...

'Modi's requirements were simple: The meal had to be pure veg'
Rediff.com12 Oct 2015

'The main meal consisted of one soup, a salad, 2 or 3 vegetarian dishes (including at...

'I wanted the Marigold Hotel films to give very strong sense of India'
Rediff.com19 Mar 2015

Arthur J Pais interviews John Madden, director of the Marigold Hotel films, on the...

Being undocumented in the United States
Rediff.com16 Dec 2014

There are 2.5 lakh undocumented Indians across the United States. While President...

'Would Mira Nair make a Missouri Masala now?'
Rediff.com12 Dec 2014

Civil rights activist Deepa Iyer, former executive director, South Asian Americans...

Indians target of home invasions in New Jersey
Rediff.com3 Dec 2014

Residents anxious after masked gunmen break into 4 desi homes in New Jersey, many...

4 Indians among Rhodes scholars this year
Rediff.com24 Nov 2014

The scholars are awarded for their outstanding scholarly achievements, character,...

Study debunks notion that Asian Americans prefer boys over girls
Rediff.com14 Aug 2014

In analysing census data from 2007-2011, researchers found that the at-birth sex ratios...

I was threatened against running for Congress: Upendra Chivukula
Rediff.com5 Jun 2014

New Jersey state Assemblyman Upendra Chivukula may have triumphed over his opponents in...

'To call the BJP or its leaders 'fascist' is historically untenable'
Rediff.com16 May 2014

'Narendra Modi could be too old to change his personality. On the other hand, his...

Anurag Kashyap: No one takes films seriously in India
Rediff.com6 May 2014

While work on his most ambitious project Bombay Velvet is on, Anurag Kashyap's taut and...

Desis join pro-immigrant rally in US
Rediff.com20 Mar 2014

Rishi Singh, who recently joined a protest meeting against anti-immigrant laws in...

Box Office boost for Oscar-winning movies?
Rediff.com3 Mar 2014

Arthur J Pais analyses Oscar 2014 big wins and losses.

'We alert people in India to be careful about such books'
Rediff.com28 Feb 2014

The court case in India against Wendy Doniger's book The Hindus was in a way initiated...

'Banning books seems more like Taliban culture than Hindu culture'
Rediff.com27 Feb 2014

'How can Hindus protest efforts to ban an edition of the Gita in parts of Russia, and...