Mira Jacob is the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing, but it's her most recent work, an astonishing graphic memoir called Good Talk, that we're resharing with you this week in this "rewind" episode...
This is the first book describing the roles of Western Jews in South Asian political affairs, medicine, painting, architecture and religion. A time-line summarises their contributions and those of the Indian Jews to the Indian subcontinent. Many of these...
Tertullian, who attempted to draw a false distinction between Greek philosophy and Jewish faith. However, Hazony's objections are not limited to the Father of the Latin Church. The author also criticizes German research universities and their teachers for jointly...
Shobha ("Fori") Nehru was an aristocratic Indian lady who married BK Nehru, a former Indian ambassador to the United States and the nephew of India's first prime leader Jawaharlal Nehru. She was born and raised a Hungarian Jew, despite...
According to the Times of India, an Israeli-British writer obtained a deportation order from a municipal court in Kochi, India, and aims to challenge the matter to India's Supreme Court. Susan Nathan, 62, was born in England and moved to...
Shobha "Fori" Nehru was an Indian woman who was married to BK Nehru, who was the Indian ambassador to the United States and the nephew of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. While it is clear that she is...
In Meera Mehadevan's Shulamith, a recent Sakti novel, the dominant Hindu culture is shown to have an effect on Indian Jewish women. Shulamith, the main character in the book, has a "sense of dual fidelity" between her love for...
The Society for Social Regeneration & Equity (SSRE), a group that wants to break down stereotypes about religious minorities, honored Sheela Rohekar, the only Jewish novelist writing in Hindi, on Friday, Jan. 3, 2014. She was given an award...
Hindu nationalists in India and the Israeli right share a surprising kinship. “Prime Minister Modi, we have been waiting for you for a long time, over 70 years,” Binyamin Netanyahu said in welcoming Narendra Modi to Israel while 2017....
The twin pulls of India and Israel were the focus of a session including Jewish Indian writing. During the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) 2018 at Diggi Palace, Esther David (left), author of Shalom (an Indian Jewish Fiction), speaks with A...