Indian American community life in Naperville, Aurora and the western suburbs of Chicago: temples, schools, local politics, festivals and families.
116 articles
A Seinfeld bit at the Chicago Theatre, and the Indian American families who learned Halloween from their children, then took it to Bangalore.
By Suchitra Sharma||5 min read
After a foiled shooting at the Aurora Balaji temple and another season of jewellery burglaries, a look at how the Irish, Chinese, Italian, Japanese and Jewish communities learned to organize, what Sikh Americans have already built, and what the wider Indian American community can borrow.
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SAGA reviews Townhouse Books & Café in St. Charles: an indie bookstore in an 1853 Victorian house on the Fox River — plus sandwiches and salads.
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ParentsMatterToo: free 6-week Parent Conversation Circles in Naperville starting April 4 — trained facilitators, practical strategies for resilient kids.
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Why a friend's Facebook update stays with you longer than a hundred scholarly articles — a Naperville writer on raw, unedited emotion and the case for
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In some states, school is yet to start but in Midwest the schools have begun. It’s not easy for the kids and the families to switch from the summer mode to…
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Naperville's Happy Feet Walker's Club helps members build daily walking habits — and friendships — with group walks and new routes. Here's how to join.
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WotNow, the local Naperville social-calendar app, was hiring summer interns for 2015 — info desks at Naperville libraries, five hours a week minimum.
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On June 18, 2015, the Eye on India festival hosted actor Anupam Kher in conversation with journalist Victoria Lautman at Film Row Cinema in Chicago.
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PASHA Orthodontics in Naperville invited high school seniors to apply for its 2015 college scholarship — $450, $350, and $250 awards for patients entering
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In 2015, Chicago-area theater group Ekjut staged Yoni ki Baat at Naperville's North Central College — a look back at this community theater notice.
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Anurag Kashyap's Bombay Velvet dazzles with jazz, art deco and grandeur, but the storytelling falls flat. Our 2015 review of the Ranbir Kapoor starrer.
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Niketa Jhaveri, a Naperville mom and UX designer, turned her five-year-old's endless questions into Brave Champs, an educational board game.
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Arup Raha reviews Shoojit Sircar's Piku — a father-daughter road trip built on great performances by Amitabh Bachchan, Deepika Padukone, and Irrfan.
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WotNow — a social local calendar app built by Naperville residents Deepa Salem, Anand Sivaraman, and Vidhya Iyer — launched in 2015.
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A March 2015 Naperville crash at 75th Street and Modaff Road injured a bicyclist — a reminder to share the road as riding season returns.
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Arup Raha's Bolly Volley column reviews PK and picks the Top 10 Bollywood films of 2014 — from Queen and Haider to Dedh Ishqiya and Filmistaan.
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Guest critic Lopamudra Banerjee Dhar on Vishal Bhardwaj's Haider — Hamlet in Kashmir, the Army portrayal, and why revenge can't buy freedom.
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A 2014 Diwali dance party at Saffron Restaurant in Westmont, IL — a slice of Chicago-area desi community life, from the TI archives.
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From the 2014 Naperville Diary: Ribfest, the Ale Fest, municipal band concerts, and more — a snapshot of one summer in the western suburbs of Chicago.
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