• A 2-blowhards account of the "The Kumars" - Good time ethnic humour. Now we have an Indian version of the Kumars, called "Batliwalla House No 43" on India's famous Sony channel, the language used for fun and parody is Hindi to suit the local desi's .
• Tejaswini Niranjana, from the CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY, Bangalore says research in the Caribbean made her rethink many things about questions of culture and identity in India.
• The literary page of the Sunday Hindu, had a lot for the fancy intellect of the Indian - The Wonder that was India, A.L. Basham. On this same link, if you scroll down, there is a review of a new book - Overseas Indians: The Global Family by Shubha Singh.