I recently complained about an Indian restaurant review I had read in the San Francisco Chronicle –I had found it uncreative and even insensitive.*
Entitled, Dosa grows up – second restaurant is bigger, bolder, the article began like this (pay attention to the words that are in bold):
Walking into the new Dosa feels like entering an [...]
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Indian restaurant reviews
Posted in Food, Orientalism, We All Live Downstream on 20 February 2009 | 1 Comment »
California white women + India
Posted in Fetishisms and Imaginaries, Orientalism, Race, Tourism, We All Live Downstream on 5 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
come together in an Incredible !ndia campaign!
I’ve blogged briefly about Incredible !ndia before.
In light of recent discussions on this and my other blog, I found an ad that appeared in last month’s Economist to be very timely:
The caption reads:
“Country of Birth *sideways heart* USA
Motherland *sideways heart* India
Julie Martin was born near Hollywood in L.A. [...]
Torchbearer indeed
Posted in Fetishisms and Imaginaries, Orientalism, Tourism, tagged Incredible !ndia on 10 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Kerala State Council recently called Kerala as the “torchbearer” to the Incedible !ndia campaign (created to promote tourism in India).
Here is Incredible !ndia’s “Timeless India” clip — Kerala is featured in the first 3 minutes:
The script describing Kerala ends with the following quote: “Then as now, India was a place [...]
