A Magazine
It's an old trick, and it no longer makes us laugh. On late nights when we're trying to get home to Brooklyn, my friend Benjamin and I have a routine. I try to flag down a cab. He stands several feet ahead. I'm Indian, and usually, a cab stops for me. Benjamin, who is black, runs in behind. Read on

Peela Paiya
Vivek Bald's video, Taxi-vala/Auto-biography is an important milestone for South Asian cab drivers and for all New Yorkers. The 48-minute work reveals the rich voices and treacherous lives of cabbies at a critical time. Read on

Samar
The film, a product of a three-year effort by the California-born filmmaker, is vivid in its portrayal of the drivers' disillusionment and the embittered hopefulness that characterizes the South Asians drivers' community. Read on

India West
The son of an Australian father and a Punjabi mother, Vivek Renjen Bald meets a Pakistani cab driver in a New York cab. He is from Lahore, Bald is excited to find out, because so is Bald's mother. Bald tries to speak in broken Urdu, trying to establish a link. Read on

India Currents
The Emerging Indian American Cinema: New York's Whitney Museurn showcases a slew of new and not-so-new films. Read on