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Names in Lights Don't Always Break Barriers

By Ali M Latifi - Nov 29th, 2007 at 1:32 pm EST

This week the screen adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winning author Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake is released on DVD. The novel and film follow Gogol Ganguli, the American born son of Indian immigrants as he struggles with and rejects his Indian culture.

In light of the recent Blog entry by Erica Williams questioning the social and cultural progress of the characters portrayed in American Gangster, I decided to explore similar questions about Kal Penn's first starring role prior to the Namesake in the poorly received "National Lampoon's Van Wilder Rise of the Taj." Read More »

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