• Writer Minal Hajratwala -- who will be featured recommending good
books about 'family' in our upcoming Books Section Feature "Top Three"
in Issue 17  -- has a great blog post [1]
looking at issues in the film and how they hold up to real issues in
South Asia, and organizations that relate to them. [This reminds me,
BTW, to point you to OG Mr. Hyphen Robin Sukhadia's blog [2] about his own trip to India where he is spreading music education -- thanks to Project Ahimsa [3] -- to 'slum' kids and orphans in Ahmedabad and Kolkata.]

• Feministing blogger Samhita weighs in [4] on the non-agency of Latika's character and the complexity of our immigrant parents' reacting negatively to the film's subject matter.

• The day before the Oscars there was this post arguing the pros and cons of the movie, in terms of 'poverty porn' -- featuring (my auntie) novelist Chitra Divakaruni, a media studies professor and a documentary filmmaker -- on the NY Times Debate Blog [5].