Nicknamed ‘Space City’, ‘Bayou City’, ‘Clutch City’ and ‘H-Town’, Houston is a diverse city with a large and growing international community. The metropolitan area is home to an estimated 1.1 million (21.4 percent) residents who were born outside the United States, with nearly two-thirds of the area's foreign-born population from south of the United States–Mexico border. Additionally, more than one in five foreign-born residents is from Asia. The city is home to the nation’s third largest concentration of consular offices, representing 86 countries. Houston has some of the largest Indian and Pakistani communities in the United States Asian Americans making up 5.3% of the city’s population. Nearly 65,000 Asian Indians call Houston home and add to the diversity and multicultural experience of the great city. It is obvious that such diversity would result in some fantabulous culinary haunts in Houston such as the Indian Grill, Ashoka, the Taj Mahal or Mayuri India Restaurant.
Masala from Patel Bros; a golden bracelet from Karat 22 Jewellers, a new latest from Sari Sapne and Indian sweets from Raja Sweets – all is available at Croft Hill which is the Little India of Houston.
Other forms of entertainment would take you to one of the four movie theatre halls in Houston like ‘Bombay Movies’, ‘Funplex’ or ‘West Belfort 5’.
However, there is nothing like unwinding in front of your own television set in your own house, after a hard days’ work and getting the best of entertainment possible. Being a part of one of the world’s most diversified and colorful cultures, you would certainly want to keep up with the hep and happening back in India and that is exactly the reason for which DISH Network has come up with its amazingly affordable and excellently combined Dish TV international channels. So be it a latest Bollywood movie or the next episode of ‘Entertainment ke liye kuch bhi karega’ on Sony TV, you will get to see it all in crystal clear pictures along with Dolby digital surround sound. Sun TV a popular south Indian channel gets you shows and movies made in Southern India. Get the very best in Indian entertainment from your satellite TV.