Ideas Without Boundaries.
Jagjit Singh is a master musician, but what came through in the sold out concert hosted by Mark Premji and Klub Klassic, was how much of a sport he is. It was heart breaking to see him cough and sneeze incessantly and yet with the Read More …
He was born in 1398 and supposedly lived for 120 years. The legacy of the Bhakti movement, that the illegitimate child left behind along with his poems, and the deep message in each couplet relating to life’s experiences, has made the mystic poet Kabeer Das Read More …
The best thing about the “Heat Concert” starring Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Sushmita Sen, Preity Zinta and Celina Jaitly was the fact that it was hosted by the Raina Foundation for a noble cause. The foundation worked very hard to make it a success Read More …
Designer silk robes, flowing locks, frenzied flocks, people chanting and swaying and prostrating themselves in devotion- the many hues of spirituality come in diverse packages. I’m beginning to lose count of how many gurus and Mas (the divine mothers) I have been invited to interview, Read More …
Ruma Hawkins had promised singer Shreya Ghoshal that she would do a show for her and kept her promise as Ruma and Shaandar entertainment joined hands and brought the show A Tribute to Legends featuring Ghoshal, singer par excellence Parthiv Gohil and Ayub Patel to Read More …
He has never stood second in an exam in his entire life; he is a plastic surgeon par excellence, but walked away from making millions because he felt there was more to life than just the green bucks. He is a self taught sculptor and Read More …
Agatha Christie’s play The Mousetrap is the longest running play in the world spanning five decades in London. It was staged at the Berkmar High School auditorium in Atlanta on October 1st and 2nd by Saakaar, a non profit Theater group, which is gaining great Read More …
She grew up in a railway colony in Ratlam, in India, cocooned in an idyllic, insulated world, attending a European Anglo Indian Railways school. A trip to Bombay for higher studies, introduced her to her first Indian communist, a Hindu girl of 12, whose father Read More …
Ismat Chugtai was born in 1915 in pre-partition India and became a feminist when the Muslim community did not know what feminism meant. The youngest of nine children and an unwelcome one because she was a girl, Ismat reportedly began writing on scraps of papers Read More …
I’m single because I was born that way” – Mae West Perhaps nothing consumes the South Asian community more than the obsession with marriage. Internet dating services, matrimonial ads in community publications, masala cruises, the ever thriving aunty network, all are geared with one aim Read More …
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