Before the movie was the printed word.   Jhumpa Lahiri‘s first novel, The Namesake, followed her Pulitzer Prize award-winning book of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies.   Houghton Mifflin has a nifty collection of resources related to Jhumpa and The Namesake, here. The author did  a round of interviews in New York last week […]

Pratibha Parmar, the director and producer of Nina’s Heavenly Delights, is just back from Hong Kong, where her film was selected to close  this year’s  Hong Kong Lesbian  & Gay Film Festival.   Less than a month ago, it was screened at the sixth Indo-American Arts Council’s Film Festival.   The movie will be released […]

Tejaswini Ganti, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University and author of Bollywood, A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema, was one of the academics presenting a paper at the  conference hosted by NYU earlier this year.   The  subject of the conference was  The Social  and Material Life of Indian Cinema, and it  was […]

I thought it could be interesting to add an occasional piece that wasn’t a movie review. Lisa Tsering is a reporter for the California-based  paper India West.   I’ve known her as a fellow  Hindi movie and Govinda fan for a couple of years now, but I was curious to  learn how she came to […]