Sometimes you read a book or watch a movie at a point in your life when you’re just not in the right mood for it, or when it’s just the wrong time for you, and[…]
Meet the cast of Growing Up Smith
In various cities around the U.S. you have a chance to meet cast members from the utterly charming Growing Up Smith today and the next few days:
Growing Up Smith
As if it’s not tough enough being a tween – dealing with school, hostile or indifferent classmates, parents and your own hormonal surges and shifts – Smith Bhatnagar is also living between his Indian-influenced home[…]
“Lion” makes history with Academy Award nominations
Lion was nominated for six Academy Awards this week by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the following categories: Best Motion Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Dev Patel, Best Supporting Actress for[…]
Lion
In 1986, in Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, teenager Guddu and his five-year-old brother Saroo became separated when out to do some manual labor. The boys were from a poor, single-parent family, where mother Kamla would go[…]
Jai Ho in the General Assembly: AR Rahman at the UN
When I first got a text weeks ago from the event organizer hinting there was something big happening in New York on August 15 with AR Rahman, I said “Oh, India Day parade?” and was[…]