Am very happy today for these two Southern film luminaries as they receive their National Awards for Kanchivaram. So, so well deserved. I just hope now the film will get a new breath of life and make it to more screens than just on the festival circuit (where we were fortunate enough to see […]
Kailash Kher interview in Khabar
During Kailash Kher’s recent trips into and out of New York over the summer and into the fall, he sat down with me for an interview for Khabar magazine, and talked about about his efforts to reach a wider audience in the US, and also about his two new CDs, Chaandan Mein and Yatra (Nomadic […]
Happy Diwali!
Wishing you and yours all the best!
Abhiwarya on Oprah today
Set your DVRs for 4pm (EST) today…..Oprah’s topic for this show is “The Most Famous People in the World” and two of the guests are the Hindi fillum biz power couple Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and delish hubby Abhishek Bachchan. The segment was filmed a few weeks ago. In the teaser clip on Oprah’s website, […]
Trio Druk Yul
Here are some images from a concert the Bhutanese trio Druk Yul gave at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York. The performance was preceded by an information-packed gallery tour, examining the thangkas at the museum, and various aspects of Bhutanese art. The Rubin is a wonderful New York treasure, beautifully designed and laid […]
Engendered, Sunday
Folks, if you weren’t there, you missed a gem of a festival this weekend. Try to catch it next year. Here are a few pix from the final evening, a screening of Luck by Chance, followed by a discussion with Zoya and Farhan Akhtar: