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 off to work in construction and the older children would have to look after the younger ones. Tiny Saroo fell […]
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Malala Lighting the Candle of Knowledge
It was almost three years ago to the day (October 9, 2012) that teenagers Malala Yousafzai, Shazia Ramzan and Kainat Riaz were shot by the Taliban while they sat in their school bus in the Swat Valley. Those men targeted Malala because she was, already, at her young age, an outspoken champion of girls’ rights […]
Don’t miss Meet the Patels
For two years, actor and comedian Ravi Patel (Scrubs, Transformers, and now, Grandfathered with John Stamos) had a Secret White Girlfriend named Audrey. The concept of SWG (or SWB) may be familiar to people who’ve been in “mixed” or multicultural relationships: one person of the pair is too scared or not committed enough to dare […]
Sarita Choudhury interview
Sarita Choudhury’s latest film role is that of Jasleen in Learning to Drive, the bride-to-be who flies from India to marry a man she’s never met before, Darwan (Sir Ben Kingsley). Q: How did you approach this character? Sarita Choudhury: It’s odd to play someone who doesn’t speak, because it would almost be easier […]
Learning to Drive
Isabel Coixet’s Learning to Drive begins with one of the most embarrassing and painful types of break-ups a person might have to live through in this crowded city of New York: in the cramped back seat of a taxi, with the silent driver bearing witness from the other side of the partition. This is how […]
raj Amit Kumar interview
This is a recent interview I did with the director raj Amit Kumar, whose film Unfreedom has been banned in India. The film opened yesterday in the U.S., in New York and Los Angeles. It has also been released on iTunes. As an artist, as a creative person, and knowing how volatile things can unexpectedly get […]