Reviews & Previews
Bombay Rockers
The Scandinavian duo known as Bombay Rockers began when Singer Naf (Navtej Singh Rehal) met producer-team WCA (Thomas Sardorf and Janus Barnewitz). Their original collaboration explored western instrumentation and hip hop grooves, set as a backdrop to Naf’s Hindi and Punjabi vocals.
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Inner Sanctum
I Want Your Sex
Imagine yourself in a blue room. It’s cool, dark, awash in a dim, ocean blue light and devoid of any sounds or voices. That is, except for the faint echo of men and women flirting, teasing, moaning and then screaming. You suddenly feel very exposed in a public space and you actually like it. Welcome to the Museum of Sex, NYC.
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Economy & Politics
Invitation to a Beheading
On May 27th, Australian native Schapelle Corby was sentenced to 20 years in an Indonesian prison for smuggling 9 pounds of marijuana into Bali. The relations between Australia and Indonesia have always been tenuous; now Corby has become an emblem through which their animosity is finally able to play itself out.
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Art & Culture
Ibrahim Quraishi Presents INTOX
Ibrahim Quraishi, conceptual artist and director extraordinaire, is launching his non-profit INTOX in New York on June 20th. Quraishi has been focusing on contemporary issues of migration and alienation, re-interpretation of womens' roles in South Asian folktales and the facets of Islam today.
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Economy & Politics
Non, Non, Non!
The crushing defeat of the EU Constitution by French voters has shaken up Europe's faith in the EU. After all, as one of the six founding members of the European Union, what could have driven France to belligerently reject the EU Constitution at this juncture? EGO Editor Ayesha K. examines France's angst-riddled Non!
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Inner Sanctum
Every Sperm is Sacred
Before late-night Cinemax and internet porn, Asian men learned how to have sex—good sex—through manuals. These were the “pillow books” of Taoist China. Want to have a lifetime of mind-blowing sex just using your breath? The key can be found in books, some of which are over two thousand years old.
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Bollywood
Bindiewood
The nature of Bindiewood: some musicals, some crossovers, but truth within the fantasy of film. It's a perfect combination, and if it's handled correctly, the universal themes of these films will speak to us all -- from villagers in rural India to the urban cab drivers of Manhattan...and everyone in between.
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Art & Culture
Suroosh Alvi
Suroosh Alvi, owner of VICE Magazine, has built a multi-media empire out of a free drug culture magazine in Toronto. VICE may be a sensitive, politically correct person’s worst nightmare, but for many young hipsters from America to Japan to Australia, it is the ultimate source of an indefinable sense of “cool”.
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Bollywood
The Legend of Sunil Dutt
Sunil Dutt personified the kind of Bollywood star who handled his celebrity with immense grace, and who rose above his stardom to embrace his country and his ideals. Sunil Dutt was soft spoken, amicable and approachable, and went on to become an icon whose name became synonymous with movies, India, humanity and secularism.
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