Art & Culture
Art & Commerce
Art and Commerce, one of the most powerful international photography agencies known for photographers such as Stevem Miesel, launched an unprecedented annual exhibition of young talent. EGO columnist Michael Delfin reviews the 2005 Art & Commerce Festival of Emerging Photographers.
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Art & Culture
Turk Stops
Since the days of Genghis Khan almost a millennium ago, Turkic peoples have wandered, rode horse-back and conquered their way westward towards Europe. Few commentators have understood Turkey outside this Euro-centric prism, focusing on breast-beating protests at every setback in the Europeanization process.
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Bollywood
My Wife’s Murder
Shanti Wesley reviews this simple but unconventional film starring Anil Kapoor; how often does a Hindi movie peer behind the happily ever after final curtain of romance to explore a slowly disintegrating marriage? The movie succeeds in examining an ordinary man whisked away by very non-ordinary circumstances.
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Art & Culture
Mixed by Deep Dish
During the past decade, Ali “Dubfire” Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi (aka Deep Dish) have morphed from popular Washington DC area DJs to flat-out rock royalty. They have become legends on international dance floors and Billboard charts alike, due to their sweeping style of house, trance and pop-rock confections.
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Economy & Politics
An Evening with Gino Strada
Dr. Gino Strada is the founder of Emergency, a medical outreach organization devoted to the rehabilitation of children injured by land mines and antipersonnel weapons. "Every year war takes or seriously affects the life of millions of women, children, and unarmed men worldwide".
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EGOiste
Qasim Virjee
From Canada to Kenya to New York, Qasim Virjee has come a long way to arrive at our EGOiste status! Just the right kind of cool, he personifies the kind of desi that is worldly, sensitive and avant-garde. Qasim is also the publisher and founder of another nifty South Asian publication called Indian Electronica (hey, even we read it!).
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Inner Sanctum
My First Time: With Ms. Fox
A young man's recollection of the pleasures of mastrubating to the delectable image of the sultry Samantha Fox.
“I am doing what God wants me to do. My prayer each night is: Let me go my way and make people happy.”
– Samantha Fox
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Bollywood
Salaam Namaste
Aditya Chopra's new film with Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta is a poor copy of Nine Months set in Melbourne, Australia. Apart from a few bold moves made by an Indian girl living life on her own terms ostensibly by making some selfish choices, the movie brings little new to the genre of crossover films.
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