Art & Culture
ABCD: ‘What’s in a Name?’
Sucheta Sachdev delves into the trials and joys of living in two cultures within one society, and decides that ABCD really stands for American Born Cultured Desi. We at EGO wholeheartedly agree, because the American Born Confused Desi version is totally passé!
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Art & Culture
Film or Die!
You need not read any further if you are already familiar with this multi-hyphenated term: ‘multi-racial multi-cultural eco-supershero action figures’. If you haven’t heard of it before, it’s probably because you are not familiar with Shalini Kantayya. EGO interviews this articulate, talented and busy filmmaker.
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Diaspora(s)
French Tuesdays
What began in 2003 with a modest crowd of 40 attendees, the French Tuesdays party is now one of the most sought after events in New York City and host to hottest venues on the market. Veronique Berkeley and Fabrice Calmettes of French Tuesdays give EGO Columnist Krishna Purohit a peek into the intimate workings of a cultural prodigy.
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Diaspora(s)
French Cinema
From Jean-Luc Godard to François Ozon, French cinema is a tour de force of endless soul searching, frank sexuality and lengthy dialogues. In a tête à tête with EGO's Krishna Purohit, Marie Losier, a film aficionado at Alliance Francaise in NYC unravels the complicated world of traditional and contemporary French cinema.
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Urdu & Hindi Poetry
RAQS (Dance)
A contemporary of Faiz and Miraji, Noon Meem Rashid is regarded with them as one of the most influential modern Urdu poets of the 20th century. Ayesha Khanna translates Raqs (Dance), an example of Noon Meem Rashid's use of free verse in Urdu poetry.
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Urdu & Hindi Poetry
Zindagii Se Darate Ho
Noon Meem Rashid (1910 – October 9, 1975) is considered one of the founding fathers of contemporary Urdu poetry. Ayesha Khanna translates his classic poem Zindagii Se Darate Ho (You Are Afraid of Life?)
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Fiction
Tanuja Desai Hidier: Opal Mehta
TANUJA DESAI HIDIER aired her thoughts on finding echoes of and sections from her work Born Confused in “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life” by Kaavya Viswanathan.
EGO shares excerpts of Tanuja’s incisive yet compassionate analysis of the situation.
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Science & Technology
Stem Cell Research
BLIND FAITH vs. SCIENCE
Stem cells have become a magical term these days, eliciting the kind of reaction that the Muslim world had to Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Ayesha Khanna investigates the hoo-hah and science behind stem cell research.
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Fashion & Beauty
Operation Intersection
This is the beginning to a long overdue conversation where tradition meets modernity and east meets west. Where they collide emerges the voice of the survivors, the matriarchs, and the she-ros-- that have yet to be heard. But today, the former victim, now survivor, has her say!
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