Reviews & Previews

Rapid and Raucous

....what you're getting is Porsche’s sixth generation super car, an icon that goes back as far as 1972, is packed with the latest technologies and safety features and an all rounder that’s as at home on a race track as it is in the Waitrose car park. Kalia, an internationally published motoring writer, reviews the 911 Porsche.


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Art & Culture

VANAJA: A Review

Mark Twain said, "There is only one right form for a story, and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself." In the case of the film Vanaja, its director, writer and editor, Rajnesh Domalpalli, seems to have found exactly that one right way. EGO's Sumita Sheth shares her thoughts on this multiple award-winning movie.


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Economy & Politics

Secularizing India

"The poet’s coffin floats in the mosque’s shadow. The world bears witness to the funeral, the janaazah of Urdu. This is the closing of the film Muhaafiz (‘In Custody’). Randeep Purewall and Kulwindar Singh Parhar explore the dilution of India's secular identity in this second of a three part essay series.

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Diaspora(s)

On Stereotypes

Deepal Chadha indulges in "a short essay of sorts on stereotypes, for no pressing reason". Are stereotypes true or false? Right or wrong? Can a stereotype be simultaneously true and false? All South Asians are cheap and good at math right? No? Ok, not all of them but most of them, right? No?


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Queer

Coming Out Week

Outrageously riotous international sensation, Vidur Kapur will be cracking you up once again at Gotham Comedy Club… in a show especially created for National Coming Out Week! For details check out www.gothamcomedyclub.com




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Fiction

Losing Her Religion

EGO presents "Losing Her Religion," a story by Manjula Menon. Manjula's stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Nimrod, North American Review, Santa Monica Review, Pleiades and Southern Humanities Review, One of her stories was nominated for inclusion in the 2006 Best New American Voices anthology.


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