Art & Culture
Sun to Stars
Solar One, in it's mission to create energy awareness through public education and cultural programming presented Sun To Stars,a South Asian Festival. EGO shares with it's readers, "Samanvay" the enchanting performance by the Parul Shah Dance Company at the festival.
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Queer
Real Lives, Real Survivors
The NYC Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Domestic Violence Taskforce Presents the Second Annual Conference on Intimate Partner and Domestic Violence Real Lives, Real Suvivors: From Policy to Practice.
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Economy & Politics
Poet of the East
...“Poet of the East,” which befits his efforts to transform modern India and Islam from helpless fatalism and spiritual apathy toward renewed cultural vigour and social progress". A short essay on the architect of modern India and Islam, Muhammad Iqbal, by Randeep Purewall
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Reviews & Previews
All grown up
....On the inside it’s all grown up. For the first time the optional i-Drive system is now available in the 3 series. One control knob and a large screen set in the centre of the dash board now enables you to control and adjust everything ..." Ashok Kalia, an internationally published motoring writer, reviews the BMW 3 series Coupe.
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Fiction
Sweet Dreams, Sinclaire
"They knew the right words, and when to say them. No turn-of-phrase escaped their attention. They rejoiced in idealism and philosophy, and reveled in certain pieces of cinematic brilliance." EGO presents "Sweet Dreams, Sinclaire," a novel excerpt by Mo Shah.
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Economy & Politics
Whale Country
A short personal essay by V.V. Ganeshananthan on family history and Sri Lanka: "A Tamil boy, not yet my father, was born in a village in the Tamil town of Jaffna, Ceylon, in 1944. Everything in the village looked beautiful to him then: it was peaceful, full of coconut and palmyra trees, and not far from the sea."
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Diaspora(s)
Caribbean Indians: Unveiled
"It may be true that I indeed grew up in the United States, and I am proud of that but at the same I am proud to be a Caribbean Indian. Until I can take pride in my culture, I cannot take pride in myself." Anita Haridat explores her Indo-Carribean heritage in this essay.
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Inner Sanctum
The Things I Carry
Before job interviews I always negotiate with my chest. While a woman asks me where I want to be in five years I look out her window at the invisible stars hiding behind bulbous clouds and daylight, but she’s still in my peripheral vision. A short personal essay by Adrienne Anifant.
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Fiction
Miles
EGO presents "Miles," a story by Michael Tyrell. Michael Tyrell co-edited the poetry anthology Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn (NYU Press, 2007). His poems have appeared in Agni, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Yale Review.
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Bollywood
Wall Street to Bollywood
From an investment banker on Wall Street to a Bollywood actor in Mumbai; Rahul Bajaj is a man of many talents. After achieving success in Bollywood, Bajaj can now add the avatar of writer to his resumé, with the recent launch of his first book 'Bollywood Roulette: Inside the Struggle!'.
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