Sumita M. Sheth

Gup Shup

TODAY: Meet Geeta Anand, WSJ investigative reporter whose book became "Extraordinary Measures," the big new movie with Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser - 2-3 pm Columbia J-school

If you are free, please join us for this rare opportunity to chat informally with Mumbai-based Geeta Anand, who is in town to for today's premiere of "Extraordinary Measures," the big new Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser film based on her book, "he Cure: How a Father Raised $100 Million--and Bucked the Medical Establishment--in a Quest to Save His Children." She will discuss the book and how it became this major movie as well as life as a WSJ journalist in India (she and her family moved there in 2008). Hosted by Columbia J-school and SAJA-NY.

Friday, Jan. 22
2-3 pm Columbia Journalism School
Stabile Student Center (lobby floor)
116th St & Broadway
No RSVP required.

More on the movie: http://extraordinarymeasuresthemovie.com/

More on the book: http://www.thecurebook.com/

Jan 22, 10 11:07 AM 

NAM Stimulus Fellowship

"THERE ARE STILL TWO SPOTS LEFT!"

"DEADLINE THIS THURSDAY OCTOBER 1, 2009
Who: Ethnic Media Reporters and Freelance Journalists

Fellows will research a story or a series of their design, documenting and explaining the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) on the ethnic community served by their publication. Fellows will receive a $3,500 stipend in two increments ($1,000 at the Washington, D.C. workshop and $2,500 once the story or series has been published or aired).
Each fellow will submit a proposal outlining an investigative story, or series of stories, she or he intends to research and write, as well as a signed agreement by his or her publisher/producer to run the story or stories in their ethnic media outlet.
Fellows will also participate in a mandatory two-day politics and policy workshop hosted by New America Media and Investigative Reporters and Editors in Washington, D.C. November 12-13, where they will meet national policy-makers, leading investigative and business journalists, policy advocates, and researchers. NAM will disseminate stories produced by the fellows to ethnic and mainstream media partners and nonprofit collaborators through our news wire.
For full description of the fellowship and the application, please click here."

Sep 29, 09 02:14 PM 

Misc October Events

Upcoming DC & Philly Singles Interactive Mixers [Intersections Matchmaking]

1) DC Singles Interactive Mixer - Thu. Oct. 1

Date & Time: Thu. Oct. 1, 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Location: www.TabaqDC.com
Co-hosted with friends: Ajay, Ramya, Sanjay & Smita
Cost: $35 prior to event via. PayPal / $45 at the door - cash / check

2) Philadelphia Singles Interactive Mixers - Fri. Oct. 9

Date & Time: Fri. Oct. 9, 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Location: Chima
Co-hosted with: Anjali (www.TheDesiDiva.com)
Cost: $30 prior to event via. PayPal / $40 at the door - cash / check

Sep 29, 09 12:07 AM 

Stranger Love: SAWCC's 6th Annual Literary Festival

In New York, this coming weekend!

The South Asian Women's Creative Collective presents:

Stranger Love: SAWCC's 6th Annual Literary Festival
March 6–7, 2009

A two-day series of readings, panel discussions, and writing workshops featuring South Asian writing that explores love between strangers and love that is strange.

This year's festival, Stranger Love, calls to mind accidental encounters and provocative attractions that defy the boundaries of social expectation. From guerilla movements in Sri Lanka to the suburbs of New Jersey, South Asian women examine journey and memory, war and conflict, and race and sexuality, spanning the genres of poetry, memoir, travelogue, and fiction.

Friday, March 6th, 7pm
Reading and Conversation

Featuring Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jhumpa Lahiri (Unaccustomed Earth, Knopf 2008), with author V.V. Ganeshananthan (Love Marriage, Random House 2008).
This event is now sold out, but please come out for drinks with us on Friday evening and celebrate SAWCC's 12th birthday!

at Wollman Hall
The New School
65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY

Saturday, March 7th, 10am–5:30pm
Panel Discussions and Writing Workshops

Day-long series of panel discussions with Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Meena Alexander, Abha Dawesar, Farzana Doctor, Minal Hajratwala, S. Mitra Kalita, Pooja Makhijani, Suketu Mehta, Chandra Prasad, Zohra Saed, and Svati Shah. See http://sawcc.org/events for full schedule.

Writing workshops include a poetry workshop with Purvi Shah and fiction writing with Bushra Rehman. See http://sawcc.org/events for sign-up information.

at The New School
6 East 16th Street (at 5th Ave), 9th Floor
New York, NY

Saturday, March 7th, 7pm
Closing Night Reading

From dating on Craigslist to undiscovered family histories, South Asian women share their own writing on the theme of "stranger love," featuring Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Meena Alexander, Abha Dawesar, Farzana Doctor, Minal Hajratwala, S. Mitra Kalita, Yesha Naik, Amy Paul, Bushra Rehman, Zohra Saed, and Purvi Shah.

at Bar 13
35 East 13th Street
New York, NY
$5 at the door

For full schedule and detailed ticket/venue information, visit http://sawcc.org/events
Questions? Email litfest@sawcc.org

Stranger Love is cosponsored by the New School's South Asia Forum, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, and Sholay Productions. This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; and by the New York Council for the Humanities.

Mar 4, 09 09:35 PM 

Holi - Festival Of Colors

Upana in association with Sunnyvale Hindu Temple & Community Center
invites everyone to attend & enjoy the festival ...

Hindu Temple & Community Center Sunnyvale along with other organizations is celebrating Holi - Festival Of Colors on March 7, 2009 (Saturday). Please mark Your Calendar and be a part of this celebration. The program details are as below :

Holika Dahan - Friday, March 6th 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Holi Celebrations - Saturday, March 7, 2009
11:00 AM - 01:30 PM Rang & Raas
01:30 PM - 02:30 PM Lunch
03:00 PM - 05:30 PM Cultural Program
Where : Sunnyvale Hindu Temple and Community Center
420-450 Persian Dr, Sunnyvale, CA 94089

$7 per person (includes lunch, color & program).
Children under 10 are free.
Free Parking & Shuttle buses provided.

For latest updates visit www.upana.org/sitemap & www.upana.org/events-holi2009

Happy Holi and we all look forward seeing you.

If you have any questions or comments, let us hear from you. We need your thoughts and community benefit from your ideas. Community care is everyone's responsibility, we?re proud to support and be part of it.

Feb 19, 09 08:13 AM 

COMPETITION : CINE REMIX ONLINE

Deadline March 10th 2009

Video sharing sites like Youtube and DailyMotion are now the norm, and remixers everywhere are busy mashing-up film clips, movie-trailers and music videos and posting them for the world to see.

French music and digital arts festival Tilt are launching a video mash-up competition in collaboration with curators Cinefeel.org who have been screening work of video remix artists for over a decade, and trail-blazing audio/video remixers Addictive TV, who’ll sit on the judging panel. The winner will receive €1000.

The deadline to submit a piece to the Tilt Festival is midnight on MARCH 10th 2009, contestants are invited to create a short video mash-up by sampling and remixing public domain video clips. For more information on how to participate, entry rules and to get links to some public domain archives, please visit: www.tilt-festival.org

To see examples of video remixes and mash-ups of competition juror Addictive TV, check out: www.myspace.com/addictivetv

And for more info about Cinefeel, please visit www.cinefeel.org [you'll also find more info on the competition].

Feb 10, 09 01:01 PM 

Chocofest 2009 - Chocolate Festival

This FRIDAY!

Shake off the winter blues…join us for a chocolate festival !

Make friends, drink and indulge in Chocolate! Lots of chocolate!

Lend-A-Hand India (www.lend-a-hand-india.org) invites you TO a happy hour with a difference...
Join us for a happy hour plus chocolate festival!
Bring a friend or two, bring a date or find one :) Feel free to forward this to on to others
What more can we offer you? How about the good Karma of helping India's poor youth learn valuable job skills!

If you can't make it for the event but would like to donate please visit: http://www.lend-a-hand-india.org/donate.php

Details
When: Friday Feb 6th; 6.30-10 pm
Where: MadameX SOHO - Voted the #1 lounge in NY by Citysearch (www.madamexnyc.com)
@ 94 W Houston Street between Thompson and LaGuardia
Subway: B,D,F,V-Broadway-Lafayette St; 4,5,6-Bleecker St; N,R,W-Prince St
Contact: raj.gilda@lend-a-hand-india.org; 917.715.9693

Buy $25 tickets here

Feb 5, 09 08:27 AM 

Battery Dance Company presents Layapriya

NYC
March 5 and 6, 2009

Battery Dance Company Revives the Celebrated India-Inspired LAYAPRIYA for Concerts at BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center on March 5 and 6, 2009.

Battery Dance Company and BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center will co-present two concerts on Thursday, March 5 at 7:30 pm and Friday, March 6 at 8 pm, highlighted by the revival of Layapriya. This dance work choreographed by Jonathan Hollander draws inspiration from a rich blend of Indian and Western musical and dance traditions. Eero Hämeenniemi’s score for the piece is performed in recording by the Helsinki Philharmonic and Karaikudi Mani & Ensemble. Tickets for the performances in Studio One at Tribeca PAC, 199 Chambers Street in lower Manhattan, are available at www.tribecapac.org/dance.htm . General Admission is $35; Student & Senior is $20; Special opening night gala tickets including a post-performance meet-the-artists reception are $150. Gala Tickets are available through battery@batterydance.org or 212-219-3910.

Jan 27, 09 08:40 AM 

Also Jan 28th, New York : Dance Performace

Tamarind Arts Council

RamaNarayan
Presents
Dance Performace
of
Ms. Ramya Ramnarayan

Tamarind Arts Council
DATE: January 28, 2009
TIME: 6:30 - 8:00 pm
LOCATION: 142 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016

Ms. Ramya Ramnarayan is a Bharatha Natyam performer, choreographer, and educator who studied Bharatha Natyam and Abhinaya under renowned lineage of Guru Swamimalai Rajaratnam and Padmabhushan Smt. Kalanidhi Narayanan. She has carved her niche among most creative leading dancers from India thru sincere dedication towards tradition coupled with much needed adaptive innovation for contemporary times.

Ramya has won the much coveted "Kalaimamani" and "Nadanamamani" titles. The Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey have passed a joint resolution recognizing Ramya Ramnarayan for her commitment, dedication and achievement in the art of Indian Classical Dance. She has the distinction of being the first non-resident Indian to win such testimonies. She has received a special award from the Cleveland Aradhana Committee, the honorable title Nrithya Seva Mani (2008). The Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and NEA have awarded her the prestigious Artist Fellowship Award for Choreography (2008) in recognition of her creative talent.Ramya has been appointed by the Governor of New Jersey as the Board of Trustees for the Asian American Study Foundation a New Jersey State Organization (2008).

Jan 27, 09 08:35 AM 

Film screening and discussion with Lene Berg, 28th Jan, 5 pm

Something in Delhi.

FICA is pleased to invite you to an evening of film screening and discussion with Norwegian artist and filmmaker Lene Berg on 28th Jan at 5pm at the Vadehra Art Gallery, D-40 Defence Colony.

Berg will be screening her film "Stalin by Picasso" followed by discussion of her work.

Lene Berg was born in Oslo and is currently based in Berlin. Berg primarily works with video, photography and text. By using different medias and fictions in her installations, she explores the relationship between contemporary images and inherited conventions, between clichés and facts, between politics and rules of narration. During the last years she has been particularly focused on the distribution of ideas, and the conditions of artistic freedom in relation to political agendas.

In "Stalin by Picasso or Portrait of Woman with Moustache" (2008) she uses the scandal caused by Pablo Picassos drawing of Josef Stalin in 1953 to highlight the complex relationship between art and politics, between collective perception and individual ex-pression. The public part of the project, three façade-banners, caused controversy both in Oslo and New York during 2008, ironically mirroring what took place in 1953.

Her most recent project, "The Drowned One", was first shown at the Sydney Biennial in 2008. It presents an unusual view on the history of photography, dealing in particular with the relationship between photography and truth, using the rather unknown proto-photographer Hippolyte Bayard as a starting point.

Her project "Gentlemen and Arseholes" (2006), consisting of a video and a book, revolves around the contradictions in art and propaganda during the Cold War. The project focuses on Encounter, a cultural journal published in London and distributed during the 1950s and 60s as a vehicle for the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Berg's approach called into question what was defined as a "liberal conspiracy" and later deemed a successful state sponsored cultural effort carried out by the CIA.

In 2008 she participated in the Sydney Biennial, the Taipei Biennial, was shown at Whitechapel Gallery in London, at Fotogalleriet in Oslo and at Cooper Union in New York

Jan 27, 09 08:34 AM 

ARTISTS IN EXILE & other shows

(1) Arario Gallery
521 W 25th Street

January 24, 2009 - February 22, 2009
Opening Reception: January 24, 6-8pm

Curated by Jaishri Abichandani and Thorsten Albertz

Arario Gallery presents Artists in Exile, a group exhibition of works by artists of South East Asian, Middle Eastern, or Indian descent that reside in New York City. The exhibition will be on view from January 24 through February 22, 2009. A reception for the artists will be held at the Gallery on January 24 from 6 to 8pm.

“Exile” has been defined in history as being away from one’s home of birth or origin. In Greek tragedies, to wander away from home meant being exposed without protection from familiar laws, friends and family, and was seen as a fate worse than death. The artists in this exhibition bridge their cultural heritage with their country of residence; they cross reference, reinterpret and integrate cultures to express the myriad of experiences brought about by diaspora. Artists in Exile includes works by Samira Abbassy, Jaishri Abichandani, Mariam Ghani, Pooneh Maghazehe, Sara Rahbar, The Shining Mantis (Ernest Concepion and Mike Estabrook), and Sonali Sridhar and Mouna Andraos.

(2) SHIFTING SHAPES UNSTABLE SIGNS

Yale School of Art
Opening Jan 27th 2009
Curated by Robert Storr and Jaret Vadera

3.RE-IMAGINING ASIA

Curated by Shaheen Merali

New Art Gallery Walsall

13 February - 4 May 2009

Gallery Sq, Walsall, WS2 8LG, United Kingdom

4.INDIAN POPULAR CULTURE AND BEYOND: The Untold(the rise of) Schisms,
Curated by Shaheen Merali
Sala Alcalá 31, C/. Alcalá 31, 28014 Madrid, Spain

February 6th- May 29th, 2009

Jan 23, 09 08:35 AM 

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE "remixes"

I am currently in love with these SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE remixes :-)

STANDARD QUALITY: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXmmwK971V0
HI-QUALITY VERSION: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXmmwK971V0&fmt=18

Jan 22, 09 02:45 PM 

Five Days in March - U.S. Debut Tour

chelfitsch Theater Company

Five Days in March

U.S. Debut Tour

Written & directed by Toshiki Okada
Thursday, February 5, 7:30 PM
Friday, February 6, 7:30 PM
Saturday, February 7, 7:30 PM

Jan 12, 09 12:27 PM 

African American Women In Cinema: 11th Annual International Film Festival

Schedule here

"African American Women In Cinema is a non-profit organization whose mission is to support minority women filmmakers by providing resources in the film industry."

"The Festival will feature works of emerging and established women filmmakers who are of the African, Latina and Asian Diaspora"

Nov 4, 08 02:03 PM 

Bombay/New York: An Evening with Mira Nair and Suketu Mehta

MOVING IMAGE AT THE TIMES CENTER

Museum of the Moving Image and Indo-American Arts Council present
Bombay/NY: An Evening with Mira Nair and Suketu Mehta
Friday, November 7, 7:00 p.m.
At The Times Center, 242 West 41 Street, Manhattan

Modern Bombay, home to 20 million, is one of the world’s most vibrant urban centers. Its official name is Mumbai, but as author Suketu Mehta writes, the city has "multiple aliases, as do gangsters and whores." Bombay, and its relationship to New York, will be the focus of this lively evening of discussion and film clips. Mehta and film director Mira Nair are two of the most prominent Indo-American cultural figures; Nair’s acclaimed films include The Namesake, Monsoon Wedding, and Salaam Bombay! Mehta, who was born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay and New York, is the author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and

Nov 3, 08 01:59 PM 

MAHINDRA INDO-AMERICAN ARTS COUNCIL (MIAAC) FILM FESTIVAL

Wednesday, November 5 - Sunday, November 9

Schedule here

"MIAAC 2008 is the premiere festival of innovative and independent Indian diaspora films in the United States and centers on the new face of Indian cinema."

Nov 3, 08 01:57 PM 

Global Compassion Ball at the UN