How can it be summer without the New York Indian Film Festival? Through ups and downs, its cinematic wisdom has seen us through good times and bad, and showed us the better sides of our nature. The good news is that NYIFF – one of the pure delights of NY- is back
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‘Looking for a Lady with Fangs and a Mustache’ comes from a master filmmaker and a master teacher of Buddhism, and the direction and story by Khyentse Norbu set it apart and tempt you to see his other films, if you haven’t seen them.
While the ongoing pandemic has uprooted the regular lives of so many, three artists in New Jersey showed how painting an imagined world has actually offered ways to cope and make connections in a socially distanced life.
If you grew up in India you will remember the magic of myths and folklore which was passed on to you by your grandparents, loving aunts and grand-aunts and their loquacious helpers. There were stories for all occasions: stories at meal-time, stories at bed-time and even stories for monsoon evenings. Stories for sad times, and stories for happy times.
As you grew up and left home, either for further studies, to find work or to get married, you haphazardly packed these childhood tales into your suitcases, in-between the spice boxes and the photo albums and the clothes. And then you forgot about them. Until you yourself became a parent – in a new land, in uncharted waters.
Longing to go to a real live theater, surrounded by real live people? Tired of being glued to your television set? If you’re caught in pandemic hesitancy, there’s a better way – the all-American drive-in! You get to see movies on the big screen from the safety of your own car and you get to take off your mask for a breather!
At a time when most of us are trapped in the pandemic blues and survive in our grungy tee-shirts, sweatpants and sneakers, can there be a place for high fashion? The beautiful and beguiling surreal world of NY Fashion Week seemed to be from a galaxy far, far away until I received an invite for New York Fashion Week, to check out the Fall/Winter 2021 Collection of Bibhu Mohapatra, one of NY’s noted designers.
Remembering the Lost 500,000 Americans Grieving with President Joe Biden… Today is a somber day – America has reached a…
How would you like to watch Hindi blockbusters and eat Indian food all day? That seems to be the delightful lifestyle Indian-American filmmaker and writer Sri Rao is blessed with! This Philadelphia native has taken two things which everyone loves – Indian food and Bollywood movies – and made a fun living out of them.
Valentine’s Day with President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden – a heartful affair!
Meet Dr. Chetna Singh, emergency care physician at Ocean Medical Center in New Jersey. For the last year she has grappled with the unending coronavirus pandemic, working the frontline in the emergency room. Right from the first beginnings through the first wave to the second wave life has been lived out with the somber reality of packed hospitals, with patients on ventilators and near death, fighting against a relentless virus.
Vikas Khanna’s debut feature film ‘The Last Color’ is now streaming on Amazon Prime – an emotional feel-good film for our stressful times.
There are many young women who agonize about starting a family during their child-bearing years and are searching for solutions. In an earlier feature we had explored the route of adoption which can create families where none existed. For others, there is the less traveled way of surrogacy – conceiving their biological child through surrogacy.
2020 was a scorcher – shell-shocked and weary we are so relieved to get off the scary ride in this nightmare amusement park.
In a year of being marooned at home, our televisions and our laptops became family, giving us solace and comfort and the laughs we desperately needed. Our streaming services were especially cherished as they ensured the latest blockbusters and hot serials came to us when we couldn’t go to the theaters.
2020 in America -Pandemic, Economic Disruption, Vote Wars. The year revisited through reports about tragedy and triumph.
A Suitable Boy has been with us for decades, in our hearts, the gift of everyone’s favorite author Vikram Seth. This global best-seller clocks in at 1349 pages and is one of the most beloved novels about a post-independence India. It has now been adapted to a BBC six part series by Mira Nair.
Pakoras: Can you stop at one?
Guess whom I saw outside Trump Tower? Was it or wasn’t?
Sean Connery was a fine actor who went on to many challenging roles, was knighted by the Queen and won an Oscar but to us he will always be the first and best James Bond.
The American president and vice-president were always white and always male. With President Obama’s inauguration they finally got to see a minority family in the White House.
Now with the nomination of Kamala Harris as vice president by Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden, comes the unprecedented prospect of a woman and a minority in the second highest position in the land.