Get Into the Groove

New Yorkers listen up:
Just because it’s Thanksgiving doesn’t mean you should spend the weekend in sweats, doped up on tryptophan.
Here’s what:
Put down that remote control you’ve been clutching and slowly inch away from TNT’s Law and Order: SVU marathon. Slap on some body glitter, slip on your balle-balle shoes, and head over to […]

November 2006

Child Labor in India and Anita’s Story

According to India’s labour ministry, “there are 12.6 million children aged between 5 and 14 working in the country — the largest number of child labourers in the world.”
The real number could be higher, given the unknown size of the child domestic work force. “‘It’s difficult to say how many children do domestic work as […]

November 2006

India on the Verge of Epidemic

The numbers are sobering.
According to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 400,000 people in India die of AIDS each year. An estimated 5.7 million are carriers of the HIV virus.
That’s more than any other country in the world.
In a Reuter’s report published earlier today, Ashok Alexander, head of the Foundation’s $258-million Indian HIV-prevention project, […]

November 2006

Rickshaw Wallah, Rickshaw Wallah, Kahan Jayega?

Hop on a rickshaw in Kerala and get off in Darjeeling.
Do you have exciting plans for the winter holidays? Skiing in Aspen? Christmas in the Alps? New Year’s Eve in Rio?
Yawn.
According to the UK-based Institute of Adventure Research, the most exciting place you can be this December and January is India.
In a […]

November 2006

Mighty Heart in Mumbai

Angelina Jolie, sex-pot Oscar winner turned inspired humanitarian, is currently filming in Mumbai (the movie, called A Mighty Heart, is about the real-life 2002 slaying of American reporter Daniel Pearl).
But true tabloid-junkies care less about the film than they do about Jolie’s personal life.
Celebrity bloggers have been shvitsn over gossip that Brangelina is looking to […]

November 2006
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Where Were You in ’92?

Sri Lankan British recording artist M.I.A wants to know.
Her latest track, called XR2, represents a deviation from the trademark hyper-politicized songs of her debut album Arular.
XR2, which hasn’t officially been released yet, is more a re-visitation of 1992 and all of its kitschy pop culture, than it is a journey through her old lyrical […]

November 2006

Short Films and Docs Galore

Rashmi Rustagi, Sundeep Ahuja in “MuZak” (sundeepahuja.com)
I don’t just post about upcoming events of interest to me. I actually attend some of them too! So here’s a bit of a recap from the events I made it to at the 3rd I film festival and the screening of Meena Nanji’s latest documentary film. Did you […]

November 2006

Scottish Sikh Boy is Victim of Hate

A 15-year-old Sikh boy was brutally beaten by a gang of white teens in Edinburgh today. The attack is believed to be motivated by intolerance as the teens were heard yelling racist obscenities during the assault.
In addition to being very badly beaten, the young boy had his turban violently removed and his hair chopped […]

November 2006

Cage Becoming Sadhu?

Self-described comics fan Nicholas Cage (He named his son Kal-El–that’s pretty hardcore) is slated to play the lead in the upcoming film The Sadhu.
The movie is to be adapted from the Virgin Comics series of the same name. Sadhu is the brainchild of Deepak Chopra’s son Gotham and is ultimately about “one man’s choice […]

November 2006

Blast Off! Sunita Williams Heads Back to Space

The space shuttle Discovery is getting ready for a December 7 launch on a mission to the international space station, and Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams will be on board. She’ll be in space for six months, replacing German astronaut Thomas Reiter as flight engineer.
Back in October 2004, Nirali interviewed Sunita, and she had […]

November 2006
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