Becoming Family: A Tsunami Relief Documentary

A small coastal village’s tsunami memorial to the 136 people who died there. (typecastingfilms.com)
I remember attending a five-college production of Richard III years ago and being struck by the dynamic lead actor Rahmi Mowjood. He brought Shakespeare’s portrayal of a bitter, power-hungry royal to life. Mowjood went on to complete medical school, and recently worked […]

December 2006

Creating Community

Sumaya Kazi is connecting young professionals everywhere—and garnering some attention for herself along the way.

November 2006

Jungli With Shaheen Sheik

Two singer/songwriters perform at fair trade cafe.

November 2006

Newly-elected Councilmember Anu Natarajan

Anu Natarajan (anu4fremont.com)
Role model C. J. Cregg
Earlier this month Anu Natarajan became the first Indian American elected to a city council in northern California’s Bay Area. Appointed two years ago to the city council of Fremont, the Bay Area’s fourth largest city, she received enough votes in the recent elections to finish out the rest […]

November 2006

Happy Cranberry-Colored Holidays

Cranberry harvest. (British Columbia Cranberry Growers Association.)
As a fruit indigenous to North America, the cranberry was around long before Thanksgiving. It’s a berry that adds color and flavor to some of the holiday’s traditional foods. And to some not-so-traditional foods. My mother has been known to stockpile bags of the berries in the freezer this […]

November 2006
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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

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

View From a Grain of Sand Screening

View From a Grain of Sand stills.
The trailer for Meena Nanji’s View From a Grain of Sand—premiering Monday, November 13, at 8 p.m. at the REDCAT in Los Angeles—opens with shots of young women walking and smiling on the streets of 1970s Kabul, Afghanistan. With their clothes and hairstyles and upbeat attitude, they could’ve blended […]

November 2006

3rd I: A Film Fest for the West

I For India (thirdi.org)
Some of the screenings at 3rd I’s 4th Annual San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival have already sold out online. That’s why you’d better get moving if you’d like to see any of the films in the festival lineup posted below—old, new, classic and cutting-edge—being shown this weekend, November 10-12. 3rd […]

November 2006

Miniatures Worth a Closer Look

Untitled (9), 2003, collaborative piece in “Karkhana” (asianart.org)
This is the final weekend to see ‘’Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration‘’ at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Intrigued by the diverse images I saw in the publicity for this exhibit—ranging from traditional Mughal imagery to a portrait of Pervez Musharraf riding a Corinthian (?) column—I decided […]

November 2006
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