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BusinessWeek Names Kazi to Top 25 Under 25
Sumaya Kazi In its second annual search for the best young entrepreneurs, BusinessWeek.com selected Sumaya Kazi, a Bangladeshi American woman from California, as one of its “Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25″ for 2006. At 24, she is the youngest manager in her marketing department at Sun Microsystems and co-founder of online media publishing company The [...] -
Disha Theatre Dishes up Three Nights of Sex, Drugs and Mothers
Reena Dutt, Disha’s Director of Development, and Purva Bedi, its Artistic Director and Founder (www.dishatheatre.org) In Sanskrit and Hindi, Disha means direction. Expanding in a new direction, Disha Theatre, the South Asian theatre company originally founded in New York City, has arrived in Los Angeles. Starting next week, Disha brings us a collaborative reading [...] -
An Appeal for ArtWallah’s Sake
(ArtWallah.org) ArtWallah’s mission is to “foster and promote artistic expressions of the South Asian diasporic experience, and to create channels of communication between artists and diverse communities.” Nirali’s debut issue covered the ArtWallah Festival, the largest annual South Asian diasporic arts festival in the U.S. Later issues have also featured artists, writers, and other [...] -
Gold, Gold and More Gold
My brother and sister claim that I’m obsessed with a “unique quiz cum game show” on GeminiTV, an Indian station my parents receive via satellite. Evoking the game show classic “Family Feud” in its setup, “Bangaram Mee Kosam” (the title roughly translates from Telugu as “Gold for You”) has multi-generational families competing against each other [...] -
Abha in That City
Abha Dawesar talks about That Summer in Paris---her new novel, and her time spent writing it in the city of lights. -
One Woman Show
Funny lady Rasika Mathur talks about how the Bard launched her comedy career. -
Jungli’s Wild Ride
Tasneem Nanji rocks the crowd. -
Feast for the Soul
Puris and pakoras might fill the belly, but the ArtWallah Festival fulfills a cultural craving that comes deep from the soul.