The South Asian Literature and Arts Festival shall be held at the Montalvo Arts Canter, Saratoga from the Oct 6 – 13, 2019. The event is curated by Montalvo Arts Canter and Art Forum SF, a non-profit organization which objectively promotes various forms of creative expressions from the South Asian countries and has had a decade long presence in achieving the same. The SALA Festival aims at bringing together stalwarts […]

A hero is just someone who is brave for a little bit longer… and thus believed Benjamin Andrew Stokes to play a defining innings for several generations to come. Almost a superhuman effort which probably a 15 year old stokes could not have imagined when his folks took that jet leap from Kiwiland to Old Blighty to stoke the lionhearted spirit. We have been witness to several outstanding knocks in […]

Special event on Oct 18th at 8 pm | Montalvo Art Center, 15400 Montalvo Road, Saratoga CA | Noon to 5 pm For the first time ever, Montalvo Arts Center and Art Forum in collaboration with UC Berkeley Institute of South Asian Studies bring to you one of the largest South Asian Literature & Art Festival (SALA) in the US. South Asian Literature and Art Festival celebrates contemporary reflections of […]

2019 Oakville Diwali Gala is Oakville’s largest South Asian gala, in support of Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital. On September 20th more than 400 guests will enjoy a glamorous evening as Oakville Diwali presents Lights, Camera, Auction! This year’s event will directly benefit the expansion of the surgical program, putting essential equipment in the hands of OTMH caregivers. “Oakville Diwali has become an important event for the Oakville Hospital Foundation both […]

The American business magnate John. D Rockefeller once said “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity”. While the objective of Rockefeller, widely considered the wealthiest American of all time, was decidedly to inspire his fellow Americans into achieving their dreams, the years of unbridled ambition degenerating into rapacity have reduced the once motivational line to a war whoop for the greedy to embark once again on their […]

Plans are underway for 2019 Oakville Diwali Gala, Oakville’s largest South Asian gala, in support of Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital. On September 20th more than 400 guests will enjoy a glamorous evening as Oakville Diwali presents Lights, Camera, Auction! This year’s event will directly benefit the expansion of the surgical program, putting essential equipment in the hands of OTMH caregivers. More equipment, more surgeons and new operating rooms are the […]

Anurag Kashyap has quit twitter ostensibly because his family was threatened over his political views. It is difficult to imagine the filmmaker, not known for taking a backward step, being forced to abandon starboard and beat a hasty retreat. But so often are the celebrity denizens of the net faced with a deluge of negative reactions that they tend to scurry for cover after the initial bluster. While the net […]

Award winning American actress Tina Fey is of the opinion that “confidence is 10% work and 90 % delusion”, but one suspects that had she been exposed to the bizarre psychology of the orange haired buffoon a little earlier she would have been forced to revise the 10% to an even more insignificant figure. History has yet to see a likeness in a position of such authority who while suffering […]

Plans are underway for the 2019 Oakville Diwali Gala, Oakville’s largest South Asian gala, in support of Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital. On September 20th more than 400 guests will enjoy a glamorous evening as Oakville Diwali presents Lights, Camera, Auction! This year’s event will directly benefit the expansion of the surgical program, putting essential equipment in the hands of OTMH caregivers. More equipment, more surgeons and new operating rooms are […]

‘Everyone has a hidden agenda. Except me!’ This might have been the conviction of outspoken actress Swara Bhaskar when she tweeted from an article by historian Rana Safvi which read “Mughals came to India as conquerors but remained as Indians not colonists. They encouraged trade, developed roads, sea routes, ports & abolished taxes. Hindus were richest under them.” Rana is of course a well-known historian with several articles and books […]