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Monthly archives: August 2019

SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE & ART FESTIVAL – October 6 to 13, 2019.

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 […]

6th Annual Oakville Diwali Gala to Raise Funds for OTMH

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 […]

Enemy at the gates

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 […]

6th Annual Oakville Diwali Gala to Raise Funds for OTMH

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 […]

Tuning into Anurag

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 […]

Trumpery Times

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 […]