For the first time, Netflix India’s Sacred Games is nominated for International Emmy Award 2019 in the Drama Category. The crime thriller is directed by Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane. For the first time, the Victorious trio of Netflix Original series SACRED GAMES – Author Vikram Chandra, Scriptwriter Varun Grover, and Director Vikramaditya Motwane, will be on one panel at the South Asian Literature and Art Festival. For the first […]

The British artist and author Edmund De Waal said “With languages you are at home anywhere”. But this sort of philosophic insight is ill-advised in a polarized nation such as ours. Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s comment on language seems to have stirred a hornet’s nest “Diversity of languages & dialects is strength of our nation. But there is need for our nation to have one language, so that foreign […]

There is something to be said for a contrite heart as it has frequently to do with the business of heaven; with the contrite politician there could be a lot said as it concerns the business of perpetuating his heaven on earth. And when the politician veers over to the other extreme by ostensibly turning over a new leaf and parroting the opposite viewpoint then one can be sure that […]

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 […]