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 […]
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 […]
“Zinda dilon ki hai yahan zindagi … murda dil khaak jiya karte hai.” This dialogue might not have been from one of Feroz Khan’s iconic films, lesser still it was a release that tanked at the box office without so much as a whimper. But that is besides the point, the significant thing is that it endorsed a creed that was at the very heart of this flamboyant actor’s existence. […]
The eminent British Critic Neville Cardus once said “We remember not the scores or the results in after years: it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination. A true batsman should in his most of his strokes tell the truth about himself”. And so they do, but while the object of Neville’s subjective, romantic pieces and his flowery prose were the flamboyant wizards of the willow, […]
The famous American author John C. Maxwell said “ A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow”. This could very well apply to the Indian film industry where most of the scripts celebrate the make believe and maintaining the semblance of reality is essentially an afterthought. Suspension of disbelief is a term that is not only missing from the lexicon not because realism has been suspended but […]
Batting may be cricket’s heartbeat but fast bowling is its pulse. The pulse though is witnessing a rapid descent of sorts with the tearaways somewhat losing their way. Never a constant feature in any bowling lineup, apart from possibly the West Indies till the nineties, the speed merchant is now, due to unresponsive pitches, unkinder rules and cruel schedules, almost approaching extinction. Rabada !!! … say the optimists but that […]
The creative climes of Bengal have inspired original thinking among its people for decades but TMC’s recent ingenious election stunts are setting a benchmark of a different kind. As part of its election strategy, popular Bangladeshi actor, Ferdous Ahmed was employed by the TMC to campaign for one of its candidates in a border town. While mercenaries position themselves in different regions around the globe from Syria to South America […]
Virat Kohli had once said that he sees himself as more of a Cristiano Ronaldo than a Lionel Messi. According to him, “Messi is a freak (genius) but this guy (Ronaldo) is giving him a run for his money because of his hard work”. While this could be a corollary to the talent vs. hard work debate, it points to a trend that has gone beyond the truism it has […]
Sunil Mantri(SM): Could you tell something about yourself ? Rajneesh Dhawan)(RD): I am Associate Professor with the Department of English at the University of the Fraser Valley in Canada. I was born in Amritsar and despite being a Canadian for almost ten years, I have retained strong connections with the city of my birth. I have been freelancing for stage and television for more than two decades. I have written three T.V. series […]
Titanic, the gigantic ship started its venture on April 10, 1912, five days before it collided with an iceberg and sank into the frigid water of Atlantic on its maiden voyage. More than a century of research and debate, have brought different theories and facts about the ship, which has become famous even after the failure on its first expedition. Fourteen years before the Titanic expedition, writer Morgan Robertson wrote […]
