Mindy Kaling, Jonathan Ive, Aamir Khan and Elon Musk in the same sentence? Is this a case of entertainment meets Silicon Valley?  What do these folks have in common you may ask in case you missed seeing the list? What list is that? Why, the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the [...]

Jonathan Winters 87, father of mprovisational comedy passed away on April 11, 2013 in his home in California. He was also an author and an artist. He originally studied to be an artist as a young man in Ohio. A brilliant comedian, he could improvise at the drop of a hat, and was a big source [...]

Disconnect by Chennai-based Anupama Chandraskhar made its West Coast debut in San Jose in March 2013. The play runs through April 14th, 2013 and this is perhaps the first time that a play by an Indian playwright is being staged at the San Jose Rep. Disconnect had its American premier in Chicago. Set in a [...]

San Francisco bay area folks are in for a wonderful cultural treat of films, music and food att this s year’s Asian American Film Festival. The 10 day long festival starts today -March 14th and continues till March 24th, 2013. Films, music and foods are the 3 strands that bind the various Asian-American communities across [...]

Midnight’s Children was the closing night film at the recent Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose. Director Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children is based on Salman Rushdie’s novel by the same namee. Published in 1981 Rushdie won a Booker Prize for this book. He wrote the screenplay and is an executive producer of the film. Salman Rushdie  won the Maverick [...]

Every once in a while a picture will come along that makes you sit up and prompt you to think in a very different way. That is what director Ben Lewin’s The Sessions does to you as you sit in the darkened picture hall and watch a poignant, funny, optimistic and above all a well-made [...]

Madhur Jaffrey is an actress, author and a cook, who seems absolutely indefatigable. Now in her late 70s she continues to write, act,  and is back on the BBC this year with a new TV series  Curry Nation that looks at the impact of Indian curry in the UK. In the 1980s her BBC series [...]

Meet Silicon Valley-based Sujit Saraf- an engineer, writer, actor and director, who somehow seems to find the time to pursue his interests in a systematic and sustainable way. How does he do it you ask right? We had the same question. Naatak means drama in Hindi. Naatak is the name of a Silicon Valley-based theatre group [...]

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Sunil Janah, a pioneering photojournalist, died on June 21, 2012, at his home in Berkeley, California.  He was 94 years old.  Mr. Janah was one of the first photojournalists and social documentors  of India. Recently he received the Padma Bhushan, a civilian award given by the Government of India. This was presented to him at his [...]