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Madhur Jaffrey On Taste Memories of Delhi

By kamla bhatt • Jan 29th, 2010 • Category: Bollywood, Books and Authors, Diaspora, Entertainment, India, New Delhi, New York, People

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Madhur Jaffrey , a well-known actress & author of several cooks books & TV shows talks about her autobirograhy: Climbing The Mango Trees.
In this autobiography she paints a wonderful picture of her childhood in India. Madhur grew up in a large “joint family,” in Delhi during the 1930s and 1940s. So in the book she [...]

In Conversation With Aasif Mandvi

By kamla bhatt • Sep 24th, 2009 • Category: Bollywood, Diaspora, Entertainment, Featured, Mumbai, New York, People

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Actor and comedian Aasif Mandvi has done it all: one-act plays, Hollywood films and Emmy award winning TV shows.
In this interview we cover a wide range of topics including how Aasif got his break in Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show, his new movie project, the 2008 Mumbai blasts and Bollywood.
Aasif was born in Mumbai, grew [...]

Bollywood Arrives At US Universities: Tula Goenka

By kamla bhatt • Jul 5th, 2009 • Category: Bollywood, Diaspora, Entertainment, Featured, Mumbai, New York, People

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Bollywood, or the Hindi film industry. has entered US schools. You read that right. Bollywood is currenly taught in a smattering of US universities as an under gradate course, and New York’s Syracuse University offers a Bollywood internship program in India. Syracuse is the first American University to offer a Bollywood internship that [...]

Beth Loves Bollywood

By kamla bhatt • Jan 26th, 2009 • Category: Bollywood, Entertainment, Featured, India, Life, USA

Beth Watkins is a self-confessed Bollywood addict, and is part of a growing tribe of Bollywood fans in North America.
Her interest in Bollywood underscores a growing trend that Bollywood films appeal to a wide audience who are not necessarily from Asia or Africa, the traditional domain of Hindi films.
Pico Iyer summed it up very [...]