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Mira Nair On The Reluctant Fundamentalist

By • May 1st, 2013 • Category: Books and Authors, Diaspora, Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood, India, People, Women Achievers Special
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Mira Nair‘s latest films is The Reluctant Fundamentalist.  The picture is based on a novel by the same name by Mohsin Hamid. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is an intimate portrait told with anguish and love about the 2 societies: American and South Asian says Mira, who came to the US as a 19 year old undergraduate to [...]



Playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar Part-2

By • Apr 22nd, 2013 • Category: Books and Authors, Chennai, Diaspora, Featured, India, People, Women Achievers Special
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Anupama Chandrasekhar’s play Disconnect was staged at San Jose Rep in March 2013. We caught up with the Chennai-based playwright when she was in San Jose to attend the West Coast premier of her play. In Part-2 of our conversation Anupama  takes us back to her childhood growing up in Madras, now known as Chennai. [...]



Playwright Anupama Chandrasekhar

By • Apr 8th, 2013 • Category: Books and Authors, Featured, India, People, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Women Achievers Special
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Meet Anupama Chandrasekhar, a playwright based in Chennai. Her play Disconnect made its West Coast debut at the San Jose Rep in March 2013. This is perhaps the first time that an Indian playwright’s work is being staged at San Jose Rep. Disconnect is translated in a couple of European languages and made its European debut [...]



Mrinal Pande on Technology & Media in India

By • Mar 24th, 2013 • Category: Books and Authors, Featured, Ideas, India, New Delhi, Women Achievers Special
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Mrinal Pande  shares her thoughts on technology, media and the vibrant, youthful energy in India. Pande has over 30 years of experience as a writer and journalist, and a decade as editor-in-chief of a leading newspaper. Pande was the first woman to become the chief editor-in-chief  (2001-2009) of a leading Indian newspaper – The Hindustan Times, [...]