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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 Shivani, Writing and Journalism

By • Mar 14th, 2013 • Category: Books and Authors, Featured, India, New Delhi, People, Women Achievers Special
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Mrinal Pande is a journalist, author and TV personality. She was the first woman in Indian media to become the chief editor of a national newspaper. This was for the Hindi edition of The Hindustan Times. Mrinal  was a teenager when cut her teeth as a copy editor. She helped her mother, the well-known Hindi [...]


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