Posts Tagged ‘Bombay’

By kamla bhatt • Nov 25th, 2009 • Category: Books and Authors, Diaspora, Featured, India, Mumbai, New York, People

American filmmaker and writer Sadia Shepard grew up thinking that her Pakistani maternal grandmother was a Muslim just like her mother. And therein lies an interesting story, whose roots can be traced to the
partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947 and the tragic consequences it had for so many families and people [...]



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

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 [...]