Ideas Without Boundaries.
He recites T.S. Eliot with the same ease with which he plays the sarod. A linguist, who once fooled a diverse array of people from different States of India by speaking their own dialect flawlessly, he is also a highly accomplished singer who was invited Read More …
In conversation with Kavita A Chhibber She is a legendary film actress, one of those rare ones who made a success of careers both in Mainstream and Parallel Art Cinema in India. She made it to Hollywood at a time no one had heard of Read More …
Coming from a family of academicians, a chemical engineer chucks up a lucrative job and a cushy life style not once, but twice to follow his passion-film making. Sounds like a plot from one of his films? Indeed Nagesh Kukunoor did just that! Today Kukunoor Read More …
Indian Hotels are more hospitable than any other chain in the world.” He is the hot and happening New Yorker, who creates culinary delights with fingers that don’t just knead dough, but sculpt and scribble in other mediums, and while the pen may be mightier Read More …
Walking through the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Israel, a few months ago I could barely contain my tears, looking at the images of one of the biggest human tragedies, but to talk to Holocaust survivor Werner Reich a couple of weeks ago and see his Read More …
** Fair warning: The following review may contain plot spoilers. ** This film was making waves because of a short but explicit gay love scene and a story that revolved around two cowboys in the early sixties. Yet Brokeback Mountain is simply an ageless, timeless, Read More …
Designer silk robes, flowing locks, frenzied flocks, people chanting and swaying and prostrating themselves in devotion- the many hues of spirituality come in diverse packages. I’m beginning to lose count of how many gurus and Mas (the divine mothers) I have been invited to interview, Read More …
Life has taught me that we are all part of the same community.” The first thing that strikes you when you meet and get to know Sherry Frank, the Executive Director of the American Jewish Committee’s Atlanta Chapter, is her impeccable sense of fair play Read More …
By Kavita A Chhibber I’m back in Atlanta after an amazing trip to Israel. Since the story has to go to various publications (and to preserve its originality) I will refrain from writing a 3000-word blog. What I want to share here (maybe not so Read More …
He is very much a chip of the old block. The tall, handsome son of movie legend Dharamendra and youngest brother of acclaimed actor Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol was launched by his father in Barsaat. The film also marked the debut of Rajesh and Dimple Khanna’s daughter Read More …