“Paro”: The impact of films and social media to create change.

By Kavita A Chhibber Paro, a compelling film on bride slavery, came to Massachusetts in March and continues to win hearts and make minds think. After the sold-out private screening on March 9th at Apple Cinema in Cambridge and a very successful screening at the Read More …

Icons and Impact: Celebrating the Power and Legacy of Indian Cinema

By Kavita A Chhibber It was an idea blessed by the Indian government, taken forward and sponsored by the Consulate General of India in New York and conceptualized by entrepreneur and Impact Advisor Priya Samant through her Icons and Impact series. The event finally took Read More …

The Valley Recalls: The anniversary of the Kashmiri exodus marked in Boston with poignant optimism. A personal perspective.

By Kavita A.Chhibber Kashmiri Panditon Ke Ghar” (“The homes of The Kashmiri Pandits”) In the narrow lanes of the old town The homes smolder like unfinished funeral pyres The shards from broken windows create wounds That drip from the roofs built by our forefathers Dimmed Read More …

Javed Akhtar’s “Main Koi Aisa Geet Gaaon” – A Must Watch Master Class with a Master Story Teller

By Kavita A Chhibber He is incredibly witty, has a phenomenal memory, endless energy and passion, and he is a very young 73, but not many people know that writer and poet extraordinaire, Javed Akhtar’s great great grandfather Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi was Mirza Ghalib’s contemporary and Read More …

Javed Akhtar’s “Main Koi Aisa Geet Gaaon” a must attend masterpiece presentation.

He calls him self an atheist and a rationalist, his close friend Chanda calls him a “closet spiritualist” because she says, no atheist could have written a deeply spiritual song like “O paalan hare” (from Lagaan) to which he retorts, that he also wrote the Read More …