Posts Tagged ‘india’

A chilling look inside the “Mumbai Massacre”

A chilling look inside the “Mumbai Massacre”

Australian documentary filmmaker Victoria Pitt describes her emotional experience covering the harrowing attacks and takes us inside the corridors as the siege unfolds.


Filmmaker Sarah Singh on her documentary “The Sky Below”

Filmmaker Sarah Singh on her documentary “The Sky Below”

Singh travels across northern India and Pakistan to capture perspectives on the partition.


Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle interview

Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle interview

Here’s a link to an interview with Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle. The movie was just nominated for 10 Oscars, including ones for best picture and director.
The interview is co-hosted by Aseem Chhabra and Sreenath Sreenivasan, the co-founder of the South Asian Journalists Associations and a professor at the Columbia Graduate School of [...]


Karan Mahajan

Karan Mahajan

Author Suketu Mehta has high praise for Family Planning in The Daily Beast and wrote: “I recommend Karan Mahajan’s debut novel Family Planning. It’s the truest portrait of modern New Delhi I’ve read, and the funniest book of the year, about a government minister with 13 children. The author is only 24.”
In this three-part video [...]