
Australian documentary filmmaker Victoria Pitt describes her emotional experience covering the harrowing attacks and takes us inside the corridors as the siege unfolds.
Nov 21, 2009 | Categories: Filmmakers | Tags: Anjali Pollack, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Chabad house, Colaba, india, Jihadi, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Leopold Restaurant, Michael Pollack, mumbai, Mumbai Massacre, Nariman house, Oberoi Trident, pakistan, Pakistani militants, PBS, Rabbi Gavriel, Rivka Holtzberg, Secrets of the Dead, Taj Hotel, Taj Mahal Hotel, Terorrism, VT Station, WNET | 1 Comment »

Singh travels across northern India and Pakistan to capture perspectives on the partition.
Feb 07, 2009 | Categories: Filmmakers | Tags: august 1947, india, indian subcontinent, karachi, kashmir, khyber pass, kutch, pakistan, partition | 2 Comments »

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 [...]
Jan 28, 2009 | Categories: Filmmakers | Tags: bollywood, bombay, danny boyle, film, films, golden globes, india, movie, movies, mumbai, nomination, oscars, slumdog millionaire, south asia | Leave A Comment »

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 [...]
Jan 25, 2009 | Categories: Writers | Tags: author, fiction, india, literature, new delhi, south asia | 2 Comments »