Articles tagged "india"

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Monsoon Wedding (The Criterion Collection)

by Shaun Huston

[13.Nov.09] :. A family drama, as mosaic of modern, globalizing India, as a love story that sneaks up on you, and as a discourse on post-modernity and tradition.

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Marriage Bureau for Rich People by Farahad Zama

by Shyam K. Sriram

[8.Oct.09] :. If writers want to ameliorate the public perception of India held by the vast majority of the planet, they should write realistic fiction and not continue to perpetuate either the notion of the Temple of Doom dystopia or the Jewel in the Crown utopia.

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Black Gay Marriage

by Diepiriye Kuku

[24.Aug.09] :. Listening to ‘A Spirited Debate on Gay Marriage’ from the Michael Eric Dyson Show

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Sound Affects

Monsoon Dance

by Diepiriye Kuku

[20.Jul.09] :. Rain dancing in India's long awaited Monsoon to OthrSdeOf80's R&B tracks.

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Politics Feature

India Shining?: America’s Indian Moment

by Derik Smith

[13.Apr.09] :. Perhaps Slumdog Millionaire is an elaborate, cinematic version of Bobby Jindal. Perhaps Western audiences have so deeply appreciated Boyle's film because it subtly reiterates a symbolic order that is as familiar as colonial conquest.

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AIDS Sutra ed. by Negar Akhavi

by Shyam K. Sriram

[1.Dec.08] :. The deepest and darkest secrets in India are those that even people who have lived there don’t talk about. To do so would admit that something was very, very wrong.

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Debashish Bhattacharya: Calcutta Chronicles

by Deanne Sole

[3.Jun.08] :. This is an excellent disc, one that rewards multiple visits.

 

The Clippings File: Pakistan

by Jillian Burt

[9.Jan.08] :. Pakistan Tops List of Journalists Killed in 2007 In 2002 Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was murdered in Pakistan. His widow, Mariane, also a journalist, wrote a book about her...

 

The Elephanta Suite by Paul Theroux

by Michael Antman

[27.Nov.07] :. In Paul Theroux’s brackish, world-weary new collection, India is inherently unknowable and inevitably dangerous, the result of such knowledge being disappointment at best and, at worst, rape, dissolution, or death.

 

Alejandro Franov: Khali

by Deanne Sole

[13.Nov.07] :. Alejandro Franov helps Juana Molina with her albums. On Khali he uses instruments that imitate the flowing sound of water, rain, or rivers.

 

Various: Gypsy Caravan

by Deanne Sole

[10.Sep.07] :. The album is crammed. It’s a packed smorgasbord.

 

Various Artists: The Rough Guide to Bollywood Gold

by Deanne Sole

[11.May.07] :. The Rough Guide to Bollywood Gold manages to be a solid contribution to a swelling genre without ever feeling like an essential disc.

 

Unbridled with Life: Interview with Mira Nair

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Mar.07] :. With The Namesake, based on Jhumpa Lahiri's popular novel, Mira Nair has found an ideal subject -- a family full of complex characters who spend their lives traversing traditions and expectations.

 
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The Namesake (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[12.Mar.07] :. Attentive to surfaces as well as nuances, Mira Nair's adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's novel, The Namesake, is about legacies and responsibilities, ambitions and dislocations.

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