Tag Archives: Hinduism
“Blackness in India” (notions of beauty in India)
I recently met Lucia King at her film screening of “At Play” at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in West Kensington, a documentary of film director Roysten Abel’s adaptation “In Othello” of Shakespeare’s play “Othello” (talk about meta texts!). “At Play” … Continue reading
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“An Artist with no nationality” by Kavita Ramdya (review of Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy of Art)
Read Kavita Ramdya’s review of Anish Kapoor’s exhibit at the Royal Academy of Art. The Anish Kapoor exhibit at the Royal Academy of Art is all the rave right now. You can’t escape it: Anish Kapoor’s name decorates Tube turnstyles, … Continue reading
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“An Indian in Paris” by Kavita Ramdya (Sakti Burman at Aicon Gallery London)
Click here to read Kavita Ramdya’s profile of artist Sakti Burman and a review of his show at the Aicon Gallery London. A few weeks ago I discovered Aicon Gallery, a space completely devoted to promoting Modernist and contemporary Indian … Continue reading
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“Wedding-Planning Tips” (for Indian Brides) by Kavita Ramdya
Click here to read ”Wedding Tips”, an article containing the top five tips I gathered from interviewing twenty couples in researching my book “Bollywood Weddings: Dating, Engagement and Marriage in Hindu America”. Needless to say, I’ve inadvertently built an expertise in Indian-Hindu wedding planning. With … Continue reading
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Review of Nina Paley’s “Sita Sings the Blues” by Kavita Ramdya
Click here to read Kavita Ramdya’s review of Nina Paley’s animated film “Sita Sings the Blues”. A few days ago I interviewed cartoonist Nina Paley for a review I wrote of her animated film “Sita Sings the Blues”. The movie … Continue reading
Filed under Film
Welcome to Bollywood Weddings
“Bollywood Weddings: Dating, Engagement and Marriage in Hindu America” answers the age-old question “Why do we marry the people we choose to marry?” What attracts people to one another based on their ethnicity, religion, linguistic, cultural, vocational, educational, and financial … Continue reading
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