Tag Archives: popular culture
“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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“Glee for Glee” by Kavita Ramdya (TV review of Fox show “Glee”)
I can’t help it: I’m a self-confessed “Glee” fanatic. It’s the best show on TV… in my humble opinion. “Glee” is ironic, smart and totally entertaining. While watching “Glee”, I’m always listening for how the dialogue is going to create an opening for … Continue reading
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“Beautiful Betty as budding artist” by Kavita Ramdya
I enjoyed writing about Betty Draper, actress January Jones’s character in the AMC show “Mad Men”. My husband and I love watching “Mad Men”: the writing is impeccable, interspersed with meaningful silences rather than inane dialogue, and the plot lines … Continue reading
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Review of Hanif Kureishi’s “The Black Album” at the National Theatre by Kavita Ramdya
Click here to read my review of the stage adaptation fo Hanif Kureishi’s novel ”The Black Album”. In the summer of ’08, for my “Contemporary British Literature” class, I taught Hanif Kureishi’s “The Buddha of Suburbia”, a coming-of-age novel about a young Indian-English Hindu Brit … Continue reading
“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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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
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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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