Tag Archives: South Asians in England
“Faiza Butt in ‘The State of Things: Recent Art from Pakistan’”
Click here to read Kavita Ramdya’s review of Faiza Butt’s show at the Aicon Gallery London, “The State of Things: Recent Art from Pakistan”, in the February 2010 issue of “Modern Art Asia“. www.bollywood-weddings.com ============================================= “Faiza Butt in ‘The State … Continue reading
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“Divorcer a l’anglaise comme un musulman”
I got a kick out of reading this French blog posting about a letter I wrote to the “Financial Times” in response to Dr. Suhaib Hasan’s first-person article “I’m a sharia judge” (a friend translated the entry for me). I … Continue reading
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“An Alien Artist” (profile of Saad Quereshi)
A few weeks ago I attended the opening of Saad Quereshi’s group show at Aicon Gallery London. Saad is a young, Pakistani-English artist whose highly-conceptual work is both rigorous and well crafted. He was extremely grateful for his parents’ support … Continue reading
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“Worshipping the Common Man” (art review of Subodh Gupta) by Kavita Ramdya
It was great to interesting to see how Subodh Gupta integrates humor into his art work. In his sculptures, Gupta pokes fun at the western art world’s description of his work in relation to Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst as if there is … 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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“Muslim women’s right to happiness under threat” by Kavita Ramdya
Click here to read Kavita Ramdya’s letter in the “Financial Times” in response to Dr. Suhaib Hasan’s request that divorce decisions made by sharia councils be recognized by British law. “Muslim women’s right to happiness under threat” – Letter by … Continue reading
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