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Festivals
Cannes 2023 reviews – Asteroid City; The Zone of Interest; Godard by Godard; The Passion of Dodin Bouffant; Rapito; Sleep; and Indian Nehemich
With ‘Asteroid City’ by Wes Anderson in cinemas now, we publish our reviews of all the non-South Asian films we…
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Festivals
Cannes 2023 – Critic Meenakshi Shedde on jury duties, Indian films and British ‘Polite Society’… (video interview)
This is the extended story about the video interview we did with Shedde in Cannes just before the beginning of…
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Main Headlines
Swati Natekar – singer’s plea: ‘Follow your art’ – creates rich sounds and legacy, and is inspirational…
She is regarded as one of the UK’s foremost Indian vocalists and her words of encouragement for female artists especially…
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DJ Ritu awarded an MBE in King Charles’ Birthday Honours List 2023
Recognition for pioneering disj jockey and LGBT community…. DJ RITU – as she is best known – receives an MBE…
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‘Count Abdulla’ – New British comedy horror TV series looks like a winner with British Asian life in all its messy, funny glory…
Dropping on ITV’s streaming service is a vampire comedy drama series with a Muslim doctor at the centre of the…
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Books
JLF London 2023 – Renaissance, renewal, racism – No literature festival quite like it…?
London Authors, ideas, controversies… often but not always with a South Asian twist and now in its 10th edition here……
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Festivals
‘Dragon’s Food’ (1987) – actor Bhasker Patel on his film screening at the inaugural BFI Film on Film Festival and other South Asian gems…
Legendary ‘alternative’ Indian director Mrinal Sen film and pioneering documentary maker Sarah Erulkar also feature in this new festival produced…
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Books
Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) at British Library (London); star names, rising and established to hit capital city…
One of the largest festivals of its type, it brings its caravan of books, authors and ideas to London again……
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Art
‘The Offbeat Sari’ exhibition – Indian designers make a modern statement with heritage garment and Sabyasachi’s Met Gala declaration
How this new exhibition at Design Museum London is helping give India its global fashion moment… by Momtaz Begum-Hossain “WHAT…
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