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8/31/2010

Afshan Bokhari, assistant professor of art history at Suffolk University's New England School of Art and Design in Boston, is finding that a combination of art and science is the key to personal and professional success.

8/31/2010
Indian Americans and curious passers-by gathered under threatening skies at Boston's Hatch Shell in celebration of India's 63rd Independence Day on Sunday, Aug. 15. In the end, fair weather prevailed, much to the delight of the more than 13,000 attendees at the annual event, which is hosted by the India Association of Greater Boston and features a lineup of cultural performances.
 
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Performance photos courtesy India Society of Greater Boston. All other photos by INDIA New England Associate Publisher Terry Egan.
8/17/2010

Author Susan Oleksiw's new mystery novel, "Under the Eye of Kali," is the first in a planned book series featuring Anita Ray, an Indian American photographer-cum- amateur detective.

8/5/2010

World-jazz ensemble Natraj, a Boston-based band featuring Indian influences, will welcome special guest Senegalese master drummer Lamine Touré for ground-breaking, cross-cultural music concert at the Be Here Now! festival, to be held at Harry Brown's Farm, 43 Abijah Hill Road in Starks, Maine. Natraj’s show begins at 7:00 p.m., on Saturday, Aug. 14. Cosmic Circus will add a visual dimension with hoops, puppets, acrobats, belly dance and fire, taking the audience on an interstellar voyage with Natraj’s music. Cosmic Circus includes One World Puppetry, Nova Dance, Neveah Dance, Starma Circus and Fantasy Fuel.

7/30/2010


Weinstein Plans Reopening of Museum’s Space Showcasing Indian Works

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has named Laura Weinstein its first curator of South Asian and Islamic Art. As the museum’s first Ananda Coomaraswamy curator, so named for the museum’s first keeper of Indian art, Weinstein is busily awaiting the day she will reinstall the museum’s South Asian art exhibit.

Weinstein has plenty of ideas for raising the profile of South Asian art at the MFA, including exhibiting some long-held pieces that have not been shown in recent years. However, the Brookline, Mass., resident will have to exercise patience before getting her chance to make her mark at one of the world’s best-known arts institutions. The museum is currently under construction, as a new Art of the Americas wing takes shape. The Indian art wing, taken down in June, will be reopened a few doors down from its former location in about a year.

While the wait is difficult for Weinstein and for the South Asian community, Weinstein said she is savoring the time the situation affords her to be able to lay out her designs for the space, which includes bringing to light some pieces not viewed by the public in decades.

7/19/2010

Author Padma Venkatraman has a formula when it comes to choosing the topic of her next book: she follows her scientific curiosity, which invariably leads her to a question for which she seeks an answer. It is a method in which curiosity leads to imaginativeness. So far it has worked well, according to the Providence, R.I., author, whose second novel is due to be published next year.

7/19/2010

Thirty contestants and a large music-loving audience gathered at noon on June 26 at Sorenson Theatre of Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., for a Bollywood song competition put on by Hindi Manch.

7/2/2010

As a young girl, Nupur Kohli never talked about make-up and boys and instead spent her time being what she calls “constructive” – always engaged in one activity or another. Then the music fever hit Kohli and she started her own radio show. Twenty-five years later she is still the voice of WNTN 1550 on the AM dial and loving every syllable.

7/2/2010

In December 2009, Ranjan Ajitabh released his debut album, “My Name is Ajitabh,” produced by World Wide Records. The album has met with more success than Ajitabh could have hoped, he said.

7/2/2010

Swaralipi, a music academy based in Wayland, Mass., brought to the New England audience a raag-sangeet concert by veteran Hindustani vocalist Pandit Ajoy Chakrabarty of India. The event was held on June 13 at the J. Sleeper Auditorium at Boston University and was co-sponsored by Learnquest Academy of Music and Boston University School of Medicine. The event was a commemorative celebration of the 150th birth anniversary of the great Indian poet, philosopher and Nobel prize winner of Rabindranath Tagore.

5/19/2010
The world premiere of a multi-media chamber opera, "Phoolan Devi: The Bandit Queen," showcased the talents of a diverse group of New England-based artists and was staged at the Tsai Performance Center in Boston on April 23 and 24.
5/19/2010
Rahul Mehrotra, architect and founder of RMA Architects, which has offices in Mumbai, India, and Boston, spoke recently at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston about the city he most loves in India and how the face of that city – Mumbai – has changed through the course of history.
5/19/2010



LearnQuest Academy Hosts Fifth Conference

LearnQuest Academy's 5th annual music conference held between March 31 and April 4 was a showcase of world-class performances in the two main styles of Indian classical music, North Indian (Hindustani) and South Indian (Carnatic), along with a more recent addition, Indo-jazz fusion.

Featuring nearly 50 local and international musicians in over 15 performances that included presentations in solo, duo and group ensemble formats, lecture-demonstrations and a documentary film screening, the popular annual festival attracted attention of music connoisseurs not only in the New England region but also from around the country.

The 5-day festival opened at Boston University on March 31 at 6:30 p.m. with an Indo-jazz style collaboration between an Indian team of flautist Rakesh Chaurasia, sitarist Purbayan Chatterjee and tablist Yogesh Samsi, and a Boston University Western jazz ensemble featuring Colin Sapp on guitar, Michael Flanagan on saxophone, Greg Loughman on electric bass and Mike Connors on drums.
5/3/2010
Sunanda K. Sanyal, professor of art history and critical studies at the Art Institute of Boston, observes the changing landscape of an Indian religious-cultural festival that has in recent years taken on a decidedly “secular” turn in his debut documentary film, “A Homecoming Spectacle.”
5/3/2010
Author and Burlington, Vt.-based Champlain College professor Tim Brookes spent months of research preparing for a trip to India to write an article commissioned by a well-known travel and culture magazine.
4/27/2010
World Music Crash Arts, now celebrating its 20th year of showcasing music and dance from all corners of the globe, presented renowned tabla player Ustad Zakir Hussain in a "Masters of Percussion" concert on Sunday, March 28 at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston.
4/2/2010
There are two kinds of people in Sumedha Ahuja-Bahri's world, those who take life too seriously and those who opt to find humor in life's challenges, including corporate annoyances of working for a directionless boss or having to deal with a quirky human resources representative. Similar themes play out in "Fishnet-Networks.net," Ahuja-Bahri's first play.
4/2/2010
On a balmy day on the eve of the first official day of spring, the India Society of Worcester held a Holi, or Navratri, event on March 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the India Center in Shrewsbury.
4/2/2010
The latest book in author Vatsala Sperling's "Little Krishna" series for children is now available, and the Richmond, Vt., resident hopes it provides more material to help kids make "smart choices."
4/2/2010

Sensational India!, 'Faces of Devotion' Start April 10 at Peabody Essex

On Saturday, April 10, the doors of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., will open for the second Sensational India! event, drawing South Asians from across the region for a two-day celebration of Indian art and culture.

April 10 also marks the opening of the museum's new "Faces of Devotion: Indian Sculpture from the Figiel Collection" exhibition.

The Sensational India! program, featuring Indian music, dance, interactive workshops and cooking demonstrations, will take place on Saturday and Sunday, April 10 and 11. "Faces of Devotion" will run through Jan. 16, 2012.
3/26/2010
Exhibit Opens April 7 at Wellesley Davis Museum

"Painted Songs and Stories: Contemporary Pardhan Gond Art from India," an art exhibit featuring the works of eight bardic priests from the Pardhan Gond region of central India, is set to run from April 7 to June 6 at Wellesley College's Davis Museum. A smaller exhibit running April 11 through May 6 at the Brookline Arts Center, titled "The Tribal World of Venkat Raman Singh Shyam," is a related solo exhibit featuring the work of one particular Gond artist.
3/26/2010
The Milan Cultural Association hosted a Boogie Woogie dance event on Jan. 30 in Connecticut. The competition, the first in a series of three Boogie Woogie events in New England, drew 21 talented young performers.
















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