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Where Do All the Desi Girls Go Out to Play?
by Shamik Das
So much going on in the Premiership, Robinho, Berba, Keegan, so much going on in the world, but what to write about? As I sat staring at a blank screen trying to unscramble my mind I turned to Facebook for inspiration. Little of note on the homepage, some crazy invites to far-out groups and a few [...][...more]
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Shades of Brown
by Kia Abdullah
We use racial stereotypes in banter but there is a darker side to our generation Gujaratis are stuck up. Pakistanis are stingy. Indians run corner shops. Sri Lankans own petrol stations. And Bengalis are obsessed with fish. Right? Ok, not right, but how many of us have used one of those stereotypes to make fun of a friend? How many of us [...][...more]
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Hollywood sues Bollywood over Hari Puttar
by Pras Geng
It has been a very long time coming, but finally Bollywood is receiving the slap on the wrist that its Western viewers have always anticipated. British media reports claim that the Hollywood studio behind the Harry Potter movies is suing Bombay based Bollywood film makers, Mirchi Movies, for using a movie title that is a little [...][...more]
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It Ain’t All Bollywood
by Yasmin Sadek
My recent trip to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe rekindled my love for theatre and arts. One play in particular gripped my attention. It centred on Bollywood, and the theme of the play reminded me of the problems we try and hide within the British Asian community. “It Ain’t All Bollywood” is a theatrical play written by [...][...more]
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Bips Blasts “Boy’s-world” Bollywood
It’s no secret that Bollywood is, and has always been a male-dominated industry. The men get paid more, and enjoy much longer, illustrious careers, while their female equivalent see their fee and film offers reduce greatly once they hit 30. Bipasha Basu, possibly the most forthright and outspoken actress in Bollywood (bar perhaps Kareena Kapoor) has [...][...more]
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Are Asians a tight-fisted lot?
by Aliya Rashid
Are we Asians a tight-fisted lot? Do you only believe that charity begins at home? Not true I hear you cry. I’m generous; I give money to causes back home, in the ‘motherland’. Well, that’s great! But what about here? What about the organisations over here that deal specifically with Asian problems. How much do we give them? [...][...more]
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Readers Column: Don’t Forget Kashmir
I am writing to express my heartfelt sadness at the death of media coverage on the world’s oldest unresolved international conflicts, Kashmir. To relay the words of French Author and Nobel Prize Winner Andre Gide: “Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.” The [...][...more]
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Jade’s run in with Big Boss
Big Boss is the Indian version of Big Brother, it is now in its second series with the opening night taking in a record number of viewers (over four million). As one would suspect, every candidate in the Indian house seemed to have aspirations in Bollywood in one form or another - and then [...][...more]
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Mr.Flex FX: Naz Choudhury
by Pras Geng
Flex FX is the leading performance arts and entertainment company of its kind in the UK, catering for shows with explosive acts as well as offering dance lessons and an event management service. Their résumé boasts an impressive number of live performances, earning them the unofficial title of ‘biggest Asian dance troop in the UK’. They [...][...more]
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The Unforgettable Tour Reaches London
by Seema Sidha
The summer is here and so is the hottest Bollywood concert of the decade, yes! It is the Bachchan’s Unforgettable World Tour. With the unprecedented success in Toronto and America, the tour is now set to come to London. The show starring Bollywood’s royalty Mr.Amitabh Bachchan, the younger Bachchan couple - Aishwarya and Abhishek, Preity Zinta, [...][...more]
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