How do you immortalize a master in his own art?
That was the question facing Vijay Sampath, the new CEO of ACK Media and editor Reena Puri over commemorating Anant Pai, the creator of India's Amar Chitra Katha comic book series. "Uncle" Pai passed away one year...
0 Comments | Posted December 13, 2011 | 12:52 PM
Picture a museum of all things Indian and you might envision something like Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts, which featured prominently at the Art Gallery of Ontario for much of the past year. It was a display of historic Indian regalia at its finest: jewelry, clothing,...
0 Comments | Posted September 20, 2011 | 11:40 AM
The arrival of the Toronto International Film Festival neatly heralds the end of the summer festival season in the city and Canada as a whole. However glamorous the parade of celebrities on the red carpet may seem, nothing quite compares to the peculiar sight of the Ratha Yatra in Toronto...
0 Comments | Posted June 28, 2011 | 12:33 PM
Time is a funny concept for Indians. Sometimes its as fluid and expansive as the country itself; other times its short and harshly abrupt. And sometimes its just painfully long. Depending on who you ask, this weekend's International Indian Film Academy awards (the "IIFAs") in Toronto shows why the expression...
0 Comments | Posted June 15, 2011 | 1:45 PM
When US President Barack Obama visited India last November, he remarked, "India is not simply emerging; India has already emerged." He could have just as easily been speaking about another compelling aspect of the country: the growing profile of the "global Indian" diaspora.
Late last week, close to...
4 Comments | Posted February 27, 2012 | 5:50 PM