Premz preaches community solidarity with new single ‘Mogul Mind’
Rapper Premz, known for Mixing Cultures through his love of music, released 'Mogul Mind',the first single of his second album, on Friday 26th June 2020 at 7pm.  'Mogul Mind', meaning powerful talks about Solidarity, Community, Power & Pride which shares a message to the South Asian community to come together and eliminate the segregation that has divided South Asians through culture, caste & religion...
Producer Siddharth Roy Kapur acquires rights to William Dalrymple’s Bestseller ‘The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
Roy Kapur Films have acquired the rights to create one of the most ambitious global series on British Colonialism to date Prominent Indian producer Siddharth Roy Kapur, former MD of The Walt Disney Company India and current President of the Producers Guild of India, has launched one of the most ambitious television series to date, based on the duplicitous rise of the...
Major grant funds groundbreaking musical project Raga Maqam
Raga Maqam blends traditional Indian Ragas with Maqam, melodies from Arab, Turkish and Persian Music For the first time since its inception four years ago, The India Center Foundation (ICF) has been awarded a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) for the production of their ground-breaking musical project, Raga Maqam. This collaborative venture explores the confluences...
Going virtual – London Indian Film Festival 2020
This year's London Indian Film Festival (LIFF) has taken the unprecedented step of going online, as well as planning some physical events for later in the year, hoping that conditions will improve. The festival will run 25 June – 5 July and will consist of selected feature films from the last ten years, the previous winners of the Satyajit Ray...
Romance is in the air with Sajda UK’s mesmerising flute-harmonica concert
The online celebration of Sajda festival has perhaps been designed with the truest Indian spirit – unending and colourful platter of pure love. And one cannot have enough of it. After the massively hit first two shows, the festival is set to lure its audience with soulful melody of Indian flute and harmonica for the next two episodes. Indians...
Stories as tools for life and happiness: a reading of Iain Cunningham’s personal documentary Irene’s Ghost
In these times on COVID-19 spurred enthusiasm for virtual gatherings, I have been involved in a couple of such events over the past week. One was the virtual screening of my documentary film Sweet Malady that was part of the program for the Montage Film Series hosted by the Pompano Beach Cultural Center this month but had to be...
Lockdown Diaries: Saurav Dutt, author of ‘Dear Mr Bachchan’ talks about the joys of lockdown creativity
Now is the time to take the magic of words, music, art, and creativity and to allow them to inspire, comfort and empower you during the mental tests of Lockdown. There is joy in finding magic and solace in the written word, and the most testing of times empowers one to find enchantment among sentences, to flesh out the fabric of...
Flowers – an environmental poem
I haven’t been able to make much music recently. Processing the news around us has been far from easy. So here’s a different kind of offering, with words and paint, this one is called — Flowers. It rained last night, From a monsoon sky, Soaked my soil, Burrowed its way Deep into my heart, Until I was swollen... Dark earth, Bubbled bright, And it hurt To be brimming with...
I Can’t Breathe
At a time of global pandemic, it is telling to see the large gatherings of protestors across America. Personal safety has been thrown aside in a quest for justice. The deep upset and anger caused by the death of George Floyd has been felt far and wide, and it's certainly not just African Americans that can sympathise with the systemic...
Debut novel depicts the challenges of a young Asian woman expelled from Uganda
Winter was just setting in when I first saw the images of Ugandan Asians disembarking at UK airports. The weather was foul and l’ll never forget the look on the faces of the new arrivals, as they started their new, diminished lives. The year was 1972 and I was a teenager leading a comfortable life in the English countryside....
