More Stars Announced For 2014 Stand Up To Cancer Telecast

This Friday, September 5th (8:00 – 9:00 PM ET/PT),Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a program of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), will stage its fourth biennial ...

MDA Show Of Strength Telethon Raises Millions For Charity

The MDA Show Of Strength Telethon raised over $52 million on Sunday. “It’s inspiring to see so many celebrities, musical artists and athletes join forces to hel...

A Complete Network, Almost

Has the time come for Indian Television to move into genre specific channels? On a visit to Canada, I discovered that there were pay channels dedicated to Westerns and war ...

Now Women Lead In Blockbuster Cinema

Women have played a pivotal role in Indian Cinema. From the entertaining musicals of Bollywood to the serious Parallel Cinema, women have acted, choreographed, directed and...

Punks, Pereras and Happy Hookers: Women of the South Asian musical diaspora

A number of young South Asian women are making inventive, cutting edge music, channeling the spirit of Grace Jones, Patti Smith and punk rather than Raj Kapoor. Are we livi...

Apl.de.ap Announces Partnership With The Vision Center At Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

The Apl.de.ap Foundation International, the charity established by apl.de.ap of the Grammy Award-winning group, Black Eyed Peas, and The Vision Center at Children’s H...

UN launches Bollywood music video for gay rights in India

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday launched the first-ever Bollywood-style UN music video at a press conference in Mumbai, India to promot...

Lily Allen Joins Star-Studded Coram Charity Concert

The Royal Albert Hall came alive for Coram’s biggest ever musical fundraising concert featuring Lily Allen,Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Queen’s Brian May, Kerry Ellis, ...

Garry Lyons – Writing For Society

No one can see beyond the horizon of their own lives. We are threads in the great tapestry of time. Have faith. Every stitch has a reason – Anon

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