Anoushka on tour with Pandit Ravi Shankar

Anoushka Shankar has just released a new album- Anourag. Watch Anoushka perform with father Pandit Ravi Shankar throughout the fall.

Tour details are as follows:

November 4: Tucson, AZ
December 12: San Diego, CA
December 17: Ann Arbor, MI
December 21: Newark, NJ

For further details:

Visit www.angelrecords.com or www.ravishankar.org or call 1-888-391-1816.

Power and Desire

NEW YORK: Drawn from one of the finest collections of Indian paintings in the world, this exhibition features more than 70 paintings created between the 16th and 19th centuries for the Mughal and Rajput courts. These masterpieces, which have not been on public display in over 25 years, illuminates the complex and fluid relationships among gods, kings, lovers, and others, in settings that range from opulent palaces and lush gardens to cosmic spaces.

Organized by the San Diego Museum of Art in association with the Asia Society. South Asian Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art, Edwin Binney 3rd Collection is co-organized by the San Diego Museum of Art and the Asia Society.

Date and venue: Upto January 07, 2001 at Asia Society, Midtown, 502 Park Avenue at 59th St., New York, NY.

For further details:

Call 212- 288 6400.

South Asian Journalists Association's(SAJA) events

November: Meeting wtih Humphrey Hawksley, BBC correspondent and author, 'Dragonfire' (novel about nuclear war between India, Pakistan and China).
December: Meeting wtih Dinesh D'Souza, author, 'The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values In An Age Of Techno-Affluence'. Event co-sponsored by Project IMPACT.
December 13: SAJA Holiday Party (no speeches).
January 30, 2001: Meeting with Manil Suri, author, 'Death of Vishnu'.
June 2001: SAJA Annual Convention in NYC.

For further details:

Visit www.saja.org.

Festival of Odissi Dance

CALIFORNIA: Padma Vibhushan Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra, known as a living Legend of Odissi dance or also as the 'Father of Odissi Dance form', along with son Ratikant Mohapatra and Sanyuktam- his disciples. Live orchestra also present.

Admission $50, $35 and $20, on first come basis.

Date and venue: October 29, 3:00 PM, at Smithwycke Theater, Foothill College, Los Altos, SF Bay area,CA.

For further details:

Call Indo-American Community Service Center at 408-748 1771, fax: 408- 748 1311 or visit www.indo-american.org. Call Sam Rao at 408-748 1771. E-mail: icsc@yahoo.com. Address: ICSC-Indo American Community Service Center 3065 Democracy Way, Santa Clara, CA 95054.

IT and globalization

NEW JERSEY: The Indian Cultural Association at Rutgers University is organising a lecture/discussion on 'Information Technologies in India and its Globalization'.

The event will be held on November 9 at 8 pm at Rutgers University.

Bollywood music awards

NEW YORK: The first Bollywood Music Awards is to be held in New York on November 12, 2000.

Nominees are already being chosen in various categories, eg best music director, best male singer, best female singer, best album, best dance video, best song of the year etc.

There will also be live performances by artistes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the Caribbean, the Middle East, the UK, New Zealand, Canada and America.

The official web site for the awards is ForIndia.com. For further information please contact 212-633 1717 or email bollyaward@aol.com.

Bollywood Music Awards, 33W 19th Street, New York, NY 10011, tel: 212-633 1717, fax: 516-7422868, email bollyaward@aol.com.

Sai Utsav

CHICAGO: The Shri Shirdi Saibaba Website Organization has announced a Sai Utsav to be performed during Thanksgiving Weekend, between November 23 and 25 in Chicago. The program includes discourses by eminent speakers from India and other places.

For further details:

Visit www.saibaba.org, e-mail: saiutsav@saibaba.org or ayushmehra@hotmail.com, call Mukund Raj: 847- 931 4058, fax: 847- 931 4066, address: Sai Utsav 2000, 182 West Melrose Suite #4, South Elgin, IL 60177, USA.

South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association

NEW YORK: The South Asian Lesbian and Gay Association (SALGA) is a social and political group for lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgender people hailing from countries such as Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tibet, as well as people of South Asian descent from countries such as Guyana, Trinidad, Kenya, etc.

SALGA's monthly meetings are held on the second Saturday of each month from 3:30 to 5:30 pm at the Lesbian and Gay Community Center 1, Little West 12th Street. Meetings open to South Asians only.

For further details: Visit www.salganyc.org, mail salganyc@hotmail.com or call 212-358-5132.

Youth Internships

DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving), a social justice organisation of the South Asian Community in New York is kicking off the first-ever Youth Power Internship program. DRUM Youth Power eight-week intensive internship program seeks to empower South Asian youth from low-income communities in grassroots leadership and community activism through a combination of hands-on fieldwork and training.

The program seeks to provide much needed opportunities for youth from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Guyana, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Trinidad and other parts of the South Asian community in New York City.

DRUM requests individuals/organisations to contribute so that a stipend of $300 can be provided to each low-income youth intern. Cheques or money orders should be payable to The Brecht Forum.

For further details:

Contact DRUM, c/o The Brecht Forum, 122 West 27th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10001-6281.

Call (718) 404-3900 ext.9498.

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