Elephant Parade is a conservation campaign that shines a multi-coloured spotlight on the urgent crisis faced by the endangered Asian elephant. Brought to you by registered charity The Elephant Family this colourful event sees over 250 brightly painted life-size elephants located over central London this summer. Each decorated by a different artist or celebrity,...
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(1) Firmly in the top position, is Witness the Night which, if you haven’t read it yet, you MUST! So rare to find a both that’s both literary and this gripping – we literally cannot wait for the sequel! (2) It’s an academic book really but Sinister Yogis offers an interesting slant on the...
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Date: Tues 16th and Wed 17th November at Alexandra Palace Next week, one of the world’s most revered Hindu saints, a Keralan woman known as Amma - the Divine Mother – comes to the UK. Often known as ‘the hugging mother’ she gives her darshan, or spiritual embrace, in the form of a close...
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Thought not strictly about India, her work involves gurus, enlightenment and the Dalai Lama, so we thought it excuse enough to get in touch. We spoke to bestselling author Isabel Losada about her new book The Battersea Park Road to Paradise, self help weekends with Antony Robbins, potent South American hallucinogens and a dread-locked...
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FREEDOM NOW! AASHISH KHAN TO PLAY ONE-OFF CHARITY CONCERT IN LONDON ON JULY 9TH 2010, 7-10pm The famous sarode player, Aashish Khan, will play an exclusive concert at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in West Kensington, London, on July 9th. He will be supported by internationally renowned artists Yousuf Ali Khan (tabla) Nicolas Magriel (sarangi)...
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Piers Moore Ede interviews Tishani Doshi about her new book. Q: You’re best known as a poet. How did the transition to writing novels come about? TD: I’m not sure when I got hold of this notion that I should write a novel. Poetry, for me, remains the central and primary instinct, but I...
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Indiaphile interviews musician Susheela Raman, one of the most creative and interesting artists to emerge in the South Asian diaspora. Susheela has a justified reputation as an incandescent live performer and a string of groundbreaking albums to her name: ‘Salt Rain’ (2001). ‘Love Trap’ (2003). ‘Music for Crocodiles’ (2005) and ‘33 1/3’ (2007) This...
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Forty years after his novel Troubles was first published, Anglo-Irish author J G Farell has posthumously been awarded the “lost” Booker Prize, devised to honour the books published in 1970, but not considered for the prize when its rules were changed. Widely regarded as one of the most talented writers of his generation, Farrell...
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