The album ‘Urban Fusion’ features Dj Zeus, Sanj, Desi Underground, Metx & Trix, Sureinder Rattan, Apache Indian, Sona Family etc plus exclusive mixes by popular reggaie artists Wayne Wonder and Sean Paul. In addition there are tracks from Asian Empire (Canada), KArmacy (USA) and music from Hip hop heavy-weights Ashanti, Cam’ron, Jay-Z etc.
Apache Indian, remember him – he is the ragamuffin who sang Arranged Marriage. He is back and is currently touring the United States along with reggae superstar Sean Paul. Apache’s new tracks
Global Talk and That Girl are on radio in the United States and
have been play listed by 15 top stations across the country.
Rumours that Apache and Sean Paul are collaborating on a new single were further strengthened after the two artists were seen leaving the venue together with ApacheÄôs UK producer Charlie Brown apparently heading for a downtown studio.
Given the success of Addictive, and later Mundayen to Bach Ke, is it any surprise that more and more hip-hop producers are experimenting with Hindi-Hop. Timbaland & Magoo are helping brown senorita Raj© Shwari make a nationwide debut with her single, Indian Flute.
As Divya, one really cool blogger says, “Hearing Timbaland and Magoo try to speak Hindi is sort of cute but still straight up weird. But I guess they can get away with it since so many Desis think they’re from the hood. I speak hindibonics so I’m straight beta. Haha.”
Anyway Philly-gal Raj© Shwari has performed with almost all the top hip-hop artists including Missy, Bubba, NAS, Ms. Jade and of course Timbaland.In case you are interested in getting a perspective on the whole Hindi-Hop thing, you can read this post.
bq. Anyway if you like So Addictive, I would urge you to check out Company FlowÄôs
We know how the un-NRI gang loves the Chill Out Series pout out by Buddha Bar folks. So here is a little something of a preview about some of the tracks featured in this compilation — Abhijit PohankarÄôs Piya Bawari, KaruneshÄôs Punjab, SuvarnaÄôs All Is Dust and Amarjit DhandaÄôs Bhangra.
It was one of Victorian London’s great attractions, showing the wonders of the Raj. The Guardian UK’s Jonathan Jones redicovers the forgotten India Museum, albiet in the pages of the English daily. This is a truly shocking story of a Museum which at one time was the center piece of London art scene, but has since vanished, in a manner befitting a Sherlock Holmes’ mystery.
The India Museum was no Borgesian conceit; it really did exist, physically and institutionally, a phantom collection of a phantom orient, an India buried in London, skulking on Leadenhall Street, forgotten in Whitehall, lost near the Thames, displayed in South Kensington. The museum is mentioned in old guidebooks to London; its reports are in the British Library; and an administrative history by Ray Desmond was published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office in 1982. So it must have existed – but the India Museum has so
The New York Times is simply too much in love with Jhumpa Lahiri and her books. She makes it a rare three in a row. I mean she has showed up on the pages of the gray old lady, three weeks in a row.
Its incorrigible mildness and its ungilded lilies aside, Lahiri’s novel is unfailingly lovely in its treatment of Gogol’s relationship with his father. This is the classic American parent-child bond — snakebit, oblique, half-mumbled — and in Lahiri’s rendering, it touches on quiet perfection.
This is a recap of some of the headlines from 09.21.2003-to-09.262003 on NotReallyIndian.com
Meanwhile, here is short list of five most popular items on NRI….
PopMatters’ columnist Priya Lal has this interesting take on Politics and film stars, Bollywood Eshtyle.
Amidst all the fuss about Schwarzenegger, I turn, as always, to South Asia for illumination. And after doing so, I can’t help but ask, “What’s the big deal?” Film stars in politics? Eh, that’s nothing new. India has been doing it for years. In India, film stars can even become gods. That’s right. Schwarzenegger may have muscles, a cool Austrian accent, and maybe someday he’ll have the Californian gubernatorial seat, but he’s far outshined by the record of India’s film “heroes” and “heroines”. For example, N.T. Rama Rao (popularly known as “NTR”), star of the South Indian Telugu cinema’s silver screen, not only served in public office for decades, but he also cultivated an image as a “living god”.
