Asian Lite News Archive

Category: Profile

  • Regional cuisines come to the fore

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    Global cuisine is only touching the tip. Increasingly, you’ll be seeing more and more of regional cuisines from specific regions of countries like China and France… India’s ace Chef Sanjay Thomas talks to Vishnu Makhijani  Regional cuisines and Indian fusion dishes will be the flavour of the coming year, as will the effort to wean…

  • SAJID JAVID: FUTURE BRIGHT

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    Sajid Javid, the rising star of British politics, has humble origins. Son of a bus driver from now notorious Rochdale, Javid will tick all the boxes for a success story. He left a lucrative job in the finance sector to pursue a career in politics. Prime Minister David Cameron may be predicting the future of Javid,…

  • A Muslim scholar with a passion for Sanskrit

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    In downtown Worli, it is common to hear the strange greeting of ‘Assalamu-Alaykum, Guruji’ whenever an 80-year-old Muslim man steps out of his modest home.He is none other than renowned Sanskrit scholar Pandit Gulam Dastagir, who over six decades has impressed the Shankaracharyas, late prime minister Indira Gandhi, RSS leaders and Islamic scholars, all with…

  • PROFILE: Sushma Swara

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    Ranjana Narayan profiles India’s new Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Sushma Swaraj -Making a quiet statement, but no interviews please! She has already paid a visit to five key neighbours in the nearly three months she has been in the ministry, has interacted personally or on phone with dozens of counterparts worldwide, keeps on top of…

  • Thank You Britain!

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    Anjana Parikh   The journey from Bihar to Britain has been a “very” long one but her grit, determination and self-belief has proved that nothing is impossible. Dame Asha Khemka and husband Shankar   Mrs Asha Khemka, who was recently honoured with the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by her Majesty,…

  • PROFILE GALLERY – Kareena Kapoor

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    Kareena Kapoor is a true professional in Bollywood. The gorgeous Kareena Kapoor, who will next be seen in “Singham Returns”, is showing thorough professionalism towards the project. According to sources, the actress recently was not keeping well and was down with viral fever. But since the shooting of “Singham Returns” was to commence from Thursday at…

  • It’s Our World

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    Her poem  It’s Our World bagged the first prize in under 8 category and runner-up in the overall poetry competition– a part of David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation’s (DSWF) Art for Survival programme. Iona Mandal, the winner of David Shepherd Foundation Award, with David Shepherd, artist and conservationist and television presenter Steve Leonard Held recently at…

  • Music runs in his veins

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    Anjana Parikh If Duke Orsino, one of the characters in William Shakespeare’s play ‘Twelfth Night’ felt ‘If music be the food of love, play on…….’, then for Rakesh Joshi, pure music is an easy medium to connect to human spirituality and the Supreme Power. Based in Ashton-U-Lyne, Joshi who teaches Indian music and Hindustani vocal…

  • Age is not a barrier

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    Friends call her the ‘global citizen’. She hikes, plays badminton and learns new things with the same zeal and enthusiasm as a 16-year-old girl. Meet 68-year-old Dr Shantha Joseph, whose passion for learning and trying out new things–be it sports or language–is in abundance. “I’ve seen from a very close quarter how life changes within no time,…

  • Profile – Nisha Pahuja

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    Natalia Ningthoujam talks to Nisha Pahuja on her new film India release ‘The World Before Her’. The acclaimed film-maker says the Delhi gang-rape was turning point in her career India-born Canadian filmmaker Nisha Pahuja, known for her 2012 documentary “The World Before Her”, was asked to try the Indian market two years ago, but didn’t show much excitement…

  • ‘I’m driven by passion’

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    Anjana Parikh Sarvani Yadavalli, an engineering graduate from BITS, Pilani and an ICCR Empanelled artist in the field of Kuchipudi dance, started to learn Kuchipudi, a classical dance form of Andhra Pradesh from  great gurus like Padmasri SobhaNaidu, Smt Seetha Nagajothy and P Nagajothy, Sh. Vedantam Radheyshyam and Rajaram garu who marked their impression in Kuchipudi dance form. Honored…

  • Gujarat’s first woman CM

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    Some 25 years ago, without a second thought, a woman school teacher plunged into the Narmada river and rescued two young girl students who were drowning. The teacher was 47 years old then. Today, at age 73, Anandiben Patel is all set to become Gujarat’s next and first woman chief minister, succeeding Narendra Modi. Both…

  • ‘Kathak dance is my soul’

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    Kajal Sharma performing at the 75 birthday celebration of her guru, Padma Vibhushan Pt.Birju Maharaj, at Kamani Auditorium in New Delhi. Photo credit: Ashwini Chopra I was introduced to Kathak at a very tender age.  At the tender age of 7 I met Pt.Birju Maharaj in New Delhi where he was teaching his class at…

  • Creator of the Modi brand

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    With the BJP registering a thumping victory in the general election, significant credit goes to the party’s online campaign to tap the general psyche by connecting with millions of youngsters. Vikas Pandey, a 30-year-old software architect, headed the social media campaigns like “I Support Namo” on Facebook and Twitter, as a volunteer for the Rashtriya…

  • BIG INTERVIEW – Kangana Ranaut

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    Her performance in her latest movies like “Queen” and “Revolver Rani” has earned Kangana Ranaut the epithet of being Bollywood’s ‘rani’. She says she has been receiving respect and acknowledgment for her work like never before. “I feel like this is a beautiful time of my life. I’ve never been respected or treated the way…

  • Amit Shah- The King Maker

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    Mohit Dubey profiles Amit Shah; the brain behind Modi’s victory in Uttar Pradesh Less than a year ago, when Amit Shah, BJP general secretary and possibly the closest political associate of Narendra Modi, came to Lucknow, the first thing he did was to head for a doctor. An upset stomach and high fever meant the…