Shift Happens.Education & Technology.Wake Up!
Video posted on Thursday, August 14, 2008
Be prepared! The world has been changing exponentially and will continue to do so. Will you keep up? Are we preparing our children? This video demonstrates the dramatic change in demographics and how the growth in technology and information will impact us now and in the future.
Indian Opera Comes to California
Video posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008
A popular Indian style rural opera called Nautanki was recently staged at a theater in California’s high-tech Silicon Valley. It was the retelling of a decades old popular Indian opera Sultana Daku. VOA’s Savita Patel was on hand for one of the performances. Jim Bertel narrates.
Indian Art Renaissance
Video posted on Thursday, March 20, 2008
Sky rocketing Indian art prices have been making headlines recently with artists like Tyeb Mehta and Syed Haider Raza’s works selling for millions of dollars. But its not just the million dollars artists attracting attention at the auction houses. Samira Nanda reports.
DJ Rekha Presents Basement Bhangra
Video posted on Friday, February 29, 2008
DJ Rekha is a London-born musician who has imported her own blend of contemporary bhangra music to the United States since the early 1990s. Her first album, “DJ Rekha Presents Basement Bhangra,” fuses the South Asian genre of bhangra music with international hip-hop and drum beats. For an introduction, DJ Rekha was interviewed on CNN [...]
Delhi’s deadly pollution
Video posted on Thursday, November 29, 2007
The Indian capital of Delhi is so heavily polluted that inhaling the city air is equivalent to smoking 20 cigarettes per day.
The country’s health professionals warn the health of its citizens is at stake if pollution levels are not addressed.
Why fighting Climate change is important to ending poverty
Video posted on Saturday, November 10, 2007
Oxfam campaigner, Rebecca Gowland, talks about the effect climate change is having on poor communities in India and how the UN needs to act now.
Unity In Diversity: India
Video posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007
An amateur documentary by Rudra Bose, exploring the true spirit of India, what it has achieved in its 60 years of independence, and where it needs to improve.