New York, N.Y. 2012: Luce Leaders, Luce Awards, Million Dollar P.R. Packages, work in India, Afghanistan, Haiti – as well as Africa and the Americas. Help us end the year! Personal NoteWith an all-volunteer staff, donated space, free social media, and Global Advisers helping us fulfill our mission of Supporting Young Global Leadership, our foundation [...]
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Skadden Hosts 12th Annual J. Luce Foundation Year End Celebration
The James Jay Dudley Luce Foundation, Inc. Invites you to our 12th Annual Year-End Champagne Reception Hosted by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP With Orphans International Worldwide, Inc. In support of our communications platform The Stewardship Report on Connecting Goodness In Honor of Luce Leaders in their Teens Isaac J. Kassin, J. Luce Foundation [...]
A “Gandhi” for our Age: Indian Film Chittagong
New York, N.Y. Using visual cues from the paintings of Caravaggio, Indian filmmaker Bedabrata Pain has produced a triumphant film, Chittagong, that screened in New York last week. It is based upon a little-known episode leading to Indian Independence: a group of schoolboys who, with the help of their teacher, temporarily toppled the British a decade before [...]
Indian Film Festival Thrills New York – Again
New York, N.Y. Over fifty Indian features, documentaries and short films screened over Memorial Day Weekend as the 12th Annual New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) played at the Tribeca Cinemas and NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Presented by the Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC), the Festival opened with the world premiere red carpet [...]
New York Indian Film Festival 2012 Premieres
Aseem Chhabra, director of the New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) with Aroon Shivdasani, founder/director of the Indo-American Arts Council. Photo courtesy of Archana Desai. New York, N.Y. The 12th Annual New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) played over Memorial Day Weekend at the Tribeca Cinemas and NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. Presented by the [...]
Jim Luce on the Indo-American Arts Council
Jim Luce first met Aroon Shivdasani, founder of the Indo-American Arts Council (IAAC), in 2010. Impressed, he profiled her immediately in The Huffington Post. IAAC sponsors a buffet of cultural events including the New York Indian-American Film Festival. Meet the Amazing Aroon Shivdasani of NYC’s Indo-American Arts Council Contemporary Indian Art Kicks off During Asian Contemporary Art Week Indo-American [...]
Eleventh Annual New York Indian Film Festival Triumphant!
New York, NY. I enjoyed this year’s Indian Film Festival so much! Opening Night I saw the Disney-backed film Do Dooni Chaar, directed by Habib Faisal, then Iti Mrinalini, directed by the talented Aparna Sen, and finally the Tagore novel set to film, Nauka Dubi, directed by Rituparno Ghosh. And I am pleased to announce [...]
Extremist Threat Explored Think Tank at NY Indian Consulate
New York, NY. Jeff M. Smith, a Kraemer Strategy Fellow at Washington’s American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC), recently addressed a packed dining room of New York’s Indian Consulate off Fifth Avenue this week, speaking on Indo-American, -Pakistani and -Sino relations, but focusing most on the growing threat of extremism in South Asia. The mostly Indian-American [...]
