There are only two songs that, when they play over the Desilicious speakers, I toss my drink aside (and I NEVER waste a Ciroc coconut soda), throw on my invisible ghungroo and jump on the center box to bust out the film’s exact choreography in its entirety. One of those songs is Madhuri Dixit’s “Aaja Nachle.” From the first tinkle of payal, this song gets all the queens excited to

Welcome to Thumka Thursdays, a new weekly feature on Pop Kulcha that will, you guessed it, be all about sexy item numbers. We’ll dissect the talent, music, choreo, fashion and everything that makes the song fabulous or abhorrent. Here we go. For week one we’ve chosen a song that elicits a hip swing from even the most cantankerous straight unclejis.”Beedi” from Vishal Bhardwaj’s Omkara is a serious storm of a

Get prepped for our first Halloween costume party in over 5 years. We’re thrilled to be holding another Bollywood Carnaval party, featuring music by Ashu Rai and DJ Harsh and visuals by Neeraj, and we’ll be giving away $200 cash to the best costume. Some of you “old-timers” will surely remember past Desilicious Halloween parties and some of our crowd’s most creative costumes! And, to get ready for Halloween, be

Indo-American Arts Council in collaboration with Sholay Productions and SALGA present GHALIB SHIRAZ DHALLA’s Book Launch, Reading, Signing and Reception for THE TWO KRISHNAS “Brilliant…exquisite, drenched in emotion and timely.” –Lisa See (Snow Flower and the Secret Fan) “Filled with unexpected turns and beauty…heart wrenching.”-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (The Palace of Illusions) “A masterfully written novel.”-Bapsi Sidhwa (Water) “A classic tale of tragic, forbidden love.”-Christopher Rice (The Moonlit Earth) “Riveting…too honest

Read this touching coming out story , “Thank you Mufti Sahab, for helping me out of the closet”, by a queer Pakistani that was published in the Express Tribune, a local affiliate to International Herald Tribune group.

Celebrate Navatri and Diwali this Saturday with The Anamika-Navatman Project and Lunar Celebrations: Navaratri/Diwali 2011! as they celebrate their one year anniversary. There will be food, dancing, drinks and mingling – along instructions on how to use dandiyas. The festivities will take place this Saturday, October 8th, 2011 at 7:00PM at the Alvin Ailey: The Joan Weill Center for Dance, 405 W 55th Street at 9th avenue in NYC. Tickets

Desipina & Co. presents “Barriers” a play set in 2002 that deals with a pan-Asian Muslim family living in New Jersey and dealing with the loss of their eldest son in the World Trade Center tragedy and the backlash of 9/11. Sholay Events has a special discount code for $10 tix for the Thursday 9/8 show and you can purchase tickets here. Make sure to punch in PREVIEW at checkout.

As we prepare for our next Sholay Afterwork Party on August 18th at Vlada, we recently conducted a short Q&A with APICHA’s Daniel Huang: When you join us at our AfterWork Mixer on August 18th, you’ll have an opportunity to get free and confidential testing for HIV and other STI’s thanks to APICHA (The Asian & Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS). We spoke with peer counselor Daniel Huang about the