Check out the write-up on Desilicious and Sholay Productions in today’s Brooklyn Paper in anticipation of our Freedom Fling this Saturday at Dekalb Market in Brooklyn. It’s been 4 years since our last venture across the bridge for Desilicious and we’re looking forward to it! Make sure to get there early for a $10 reduced admission, tasty snacks, beer, wine and sangria and an amazing vibe!

Our own Ashu Rai will be a guest star tonight at the Magnet Theater. Hosted by Andrew Fafoutakis, each week your friends of of Dorothy come out and come together for a night of comedy on the Magnet Theater stage. Every show hosts a rotating cast of improv all-stars and fresh faces. Tonight, the actors will present an evening of improv based on short stories written by Ashu. The show

We have been horrified and saddened by the events from this past Sunday. Our thoughts and prayers are with our Sikh brothers and sisters and we offer our deepest condolences to those who’ve lost loved ones. In the shadow of this hateful act, it has been heartening to witness the outpouring of support from around the world during these past few days. A vigil will be held this evening at

Don’t miss a special exhibit by the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC ) – “Her Stories: Fifteen Years of the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective”, on view at the Queens Museum of Art from August 11th, 2012 to October 7th, 2012. In celebration of our 15th anniversary, Her Stories is a retrospective look at SAWCC’s past and present, featuring the creative works of over a hundred diasporic South Asian

There have been two major stories out of India these past few days – the massive power failures affecting close to half of the country’s population and Sherlyn Chopra! In case you haven’t heard, it was announced that Bollywood starlet Sherlyn Chopra would be the first Indian female to pose nude for Playboy magazine. According to her IMDB page, Ms. Chopra was in “Dil Bole Hadippa” and an episode of

Don’t miss next week’s headliner performance by our good friend and extremely funny man Vidur Kapur, who’s had quite an eventful year! His appearance on India’s reality show “Sach Ka Saamna” aired this past April and he’s just taped a political standup special for Showtime with Pauly Shore, which will air this October. He’ll be talking about these experiences, the election, returning to the corporate world and many other topics

“Pushpa, I hate tears” was one of his signature lines from “Aradhana”. He would want us to remember him smiling, dancing, romancing and singing. He was the first true superstar of Bollywood films. He made us laugh and he made us cry inconsolably in “Anand”. His songs still resonate especially when one is melancholic. “Yeh shaam mastani, madhosh kiye jaye” (this playful evening is getting me drunk) or “Zindagi, kaise