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

Posted: October 11th, 2011

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.

Posted: October 10th, 2011

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

Posted: October 5th, 2011

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.

Posted: September 7th, 2011

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

Posted: August 14th, 2011

Back by popular demand…join us on Thursday, August 18th for AfterWork summer cocktails at Hell’s Kitchen hot spot, Vlada. Ashu Rai will be serving up your favorite Bolly Lounge beats. Complimentary nibbles and chilled drink specials will be served! Have You Done It Lately? Yes, you read right. Have you been testing for HIV & STIs Lately? *78% of new HIV diagnoses were among men. *43% were among men who

Posted: August 7th, 2011

Before coming out to Desilicious White Party at Pachita on July 30, make sure to check out Dhoonya Dance, the Bollywood dance school that has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CBS, Dr. Oz, and the USA Network series Royal Pains. The team will be organizing an outdoor Bollywood flash mob at 6:30 pm in Bowling Green Park (Broadway and Whitehall St) across the street from Battery Park. The timing

Posted: July 23rd, 2011

We definitely need to invite these boys to Desilicious soon! [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTstIEr4tDw&w=560]

Posted: July 23rd, 2011