Male storm

Currently, young Gotham is the anchor and on-site reporter of the Los Angeles-based television networkChannel One and his style of presenting news and current affairs have young audiences glued to their seats. He uses his famous father8217;s style of merging the present and the past and recently described John Glenn8217;s return to space as a quot;latter-day Icarusquot; and the Super Bowl playoff as a continuation of a tradition of quot;the warrior impulsequot; found in North America from the day8217;s of the Mayan empire! But television is only one of his pursuits. He has a finger in several pies. A few years ago he published his first novel Child of the Dawn, a callow parable of an Indian orphan8217;s search for wisdom. The same New Age press that brought to this world his father8217;s best seller The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success published the book. However, Gotham is fast to point out that that venture was a quick capitalisation of his pater8217;s name. quot;I am not really New Age. What I call spirituality for the next generation is full of the sacred but it8217;s also got a lot of the profane.quot; Another venture of his underlines that point.It8217;s a comic book superhero called the Bulletproof Monk who is a 20-year-old Hong Kong exile in San Francisco whose path to inner peace is strewn with casualties of his martial artistry. quot;It8217;s first and foremost action-adventure, but it has this really cool element of self-discovery as well.quot; Inspired no doubt by the image of another superhero, Amitabh Bachchan.

When Gotham was 15, his father took him to the Gloved One8217;s Neverland ranch where he became one of the many kids who hung out with Jackson and on occasion slept on the same bed with him. quot;We would play video games, order pizza, eat candy and just act nuts till five in the morning and then fall asleep on the bed or floor, whateverquot;. He quickly defends Jackson over the charge of sexual impropriety with minors, quot;I never saw anything, felt awkward or anything.quot; Jackson is one of Gotham8217;s many admirers and said in an interview, quot;I knew when I first met Gotham that he was a spiritual godsend capable of inspiring and empowering the youth of thisgeneration!quot; High praise indeed for this mini-guru who currently is working on three screenplays, a second novel and keeps making famous and powerful friends, paving his path for his enlightenment.

Post colonial rewrite

Ibrahim Alkazi is well known for his legendary visual eye and theatrical mastery. Now in New York an exhibition showcasing his collection of over 40,000 photographs of South Asia, many of which record some of the earliest photographs taken in India in the last century, is creating a stir at a gallery in Chelsea. The exhibition titled Re-orientations: Photography From South Asia, 1845 -19208216; is an amazing depiction of how the then-new medium was used to promote and propagate Imperialistic interests and shape the image of India in the western world, the effects of which still stunt Indian imagery to this day. Photographs on display show the pomp and splendour of India8217;s aristocracy as well as its abject poverty. Many photographs were the result of the then-budding sciences ofethnography and anthropology which at the time stemmed from a distinct belief in the superiority of the white race and showed the natives to be lesser humans in need of civilisation. This unique exhibition attempts to expose this historical fact and in doing so re-examine its effects that last to this day. Effects that are often glibly brushed under the term quot;post-colonial historyquot;.

Shahjehan Riz

That CNN International8217;s star anchor Riz Khan is moving up in Atlanta society is underlined by the news that he has moved into his new home in a plush suburb. Friends who have visited the place say it8217;s been done in incredible good taste and is almost palace-like, in that it has some 15 rooms and all the amenities fitting a star of his stature. Oh, it8217;s been dubbed quot;Riz Mahalquot;, a kind of Taj built by Riz for the greatest love in his life. Who8217;s that you ask? Why, it8217;s Riz of course!

Riyad Wadia, avant garde film-maker, is currently at home in New York.