Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsBollywood / divorce / family relationships / First-Person / Indian American / Magical Realism / middle grade / POC / POC author / self discoveryNo Comments
Bollywood takes over in this contemporary, magical middle grade novel about an Indian American girl whose world turns upside down when she involuntarily starts bursting into glamorous song-and-dance routines during everyday life. You know how in Bollywood when people are in love, they sing and dance from the mountaintops? Eleven-year-old ... more >
Publishing Newsart history / Bollywood / creativity / gender / graphic novels / India / Jewish artists / Johnnie Christmas / Leonardo da Vinci / Margaret Atwood / Mona Lisa / silent films1 Comments
The Creativity Bias against Women – A paper written by three researchers at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business shows that in certain work environments, men are perceived to be more creative than women, especially in fields that are more dominated by or associated with male characteristics (e.g. Architecture showed the ... more >
C ReviewsBollywood / Contemporary romance / Harlequin-Presents / India / Marriage-in-Trouble2 Comments
Dear Susanna Carr: The title of your book, Secrets of a Bollywood Marriage, both attracted me and put me off a bit. It signalled a marriage-in-trouble story (a trope I love) but also a Bollywood setting (which I’m starting to get tired of). Nevertheless, I was curious to see what ... more >
Book Reviews / C Reviews / C+ ReviewsBollywood / Contemporary / India / joint review / POC / POC author4 Comments
Dear Ms. Snyder, Kaetrin: I like Beauty and the Beast stories and I enjoy stories set in India – although most of what I have read in that regard has been historical and it’s difficult for me to tell how accurate they were. I’m asked Sunita to review Bollywood and ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / C+ Reviewsactor/actress / Bollywood / conversational review / India / m/m / menage / POC / POC author14 Comments
Janine: About the time we had the discussion of diversity in Harlequin’s romances here at DA, Suleikha Snyder made a couple of thoughtful comments on Twitter, and that got me interested in her volume of two connected stories, a novella called Spice and Smoke. Spice and Smoke is set in ... more >
Film ReviewsBollywood / Friday Film Review / India / POC / romantic comedy50 Comments
Jab We Met (When We Met) (2007) Genre: Romantic Comedy Grade: B “Changing fortunes await wealthy but dejected industrialist Aditya (Shahid Kapoor) when he meets a spirited chatterbox named Geet (Kareena Kapoor) on a train in this breezy romantic comedy from Bollywood director Imtiaz Ali. Nursing a broken heart, Aditya ... more >