Chuckle Brothers!
Bengali Brothers hit the Comedy High Notes on YouTube
MEET brothers Ali and Shaheen - YouTube's newest breed of Asian comedians. Armed with a camera, the duo's comedy sketches and video rants about the Bengali culture have earned them a...
Spreading the Dhol Beat
Johnny Kalsi on his new album 'Drums & Roses'THEY are the biggest pioneers of the Dhol, and this month Johnny Kalsi and Co of the Dhol Foundation release their latest album 'Drums & Roses'. We spoke to Johnny to...
I’m NOT the King of Bollywood’
Akshay Kumar talks Singh is Kinng & Snoop DoggAkshay Kumar is definitive Bollywood. The looks, the films, the style – he has it all. But not enough though to be hailed as the ‘King of Bollywood’. It’s a phrase...
Ammo Talwar Q&A with Diztortion on Music and his Surinamese Heritage
HOMELANDS is a year long series of global tours, artistic residencies and insights that
documents musicians visiting their roots, learning about where they came from and creating something new amid their jourrney of self discovery.
In this third episode of the...
Interview with WriteNow Ambassador Abir Mukherjee – A Rising Author
To celebrate the launch of Penguin Random House's WriteNow, we sat down with one of literature's most promising new authors, Abir Mukherjee. As a British Asian author himself, Abir is a staunch supporter of the WriteNow scheme which encourages submissions...
Carry on Laughing
Paul Chowdhry returns to tickle us sillyComedian Paul Chowdhry is fast becoming a name on the UK comedy circuit. Having faced crowds at Glastonbury and the Edinburgh Festival, he returns to Birmingham this month for his ‘Back by Demand’...
Interview With British Pakistani Author Emma-Jane Smith-Barton
Penguin’s WriteNow competition is right around the corner. The competition calls on writers from minority backgrounds to submit their manuscripts in the hopes of receiving editorial help and publication.
Last year, 12 lucky writers were chosen for the programme, one...
Asian Today Exclusive: Sonakshi Sinha
What is Akira about?
Akira is a really cool action thriller, Murugadoss style. It’s a really interesting story about a girl who does not back off when she’s pushed into a corner, how she fights back and how she comes...
‘Music is my passion, my soul’
Asian star Manjit on the joys of MusicInfused with soulful and diverse influences from artists such as India Arie, Tracey Chapman, Sade and Lata Mangheskar – Manjit, a talented singer songwriter, recently released her latest EP – ‘the acoustic...
Sartaj Garewal: Investment Banking to Acting in hit US Teen drama
Brit actor talks to The Asian Today
BORN and raised in Swindon, Wiltshire, Sartaj Garewal went from being an investment banker to actor. Quite a career change you would think, but not for Sartaj.
Since making the move he’s...