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  • Sufism, Mysticism and the art of Qawwali - An interview with Kiran Rana
    In this Chaitime, we talk to Sufi Murshid (Guide) Kiran Rana about sufism, mysticism and the art of Qawwali, which is a musical rendition of Sufi poetry.
    Kiran Rana and his group will be performing live at The Center SF, 548 Fillmore St, San Francisco, CA 94117, on Saturday, February 25, 2017 Saturday from 3 pm to 6 pm (gate opens at 2). The entry to this event is free and it is being organized by the Hindi Urdu Sufi Poetry Meetup group.
    Hindi Urdu Sufi Poetry group is an active meetup group in San Francisco. This group was started by Mahendre Kutare, a San Francisco based engineer and a poet, as an experiment to bring together like minded people to read, explore and spread the beauty, love, mystic and spirituality expressed in Hindi, Urdu and Sufi Poems and Literature. The group is now more than 250 people strong and is growing.
    Kiran Rana was born and raised in India. He became dissatisfied at an early age with traditional responses that emphasized acceptance of scriptures or the elevation of one faith/teaching over another. After finishing his college, he traveled to the west in search of enlightenment. He had his first Sufi training from Fazal Inayat-Khan at Four Winds in England. For the past 40 years, Kiran Rana has been deeply engaged with Sufism. At the Bay Dervish center in Alameda, he and his wife Jeanne share traditional and new approaches to the inner life, love, creativity and awakening. Kiran can be reached at [email protected].
    1 hr 3 min
  • Sankara Eye Foundation Dandia 2016 - Dandia For A Cause, Dandia With Style!
    In this show we talk to Sankara Eye Foundation co-founders K. Sridharan and Murali Krishnamurthy about the Spirit of SEF Dandia: the joy, the smiles, the colors, the style - all culminating into a larger than life cause of Eradicating curable blindness in India
    Tickets: http://giftofvision.org/sef-dandia-2016?SID=fb
    More than 40 million people in India suffer from some kind of blindness. Of those, 12 million are totally blind, which means ¼th of the world’s blind population resides in India. These are incredibly large numbers.
    Urged by their uncle Late Sri. P. Balasubramaniam, who was a longtime friend and associate of the Sankara Movement, brothers, Murali and Sridharan initiated Sankara Eye Foundation in USA in the year 1998. Since then their progress has been phenomenal. Sankara Eye Foundation is entirely run by volunteers and works in multiple ways to make Sankara’s mission towards eradicating preventable blindness a reality.
    More information about SEF can be found at: www.giftofvision.org
    1 hr 1 min
  • Creative Humanism - An Interview with Dr Vikas Amte and Gautam Karajgi about Anandwan
    In this show we are privileged to have Dr. Vikas Amte, son of late Sh. Baba Amte. Baba Amte setup Anandwan in 1951 to help patients of leprosy on the outskirts of Warora in Chandrapur district in Maharashtra. He transformed a barren piece of land into an oasis which today shelters about 2500 people with severe disabilities, leprosy survivors, and other destitute people who are looking for a better life.
    Dr. Vikas Amte along with Mr. Gautam Karajgi are travelling to the USA to spread awareness about the excellent work done by the residents of the Anandwan, and tell the world the story of success and enterprise of the people who were once forgotten by all. These people not only changed their own lives but now provide a model which can be used to transform rural India, as well as the lives of other downtrodden people, so that they can move from being forgotten to being indispensable.
    Dr. Amte will turn 70 years old next month and his life story is intertwined with the history of independent India and one of the biggest social enterprise to cure, and rehabilitate countless people suffering from leprosy. This is also story of a tireless quest for those who lost their beauty for no fault of their own but they prevailed to create something beautiful and share it with the world.
    Dr. Amte and Gautam are here in USA to accept an award for the “most innovative project at the village level” from the American association of energy engineers as well as spread their vision of “smart Villages.
    More information about Anandwan can be found at www.anandwan.in.
    1 hr 12 min
  • Tarkash - Celebrating Javed Akhtar’s Poetry and his Popular Lyrics
    In this Chaitime, we celebrate the genius of famous Hindi/Urdu poet and lyricist, Javed Akhtar. We try to relive his life and struggles through his own autobiography and collection of his poems - Tarkash. We weave this with some of the most popular Hindi movie songs penned by him.
    Javed Akhtar is a poet, lyricist and scriptwriter. Some of his most successful work was done in the late 1970s and 1980s with Salim Khan as half of the script-writing duo credited as Salim-Javed. Akhtar continues to be a prominent figure in Bollywood and is one of the most popular and sought-after lyricists.
    Javed Akhtar was awarded the Padma Shri award by the Government of India in 1999 and received the Padma Bhushan in 2007. Akhtar has also won the Filmfare Award fourteen times, seven times for Best Script, and eight times for Best Lyrics for Ek Ladki Ko Dekha... in 1942-A Love Story, Ghar Se Nikalte Hi... for Papa Kahte Hain, Sandese Aate Hain.... for Border, Panchhi Nadiyan Pawan Ke Jhonke... for Refugee, Radha Kaise Na Jale for Lagaan, Kal Ho Na Ho for Kal Ho Na Ho, Tere Liye... for Veer-Zaara and Jashn-e-Bahara for Jodhaa Akbar.
    Akhtar has won the National Award five times. In 1996 he won for Best Lyricist for the film Saaz and in 1997 he won the National Award for Border. He again won the National Award in 1998 for Godmother. In 2000 he again won the National Award for the song Panchhi Nadiyan Pawan Ke Jonke... from the film Refugee and in 2001 for Radha Kaise Na Jale from Lagaan.
    He has won the 1995 and 1997 Screen Videocon Awards. He also won first Zee Award for Best Lyricist for Sandese Aate Hain from the film Border. He was awarded a Videocon Screen award as well as a Lux Zee Cine award for Panchhi Nadiyan Pawan Ke Jhonke... for Refugee.
    In 2001 Akhtar received the National Integration Award from the All India Anti-Terrorist Association and the Avadh Ratan from the U.P. Government. He also won the 2003 Hakim Khan Sur Sammaan Award from the Maharana Mewar Foundation, Udaipur.
    1 hr 1 min
  • Chaitime with Author and Journalist Zahir Janmohamed
    In this Chaitime, we talk to author and journalist Zahir Janmohamed. He went to India for the first time in 2002 to Gujarat, India and found himself in the midst of one of the worst incidents of communal violence. He was 25 years old then, and this experience changed his worldview forever and motivated him to work in politics, human rights and now as a journalist and author.
    Zahir Janmohamed is based in Portland, Oregon and Ahmedabad, India. He is currently writing a book about the largest ghetto of Muslims in India, an area known as Juhapura.
    He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, where he was the inaugural co-recipient of the Anne Cox Chambers fellowship for long-form journalism, as well as from the Mesa Refuge, the Djerassi Resident Arts Program, the Norman Mailer Center, and the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto.
    His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Guernica, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Newsweek, The Boston Review, The Guardian, Scroll India, and many other publications.At the moment, he is a regular contributor to The Economic Times.
    Prior to working on his book, he spent a decade working in politics. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as the Advocacy Director for Amnesty International where he managed the organization’s lobbying, public outreach, and media work on the Middle East and North Africa. While at Amnesty International, he appeared on CNN, Fox News, BBC, NPR, and Al Jazeera. He has briefed senior officials at the White House and the State Department and authored numerous Congressional resolutions. In 2009, he was asked to testify before the US Congress about human rights abuses in the UAE. As a result, he was given an award by the UN for his commitment to human rights.
    58 min
  • Ishq Anokha - An Intimate Interview with Kailash Kher
    In this Chaitime show, we talk to one of the most popular Indian singers Kailash Kher, and Dr. Vijay Tiwari, founder of Daya Sumitra Educational Society Inc(DEST).
    Kailash Kher is not only one of the most loved Indian artists internationally, but he is also respected for his modest and inspiring lifestyle. He is the founder of famous band Kailasa, which has produced many smash hit albums.
    Kailash Kher is visiting the San Francisco Bay Area on Aug 21st, 2016 as part of his Ishq Anokha World tour. This is one of those unique shows where 100% of the proceeds will go to fund rural kids in India for their books, uniform, and tuition as part of the school run by DEST. Tickets for the show are available at sulekha.com/kailash or TicketHungama.com/Kailash.
    In this intimate interview conducted on phone, Kailash Kher talks about value of education, his love for the Bay Area, achievements of Indian diaspora in USA, his difficult childhood, his struggles and inspiration, his band Kailasa, his various socio-political activities which he promotes through his music, his role as a parent and a message to youth.
    This interview is in Hindi and is a treat for all the Hindi lovers.
    1 hr 2 min
  • Noises Off : Naatak’s upcoming Comedy in Hindi
    In this Chaitime show, we talk with Naatak’s team about their upcoming comedy Noises off which is being dubbed as one of the most outrageous comedy ever staged. The play is a Hindi adaptation of the award winning comedy by Michael Frayn.
    We talk to the director of the play Harish Sunderam Agastya and actors, Navjoyti Sharma and Niranjan Page about the play. Listen to this fun interview to get an insight into what is in store for the audience in this laugh riot.
    The details about the showtimes and tickets can be found on Naatak’s website: www.naatak.org
    Naatak, a 501©(3) registered non-profit, is a theater company in the San Francisco bay area, dedicated to producing intelligent and entertaining plays. Started in 1995 by students at the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford University, Naatak is now the most prominent and largest Indian theater company in the United States, having performed continuously over 20 years. In those two decades, our plays have been watched by tens of thousands. Our members – more than 750 over two decades – are drawn primarily from the IT industry in Silicon Valley, so is our audience.
    1 hr 2 min
  • Art - The upcoming play by CalAA
    In this ChaiTime we talk to director Aditya Kulkarni, and actors Abhay Pranajape and Avadhoot Bhambare about the CalAA’s 42nd production, “Art”. The play was originally written in French by Yasmine Reza and was adapted by Aditya Kulkarni for this production. Following are the timings for this play and tickets are available on www.calaaonline.com.
    Sunday, April 10th, 2:00pm@Cubberley Theater, Palo Alto
    Sunday, April 16th, 2:00pm@Front Row Theater, San Ramon
    CalAA-California Arts Association is a fourteen-year-old organization founded by San Francisco Bay Area drama enthusiasts with a mission to produce and preserve creative performing arts. It aims at promoting experimentation while maintaining high quality.
    CalAA is a ‘not-for-profit’ organization, which financially supports itself through net proceeds from its events. The actors and actresses, directors, producers, and all other talent come from the local volunteers who donate their time for CalAA. CalAA has major events planned around the year covering Dramas, Music and Dance programs, Video Screening of unique Movies and Teleplays, Weekly TV Show, Workshops and Seminars and a popular platform ‘CalAAnand’ for the enthusiasts within CalAA to present programs on a smaller scale
    CalAA has received accolades from the discerning audience for highly creative and top quality programs and has established itself in culturally active San Francisco Bay Area in very short period of time. CalAA is always looking for new talent and volunteers as well as suggestions for improvements.
    55 min

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ChaiTime Radio is a weekly Stanford-based radio show celebrating global arts, literature, music, film, and culture. With more than 2.13 million streams across 100+ countries, the program reaches a worldwide audience through KZSU, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, and SoundCloud. Over the years, ChaiTime has featured an extraordinary range of artists, thought leaders, musicians, authors, social reformers, and academics, including Begum Parveen Sultana, Javed Akhtar, Padma Shri Prahlad Singh Tipaniya, Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, Anna Hazare, Suresh Wadkar, Kailash Kher, Mahesh Kale, Shaan, Rajdeep Sardesai, and numerous distinguished scholars from Stanford University and the University of California system.

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