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...come to hang out, eat and talk, not just look at the art and leave." Items on display aren't limited to fine art. The current show, "Her Work Is Never Done," runs until March 20 (and again from March 26 to April 17) and features hats from milliner Shilpa Chavan, home products from graphic designer Divya Thakur and animated films by award-winning director Gitanjali Rao. "People still think of Indian art in terms of [venerable painter] M.F. Husain. We want to educate them about other types of art," adds Mehta. (See 25 authentic Asian experiences...
...housemate on the reality-TV show Big Brother. Goody endeared and appalled with her ignorance--she wondered who "Heinzstein" might be and thought Saddam Hussein was a boxer. Her return to the Big Brother house in 2007 nearly finished her career after she clashed with Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty amid accusations of racism...
...being famous. Her joyfully lowbrow chatter struck a chord with the British public in 2002 when she appeared on the TV reality show Big Brother. Five years later, when Goody graduated to Celebrity Big Brother, Britons were less comfortable seeing themselves reflected in her instinctive hostility toward Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty, the slinky, bejeweled personification of newly confident India. (Read TIME's TV blog, Tuned...
...social workers from New Zealand, Thai anthropologists and American law professors. Feminist activists traded business cards with Islamic scholars. U.N. officials attended lectures parsing Koranic verses. Catholic and Jewish progressives shared their strategies for taking on hide-bound religious authorities. "Being here, you feel we are not alone," says Shilpa Kashelkar Nipunge, an Indian NGO worker says. "We're all together in this, and it gives us the power in this struggle." (See pictures of Malaysia...
...bottom of the taste pyramid. Consider the huge popularity of reality TV, which is cheap to produce and capable of provoking controversy that hooks big audiences. Controversy is, of course, hard to control. Channel 4's last run of Celebrity Big Brother sparked riots in India after Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was subjected to racial abuse from fellow contestants...