Posts Tagged ‘Midnight’s Children’

M.I.A. and Salman Rushdie on The Hour

In Art, fame, Hip Hop, History, india, Internet, Music, News, Opinion, pakistan, Politics, religion, TV, War on 26 May 2009 tagged Academy Award, Arular, Bono, CBC, George Stroumboulopoulos, Gwen Stefani, Jay-Z, Kala, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, M.I.A., Marc Jacobs, Midnight's Children, Oscar, Paris Hilton, Politics, Salman Rushdie, Sri Lanka, T.I., The Enchantress of Florence, The Ground Beneath Her Feet, The Hour, The Satanic Verses, Three 6 Mafia, U2 with no comments

During my first quarter at UC Santa Cruz I wrote my final paper for an Indian Diaspora Through Film course on M.I.A. (just before Arular was released) and Salman Rushdie as examples of diasporic art and its impact on a larger society. Seeing each of them interviewed by George Stroumboulopoulos a year apart reminded me [...]