Dear Friends:
I am heading to India to Bollywood and the Kolkata
Book Fair. As most of you know, Rattapallax is one of
the main sponsors of the US Delegation to the 2008
Kolkata Book Fair (Jan. 30 to Feb. 10) -- the largest
book fair in the world with an annual attendance of
2.8 million people.
We have a remarkable group of poets, writers, editors,
translators and publisher going with us. The
delegation is YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA, BHARATI MUKHERJEE,
CAROLYN FORCHE, BOB HOLMAN, JOY HARJO, CHRISTOPHER
MERRILL, NATHALIE HANDAL, ED PAVLIC, GOUTAM DATA, RAM
DEVINENI, CATHERINE FLETCHER, DANTE MICHEAUX, and
IDRA NOVEY.
With the support of CLMP, we gathered and shipped over
10,000 books to be sold and displayed at the book
fair. They represent the diversity of independent
literary publishing in the USA. Special thanks to the
National Endowment for the Arts and Wyeth, Inc for
funding some of the delegation costs. More information
at http://www.uskle.org
I am also going to Mumbai (Bombay) with Frantisek
Ballerini, a reporter with two of Brazil’s largest
newspapers, “O Estado de S.Paulo” and “Jornal da
Tarde”, (http://www.estado.com.br) which have about
one million readers per day. The newspapers are doing
a special focus on the Indian film industry. This
will be the first time that a Brazilian newspaper is
dedicating an entire week to Indian entertainment. We
plan to attend the Pune Film Festival, Kishore Namith
Kapoor Acting Studio, Whistling Woods Film School,
Mukta Arts Studios, YashRaj and Adlabs studios. We
will be interviewing leading Indian actors, producers,
directors, music directors, and industry leaders like
Amit Khanna, President of Film & Television Producers
Guild of India and head of Reliance entertainment, and
producer Mahesh Bhatt. The articles will correspond
with the 2nd Annual Bollywood and Indian Film Festival
at Cinemateca (Sao Paulo) in February 2008. More
information at http://www.bollywoodbrasil.com
Cheers
Ram Devineni
Producer & Publisher
http://www.rattapallax.com
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