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PRESS KIT 2016 OUR VISION

You don’t come to Jio MAMI 18th Mumbai Film Festival with Star to see a film, you come to experience it!

The Jio MAMI 18th Mumbai Film Festival with Star is an inclusive movie feast. We showcase the latest cutting-edge, independent cinema – art house fare alongside genre movies from Bollywood, Hollywood and cult international movies. We offer the best of world cinema to the people of Mumbai and we offer the best of Indian cinema to the world.

The Festival is run by the Mumbai Academy of Moving Image popularly known as MAMI. Jio MAMI with Star is a space where Aamir Khan, Quentin Tarantino, Zhang Yimou and Rajinikanth would all feel equally at home. This is a space where we revel in the sheer pleasure of cinema, the joy it gives us and how much it enhances our lives. The goal is to nurture and ignite a passion for movies.

Jio MAMI with Star is also about helping independent ﬁlmmakers gain the credibility and publicity they justly deserve. The festival provides a forum for talented ﬁlmmakers to be recognized for their work, creativity, and achievements. We want Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star to be shorthand for excellence in cinema. BRAND IDENTITY: FISHING FOR TALENT

For a city with strong roots in cinema, we envisioned for MAMI an identity that would be both inclusive and Indian. The new identity needed to represent the wide array of styles, events and people who are associated with it, as well as the city that it calls home. The new logo, “Fishing for Talent,” perfectly encapsulates that.

Mumbai is a collection of islands, communities, hopes and dreams. Whatever our differences, we put them aside for the movies. MAMI is always looking for fresh talent and in that sense, we are ‘fishing for talent.’ The two fish creates a geometric pattern that forms the Devanagari representation of MAMI in Hindi. The use of the Devanagari script sets us apart from other international film festivals, and the simple geometric forms combined with the use of yellow make it friendly, approachable, but most of all, Indian. An identity we can all rally behind and one we instantly relate to as a representation of Mumbai.

JIO MAMI WITH STAR: FILM CLUB YEAR ROUND

The Jio MAMI Film Club with Star was launched in May with a conversation between Sir Ian McKellen and Amir Khan. We followed that up with Indian premiers of ﬁlms such as Brahman Naman and Google’s India in a Day. MAMI is committed to bring in great ﬁlm content and conversations through the year.

The MAMI FILM CLUB conducts year round events which include ﬁlm screenings, Master classes, Film Appreciation Workshops, Knowledge Bootcamps, Digital Knowledge Series and Special Film Programmes for Children and Young Adults. EXCELLENCE IN CINEMA AWARDS

The Festival, every year, identiﬁes and awards the contribution of great artists in the world of cinema. The ‘Excellence in Cinema Award’ provides a great opportunity to highlight, applaud and promote works of such individuals.

Jio MAMI with Star, in its 18th edition will honor achievements of two such ﬁlm makers who have created memorable ﬁlms over the years.

SAI PARANJPYE

Sai Paranjpye is a prominent screenwriter and director who has been working in India cinema for the last four decades. Sai Paranjpye made a trendsetting impact.

Moving from writing to theatre, television to films, Sai Paranjpye has straddled many mediums. Her children’s stories have fascinated young audiences, her TV serials have become household names and her films have been feted in India and abroad. She has won numerous awards, both National and International for her writing and films. She was conferred with the prestigious Padma Bhushan in 2006. She has served on numerous juries and has been the Chairperson of the Children’s Film Society of India.

She graduated from the National School of Drama and her first job was with AIR, Pune as an announcer, from where she quickly moved to Children’s programming. Over the years, she has written and directed plays in Marathi, Hindi, and English, both for adults and children. Her first feature film “Sparsh” was released in 1980 and went on to win five National Awards. Other films include Chashme Buddoor, Katha, Angootha Chaap, Disha, Papeeha, Saaz and Chakachak. Her TV serials include Ados Pados and Chote Bade. Her Marathi plays include Jaswandi, Sakkhe Shejari, and Albel.

Known for a trademark sense of humor, all her work has dealt with contemporary themes.

JIA ZHANGKE

A pre-eminent ﬁgure among the Sixth Generation of Chinese ﬁlm makers, Zhangke’s primary focus has been on a cinematic representation of his country’s post-Mao and post-globalization cultural history.

His highly distinctive style --- a mix of long-shot, single-take compositions, landscape tableaux, direct sound and blaring pop music --- combined with a humane concern for the working-class and poorer sections of society have elevated Zhangke into a signiﬁcant and politically astute chronicler of modern-day China.

From his first two narrative features (Pickpocket, 1997; Platform, 2000) through to one of his docu-fiction hybrids (24 City, 2008) and up to his most recent films (A Touch of Sin, 2013; Mountains May Depart, 2015), Zhangke has offered a unique perspective on a transitional generation whose commonplace lives evoke universal resonance. JURIES INDIA GOLD

REHA ERDEM HEAD OF JURY

Born in Istanbul, Reha Erdem graduated from the Cinema Department of Paris 8 University. He obtained his M.A. in Plastic Arts at the same University. He made his first feature-length film, Oh Moon in 1989, as a French-Turkish co- production. He made Run for Money in 1999, Mommy, I’m Scared in 2004, Times and Winds in 2006, My Only Sunshine, Turkish-Greek-Bulgarian co-production, in 2008, Kosmos in 2009, Jin in 2012 and Singing Women (2013) are Turkish-French- German co-productions. His latest film, Big Big World (2016) has won the Special Jury Prize in the Orizzonti Section of the Venice Film Festival.

MYCHAEL DANNA

Mychael Danna is an Academy Award-winning Film Composer recognized for his evocative blending of non-western traditions with orchestral and electronic music. He won the 2013 Oscar and Golden Globe for his score for Ang Lee’s Life of Pi and has composed many award-winning scores for his longtime collaborator, Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter, 1997 ; Exotica, 1994). His other noted credits include ﬁlms such as Monsoon Wedding (2001), Antwone Fisher (2002), Being Julia (2004), Capote (2005), Water (2005), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Surf’s Up (2007), 500 Days of Summer (2008), The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), Moneyball (2011), Sanjay’s Super Team (2015) and The Good Dinosaur (2015). Danna's recent ﬁlms include Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016) and Storks (2016). YONFAN

Yonfan started out as a renowned photographer and was noted for his celebrity portraits, before he made the transition to filmmaking. He began making films in the late ‘80s and till date has directed thirteen films including A Certain Romance (1984), Story of Rose (1985), Bugis Street (1995), Bishonen (1998), Peony Pavilion (2001) and Prince of Tears (2009). He has also been on the juries of the film festivals at Busan and Sydney.

STEPHANIE ZACHAREK

Stephanie Zacharek is the ﬁlm critic for Time Magazine. She has previously worked with Boston Phoenix and was the chief ﬁlm critic for Salon.com and the Village Voice.

A graduate of Syracuse University, New York, Zacharek’s writings on books and and pop culture have also appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone and Sight and Sound. In 2010, as a part of the Berlinale Talent Campus, Zacharek participated on the panel ‘Fear Eats the Soul: The State of Film Criticism’. She is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics and was a ﬁnalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism.

TOMASZ WASILEWSKI

Tomasz Wasilewski is a Polish ﬁlm director and screenwriter. His 2016 ﬁlm United States of Love was shown at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival where he won the Silver Bear for Best Script.

He is considered one of the most interesting voice in the young Polish directing scene and his cinema is characterized by a minimalistic style featuring psychological portraits created with precision and sensitiveness. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

MIGUEL GOMES HEAD OF JURY

Miguel Gomes studied cinema at the Lisbon Theatre and Film School. He worked as a ﬁlm critic from 1996 to 2000.

Subsequently, he directed several short ﬁlms including the Oberhausen Short Film Festival winner Meanwhile (1999) before directing features such as The Face You Deserve (2004), Our Beloved Month Of August (2008), the Berlin FIPRESCI prize winner Tabu (2012) and Arabian Nights, a three-part feature ﬁlm that premiered in the Directors Fortnight at Cannes in 2015.

TALA HADID

Tala Hadid made her first docufeature, Sacred Poet on Pier Paolo Pasolini. Her films have screened at film festivals around the world, including Berlin and Venice and shown, among other venues, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Lincoln Center in New York, The Walker Arts Center, La Cinémathèque Française in Paris and the Photog- rapher’s Gallery in London.

Her ﬁlms have received numerous awards, including a Student Academy Award in 2005 for Tes Cheveux Noirs Ihsan. In 2015, Hadid's latest project, House in the Fields, was selected to screen as a work-in-progress at the 72nd Venice Film Festival, where it was awarded two prizes. ANURAG KASHYAP

Anurag Kashyap is an Indian film writer, director, producer. Kashyap is regarded as an auteur and postmodern filmmaker. He prefers shooting on real locations by employing guerrilla-filmmaking techniques with hidden cameras, and often makes his actors improvise their dialogues on set.

Apart from ﬁlmmaking, Kashyap serves as the Member of board of the Mumbai-based NGO, Aangan, which helps protect vulnerable children around India. He is the founder of two ﬁlm production companies: Anurag Kashyap Films, Phan- tom Films with partnership from directors Vikra- maditya Motwane and Vikas Bahl and producer Madhu Mantena.

CHRIS McDONALD

Chris McDonald is President of Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary Film Festival and Market. Hot Docs’ mandate is to advance and celebrate the art of documentary, and to provide support to doc-ﬁlmmakers.

The festival has raised over $100 million in production financing for filmmakers, and attracted an audience of over 211,000 in 2016, along with 2500+ international delegates. In addition to having raised over $8 million in production funds for filmmakers, Hot Docs opened one of the world’s first year-round doc-focused cinemas in 2012. CHRISTINE VACHON

Christine Vachon is an Independent Spirit Award and Gotham Award winner, who co-founded the production house Killer Films with partner Pamela Kofﬂer in 1995.

Over the past decade and a half, the two have produced some of the most celebrated American indie features, including Carol (2015, nominated for six Academy Awards), Far from Heaven (2002, nominated for four Academy Awards), Still Alice (2014, Academy Award winner), Boys Don’t Cry (1999, Academy Award winner), One Hour Photo (2002), Kids (1995), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2004), Happiness (1998), Velvet Goldmine (1998), Safe (1995), I Shot Andy Warhol (1996), Camp (2003), Swoon (1992) and I’m Not There (2007, Academy Award nominated).

In television, Vachon recently executive-produced the Emmy and Golden Globe winning miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011) for HBO and Z, an upcoming series on Amazon based on the life of Zelda Fitzgerald. PROGRAMMING 2016 COMPETITIVE SECTIONS

India Gold India Gold is a competition section for the Indian feature ﬁlms. Through this section, the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival with Star showcases breakthrough contemporary Indian ﬁlms produced in India this year and provides them a platform for promotion internationally.

International Competition The section is a prestigious platform that shines a spotlight on new cinematic voices. It is open to debut ﬁlmmakers from all over the world who have ﬁlms made within one calendar year of the festival.

Dimensions Mumbai Dimensions Mumbai is a short film section that focuses on the young filmmakers of Mumbai. The section screens short films from local filmmakers under the age of 25.

NON-COMPETITIVE SECTIONS

World Cinema This section features India premieres of the best and most acclaimed ﬁlms from all over the world made in this calendar year.

India Story India Story features films by Indian filmmakers that highlight and celebrate the diversity of India. Featuring a potpourri of languages, storytelling methods and forms, films in this section spotlight talent from different regions and underline the wealth of narratives, which make up the Indian experience.

Discovering India Films in this category celebrate the Indian Diaspora and the multiple narratives of the Indian experience outside of India. The section features ﬁlmmakers of Indian origin across the world and showcases the cultural crossroads they inhabit.

Restored Classics The festival is deeply committed to honoring and preserving cinematic legacy and this section showcases digitally restored classic ﬁlms from India and around the world.

Rendezvous Rendezvous presents the best in contemporary French ﬁlmmaking.

Country Focus: Turkey The Turkish Focus in MAMI Film Festival is composed of films that represent the dynamics of Turkey and reflect different aspects of cinematic creativity. The most influential pioneers of the Turkish new wave are part of this focus along with titles by the prominent mainstream directors. SPECIAL SECTION

Half Ticket A competitive section where the most outstanding, imaginative and compelling features and shorts; live action, documentary and animation ﬁlms for young audiences, produced in the current year for children’s jury awards.

Half Ticket Collection A non-competitive section that presents a variety of acclaimed ﬁlms to children and young adults to nurture their appetite for distinctive artistic experiences. OPENING FILM

A Death in the Gunj | Dir: Konkona Sen Sharma India | 2016 | Feature Narrative | English, Hindi, Bengali

A Death in the Gunj marks a double debut for Konkona Sensharma - as director and screenplay writer. Shot at various locations in McCluskiegunj, Jharkhand, the film is a coming-of-age story, set in the 1970s. The film revolves around a family vacation and is based on true events which are meticulously captured by Sensharma. The film is said to have been wrapped up in six weeks in March 2016.

The film sees prominent actor Vikrant Massey in the lead alongside eminent actors like Kalki Koechlin, Tillotama Shome, Gulshan Devaiah, Ranvir Shorey and yesteryear legends, Om Puri and Tanuja. Director Abhishek Chaubey who has given us cutting-edge films like Udta Punjab debuts as a producer in partnership with Honey Trehan under the banner of MacGuffin Pictures.

A Death in the Gunj revolves around Shutu (Massey) and his conflicted ideas of masculinity. He finds himself navigating the blurred lines of what is accepted in society and questions his own space within the world. The every- day callousness of the adults around him contributes to his intense feelings of isolation despite being surrounded by his family. The emotional violence that we as a society inflict upon others unwittingly is what cumulatively leads to a kind of destruction that is irrevocable. FILM CATEGORIES INDIA GOLD

, INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

DISCOVERING INDIA

FEATURE

SHORTS

In another ﬁrst for the city’s premier ﬁlm festival, the 18th Jio MAMI Mumbai Festival with Star in partnership with Oxfam India is introducing “Best Film on Gender Equality” - a special award that focuses on the sensitive portrayal of women in cinema.

The award is open to the latest Indian ﬁlms programmed in the festival. The nominees will be chosen by the curators of MAMI and a special jury that will choose the winner. The award will be given out at the ofﬁcial closing ceremony of the festival on October 27, 2016.

Oxfam India is a non-proﬁt organization working to end the violence against women and girls.

MASTERCARD ‘BEST INDIAN FEMALE FILMMAKER 2016’

Mastercard takes immense pride in recognizing the MAMI Best Female Filmmaker Award for the year 2016. As a company, we believe in empowering women. Through this award, we applaud and salute women for their talent and the skill that they bring to the art of ﬁlm making.

As a leading technology company in the global payments industry, diversity is embedded in Mastercard’s working culture to foster innovation, collaboration and new ideas. Mastercard has been bringing more women professionals in the workforce and has been working towards encouraging women technologists to take leadership roles. It has long devoted resources to understanding women and aiding their empowerment across divisions.

Mastercard launched the Girls4Tech, its signature education program to drive interest and encourage STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers for middle school girls in India. The program was launched in April 2015 in India, first country in Asia Pacific to benefit from MasterCard’s Signature STEM Program.

Mastercard’s Girls4Tech education programme connects with schools in Europe, Asia Paciﬁc, USA, the Middle East and South America showcasing the importance of STEM subjects and how they can lead to some impressive careers. Mastercard employees serve as mentors to the students and demonstrate how STEM principles are applied to the global payments sector, in exciting areas such as digital convergence and big data. ROYAL STAG LARGE SHORT FILMS

Royal stag Barrel Select Large Short Films (LSF) is a portal that is the hub of Indian short films. It gives the audience the window to enjoy short films made by large directors. It gives budding film makers a platform to showcase their short films with large ideas. It is a vehicle to submit Indian short film makers to the international festival circuit.

LSF is a parallel platform for indie ﬁlms that can take co-creation with social media to the next level. The platform Pioneered under the aegis of Royal Stag Mega Movies, and Royal Stag Large short Film gains the ﬁrst mover advantage in a medium that will be the future of entertainment.

LSF has released films of well-known Bollywood directors and gives opportunity to upcoming directors. In recent times, Platform has been built on identified core attribute of RSBS - ‘Keep Perfecting’ and hence now targeting a more refined and evolved RSBS audience. Adhiraj Bose is the face of the platform and platform already showcased a digital film on how to make “perfect films”. BOARD OF TRUSTEES KIRAN RAO CHAIRPERSON Kiran Rao is an acclaimed director and producer (Peepli Live, Delhi Belly). Her directorial debut, Dhobi Ghat, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was later screened at the London Film Festival and the Shanghai International Film Festival.

NITA M. AMBANI FOUNDER & CHAIRPERSON, RELIANCE FOUNDATION & COCHAIR Nita Ambani is an educationist, philanthropist, businesswoman and a noted proponent of sports. Nita is the Founder Chairperson of Reliance Foundation, which has impacted the lives of over seven million people. She provides leadership to 14 schools and is the Founder Chairperson of Dhirubhai Ambani International School, India’s No. 1 International School. She heads the Sir H.N. Reliance Foundation Hospital, a state-of-the-art multi-specialty hospital in Mumbai.

Nita is the architect of Mumbai Indians, which won the IPL trophy in 2013 and 2015 and the Champions League T20

ANUPAMA CHOPRA FESTIVAL DIRECTOR Anupama Chopra is a ﬁlm critic, television anchor and book author. She has been writing about Bollywood since 1993. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Hindustan Times, The Los Angeles Times and Vogue (India). FARHAN AKHTAR Farhan Akhtar shot into prominence with his directorial debut Dil Chahta Hai (2001) and followed it up with Lakshya (2004) and Don (2006). As an actor, he was noticed for his performances in Karthik Calling Karthik (2010), Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011), Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013), and Wazir (2016). He has also produced ﬁlms such as Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd. (2007), Rock On! (2008) and Fukrey (2013).

KARAN JOHAR The multi-faceted Karan wears many caps with ease. Besides being an acclaimed director and one of the most inﬂuential men in the industry today, Karan is also a television personality, a talk show host, a costume designer and the latest feather in his cap is that of being an actor. His talk show Koffee with Karan has the distinction of being the most watched English talk show on Indian television.

VIKRAMADITYA MOTWANE Vikramaditya Motwane began his career in ﬁlmmaking by assisting Sanjay Leela Bhansali on Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Devdas (2002). He also served as an assistant to directors Deepa Mehta and Anurag Kashyap.

His directorial debut Udaan (2010) was screened as part of the Un Certain Regard section at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. He later directed the Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha-starrer Lootera (2013) and co-founded Phantom Films with Madhu Mantena, Anurag Kashyap and Vikas Bahl.

DEEPIKA PADUKONE Deepika is one of Bollywood's most successful and popular actors. Her films such as Cocktail, Goliyon Ki Raasleela: Ram-Leela and Finding Fanny have been critical and commer- cial successes. RITEISH DESHMUKH Riteish Deshmukh debuted as an actor in 2003 with Tujhe Meri Kasam and since then has starred in a diverse array of films such as Bluffmaster (2005), Darna Zaroori Hai (2006), Rann (2010), Housefull (2010), Ek Villain (2014) and Banjo (2016). He has also ventured into film production with Ravi Jadhav’s Balak Palak (2013), Lai Bhaari (2014)and Mahesh Limaye’s Yellow (2014), a few of the most acclaimed films of recent times.

AJAY BIJLI Ajay Bijli’s passion for movies led him to set up PVR Cinemas in 1995. The largest multiplex chain in India has unassailable lead in the number of screens over competitors. Clearly, Mr Bijli transformed the way millions of Indians consume entertainment content over the past two-and-a-half decades. As an industry leader of Indian ﬁlm exhibition, Ajay is on the Board of Trustees of the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) and the founding member of FICCI Multiplex Association.

SIDDHARTH ROY KAPUR Siddharth started his journey in the Indian ﬁlm industry when he joined UTV in Mumbai in 2005, as Senior Vice President, Marketing & Communications for the Group. He led the marketing efforts behind multiple path breaking ﬁlms, including the cult blockbuster Rang De Basanti and the sleeper hit Khosla Ka Ghosla, both of which released in 2006 and started a new trend in the way movies were marketed in India.

MANISH MUNDRA Manish Mundra is a producer and the founder of Drishyam Films. After a chance interaction with Rajat Kapoor on Twitter in 2013, Manish agreed to finance Ankhon Dekhi. The film went on to win three Filmfare Awards and three Screen Awards, and there has no looking back for the corporate leader-turned-film producer. Since that fateful year, Manish has pursued his passion for content-driven cinema with a single-minded dedication. ISHA AMBANI Is a director at Reliance Jio and Reliance Retail. She is currently involved in launching Jio, Reliance industries' latest venture into technology in India. Previously, she served as a business analyst at McKinsey and Company's New York office. She graduated from Yale University (2013) with a double major in Psychology and South Asian Studies. At Yale she served as president of the South Asian Society. Ms. Ambani remains actively interested in South Asian issues and is particularly interested in the field of education.

ZOYA AKHTAR She is a prominent screenwriter and director in the Indian film fraternity having recently directed the recent box office hit "Dil Dhadakne Do" which was critically acclaimed. In 2011 she directed the feature ''Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara', another multi starrer that won people’s hearts and in 2009 she made her directorial debut with Luck by Chance. Apart from having one foot in the feature world, she spent a good number of years in advertising as well - from being an extremely efficient 1st AD and running the show on set for the biggest Indian as well as international brands.

VISHAL BHARDWAJ Vishal Bhardwaj is a multiple National Film Award winning writer, producer, music composer and director. After com- posing memorable soundtracks for films such as Maachis (1996), Satya (1998), Godmother (1999) and Hu Tu Tu (1999), Bhardwaj made his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed children’s film Makdee (2002). Since then, he has directed several acclaimed films such as Maqbool (2003), Omkara (2006), Kaminey (2009) and Haider(2014), which won him the National Film Award for Best Director. He has also produced well-received films such as Dedh Ishqiya (2014) and Talvar (2015).

ANAND MAHINDRA Anand G Mahindra is Chairman of the US $16.9 billion Mahin- dra Group which is today one of India’s top industrial houses. The Mahindra Group is a socially and environmental- ly responsible global federation of companies with a leading presence in each sector in which it is present. Mahindra is present across the spectrum from Agri-business to Aero- space and is now entering new areas like renewables. ANURAG KASHYAP Anurag Kashyap is an eminent filmmaker. Having started his career as a screenwriter, he was first noted for the screenplay of Satya, which he co-wrote with Saurabh Shukla. His credits as a writer include Kaun (1999), Shool (1999), Yuva (2004) and Water (2005). He made his directorial debut with Paanch (2003) and has since then directed films such as Black Friday (2007), Dev D (2009), Gulaal (2009), Gangs Of Wasseypur Part 1 and Part 2 (2012), Ugly (2014) and Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016). Anurag has also produced films such as Aamir (2008), Udaan (2010), Hasee Toh Phasee (2014) and Udta Punjab (2016).

DIBAKAR BANERJEE Dibakar Banerjee is a film director, screenwriter and producer. He started his career in advertising, but quickly established himself as a filmmaker of repute with his first two features, Khosla Ka Ghosla(2006) and Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!(2008), both of which won the National Film Awards for Best Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. Later, he went on to direct Shanghai(2012) and Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015). He also produced Kanu Behl’s debut feature Titli (2015), which was featured in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

ROHAN SIPPY Rohan Sippy is a filmmaker who has directed popular films like Kuch Naa Kaho, Bluffmaster, Dum Maaro Dum and Nautanki Saala. As a producer his credits include films such as Taxi 9211, The President Is Coming, and Chandni Chowk to China. He also writes for a variety of publications, including India Today, Mid-Day & Man's World, and has served as a columnist for the Indian Express. THANK YOU