Arts & Entertainment

Bollywood Berkeley: 'A Coming Together of Public and Private Selves for Indian-Americans'

This month's local showcase of Bollywood-style dancing was intensely competitive.

Local journalist Lonny Shavelson turns the spotlight on Bollywood Berkeley 2013 in a recent article on The World website.

The Indian dance contest "was so tensely competitive it should have been called the Bhangra Bowl," Shavelson writes.

A media professor says the phenomenon represents a "coming together of the public and private selves" of young Indian-Americans.

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You may read the complete article here. The video report attached above is from India Waves TV Network.


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