NaanSense Radio on “Pause” Indefinitely….

After it’s debut show on July 1st, 2007 and after 39 episodes…NaanSense Radio is currently on “pause” and will hopefully be resurrected once I return from India!

Check out this article about us in The Public Asian.

Special thanks to all of the co-hosts (even if you were just on for 5 minutes)- Nikhil Tilwalli, Wasim Rahman, Jay Subramaniam, Neha Singhal, Deesha Mago, Slava Kupersetin, Brandon Nero, Ramya Punnoose, Christian Melendez.

NaanSense Radio has featured interviews with:

Artists/Musicians/Producers/Actors

• Raghav – international pop sensation
• The Bilz/Kashif – Canadian pop stars
• Rudresh Mahanthappa – jazz artist
• Niraj Chag – UK fusion artist
• Vishal Kanwar – local musician and activist
• Gaurav Venkateswar – local musician
• Aakash Mittal – jazz musician
• Gauri Gill – photographer
• Kavitha Rajagopalan – author, Muslims of Metropolis
• Valerie Kaur – producer, Divided We Fall
• Andrew Mendelson – sitar player, documentary
• Mohit Chauhan – singer (Silk Route, AR Rahman songs)
• Kiran Ahluwalia – singer
• Vijay Iyer – jazz muscian
• Anup Sugunan – actor, writer, producer
• Prasanna, Carnatic electric guitarist
• Bageshree Vaze – Indo Canadaian dancer and composer
• Fatima Shah -DC production co-coordinator of Royal Kill

Authors

• Navdeep Kathuria – Editor in Chief, ABCDLady magazine
• Manil Suri – author Death of Vishnu, Age of Shiva
• Vikas Swarup – author Q&A (Slumdog Millionaire)
• Sandeep Sood – lead writer badmash.tv
• Monica Bhide – acclaimed food writer
• Karan Mahajan – author of Family Planning

Cool People Doing Cool Things aka Activists

• Nipun Mehta – CharityFocus.org
• Dr. Sanjayan – conservationist
• Dhru Purohit – www.welikeitraw.com
• Rahul Brown – www.inspire-now.org
• Tejas Patel – calling from Iraq
• Tip Fallon – founder, I Got Heart
• Shahid Bhuttar – community activist
• Sunaina Maira – professor
• Pulin Modi – street team, PETA
• Ashish Kothari – environmental activist & professor

People in Politics

• Ashwin Madia – candidate for MN Congress
• Hrishi Karthikeyan – founder, South Asians for Obama
• Suresh Kumar – South Asians for McCain