Interview Guests

Artists/Musicians/Producers/Actors/Entertainers

• Jay Sean – international pop sensation (UPCOMING)
• Josh (Rup) – pop band
• Shammi Pithia – musician, flutist
• Kailash Kher – playback and pop singer
• Nitin Sawhney – music producer
• Aladdin Ullah – comedian
• Rez Abbasi - fusion jazz guitaris
• 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
• 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
• Vivek Bald - documentary filmmaker

Authors

• Kavitha Rajagopalan – author, Muslims of Metropolis
• Paresh Mokashi - director of Harishchandrachi Factory
• 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
• Rachna Vohra – writer, poet, spoken word artist
• Sahar Ullah – writer and co-producer of Hijabi Monoglogues

Visionaries

• Roopal Shah – ED and co-founder of IndiCorps
• Ankur Shah – author and revolutionary of love
• Chai Shenoy – domestic violence advocate (API DVRP)
• 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
• Jyoti Mehta – my wonderful cousin
• Kate Cummings and Ankurbhai

People in Politics

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