The 2002 Indian Diaspora Playwrights Festival
Staged Readings of Four New Plays

IAAC Film Festival: The Indian Diaspora.
Clearview Cinema, 239East 59th Street, New York.
All screenings were followed by discussions between the filmmaker & a moderator as well as Q&A with the audience.
Films included

A Dramatic Reading from Vijay Tendulkar's "Kamla" by Vijay Tendulkar
Sundaram Tagore Gallery, 137 Greene St, Houston, NYC

Staged Reading of Shashi Tharoor's "Riot" by Shabana Azmi, Shashi Tharoor, Madhur Jaffrey and Tunku Vardarajan.
Adapted & Directed by Michael Johnson Chase.
Followed by an Open discussion of the Babri Masjid/Ram Janmabhoomi controversy moderated by Aroon Shivdasani.
6:30-8:30 pm. WPI, Swayduck Auditorium, NYC.

Gala Benefit Premiere of Ismail Merchant's "The Mystic Masseur", Paris Cinema, NYC.
For American India Foundation Fund for literacy in India. Guest of Honour President Bill Clinton.