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2010 UK Asian Music Awards Winners
The Royal Festival Hall hosted the British Asian Awards on 11th March 2010. A night filled with the glitz, glam and buzz featuring popular Brit-Asian performers, winners of awards and an air of a proud industry still going strong despite the tough times.
DESIblitz met up with many of the artists from the Brit-Asian music scene [...]
Simply Rahat Concert ~ Free Tickets Competition
DESIblitz in association with Saregama are proud to present a competition for you to win free tickets to Rahat Fateh Ali Khans forthcoming concert Simply Rahat. The tickets are for the Manchester concert on Friday 19 March 2010, at the Palace Theatre, Manchester.
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was born in 1974 in Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan, into [...]
Tongues On Fire Film Festival
The ‘Tongues on Fire’ film festival celebrates South Asian cinema. The festival, running from 5th March to 14th March, starts with an Opening Gala at the Park Lane Sheraton, Piccadilly Circus, London, UK.
The opening ceremony is introduced by British TV and film actors Rizwan Ahmed, also known as Riz MC, and Neerja Naik from [...]
‘My Name is Khan’ in the UK
Shahrukh Khan visited the UK on a major promotion for his film ‘My Name is Khan,’ joined by Bollywood co-actress Kajol Devgan and the film’s director Karan Johar.
The film supported by Hollywood’s Fox Searchlight distribution deal is getting publicity at a very high level with unprecedented campaigns on television and radio.
Prior to the UK visit, [...]
Nitin Sawhney acoustic for Svapnagata
Nitin Sawhney is a critically acclaimed music producer in the British Asian music scene today. He has managed to be both award winning and prolific in his musical output. His music is a blend of club beats and world music influences. He has developed a niche for himself in the Asian chill [...]
RDB and Jay Sean win Urban Awards
RDB and Jay Sean won awards at the UK Urban Music Awards. The awards were held on 1st November 2009 in London, UK. The event was star studded affair with phenomenal performances by Sway, Brick and Lace and Candy Girl.
RDB being out of the UK most of the time were not at the awards ceremony [...]
British Asian Sports Awards 2009
The winners of the British Asian Sports Awards were revealed at a gala event held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London on Saturday 21st February. The coveted Sports Personality of the year award went to cricketer Samit Patel.
The award was collected by Mr Patel, father of Samit Patel. Samit is currently representing England in the [...]
Buddhist Kathina Ceremony
2,500 years ago, a group of monks set off to visit the Buddha in Northern India, but were prevented from arriving at their destination by the onset of heavy rains. When the Buddha heard of their fate and disappointment, he sent them a gift of cloth he had acquired from a lay person, and [...]
Too black for IPL?
Interesting and astonishing news broke out from the Indian Premier League regarding complaints from two cheerleaders who were racially discriminated for being black. Dancers, Ellesha Newton, 22, and Sherinne Anderson, 25, both, from the UK, claim they were stopped from going on stage and abused by an Indian organiser ahead of a [...]