Asia Society President Vishakha Desai

NEW YORK, August 30 2012 — On her final day at Asia Society, outgoing president Vishakha Desai looks back on her 22-year tenure with the organization.

'Aiyyaa' | First Look

Artist Aniketa Deshpande

photos by - Pratap Morey

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The Music Project : Adil and Vasundhara

Adil Manuel and Vasundhara Vidalur are a Jazz/Funk/Soul duo based in New Delhi. The duo got together in January 2009 and has put together numerous collaborative performances in India and abroad. Vasundhara sings Gospel, RnB , Funk, Jazz and Soul. Since 2004, she has staged over 70 concerts and a musical with Artistes Unlimited

Adil Manuel is an active musician in the Delhi circuit and a power-house guitarist. Adil has been playing professionally for over 10 years with bands like Asphyxia, MRP and Olio and the Rock Opera.

Adil and Vasundhara also spearhead a collaborative Jazz - RnB outfit Adil Manuel : GuitarsVasundhara Vidalur : VocalsSaurabh Suman : Bass

The Skoda Prize for Indian Contemporary Art 2011-2012

Tayrn Simon | Contemporary Photography in India

Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII

May 2–September 3, 2012

The Robert and Joyce Menschel Photography Gallery, third floor

The work was produced over a four-year period (2008–11), during which the artist travelled around the world researching and documenting bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the 18 “chapters” that make up the work, external forces of territory, power, circumstance, or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. The subjects Simon documents include victims of genocide in Bosnia, test rabbits infected with a lethal disease in Australia, the first woman to hijack an aircraft, and the living dead in India. Her collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate.

About Taryn Simon: 

Taryn Simon (born 1975) is an American photographer. She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. She was born in New York.