The current New Yorker is a brown one indeed, with a lead story on CIA torture which covers Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and quotes Asra Nomani; a big piece on the 60th anniversary of Partition by Pankaj Mishra; ‘Magda Mandela,’ a short story by Hari Kunzru; and this Bollywood + bhangra evening at Celebrate Brooklyn:

Aug. 10: The “Bollywood in Brooklyn`” night features a screening of the 1977 Hindi musical Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin and a performance by DJ Rekha, who, for the past decade, has been sharing the joys of updated Punjabi folk music with her Basement Bhangra parties at S.O.B.’s… Prospect Park Band Shell, Prospect Park W. at 9th St. [Link]

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