{"id":269776,"date":"2024-10-21T22:01:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T05:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=269776"},"modified":"2024-11-05T13:25:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T21:25:44","slug":"b-crush-thought-provoking-meaningful-conversations-sala-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/b-crush-thought-provoking-meaningful-conversations-sala-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"B.Crush: Thought-Provoking and Meaningful Conversations at Stanford University \u2013 SALA 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(Top, l &#8211; r) \u201cMirzapur\u201d director Anand Iyer; an author talks to an attendee during a book signing event (Janam A. Gupta\/Siliconeer). (Bottom) Bollywood director Imtiaz Ali (Artforum).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Poetry, literature, book signings, paintings, photographs, Mirzapur director Anand Iyer, legendary Imtiaz Ali, and Shashi Tharoor\u2026 The list of artists goes on and on.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yep, it was the 2024 SALA Festival. The South Asian Literature and Art Festival was held on the prestigious grounds of Stanford University on September 28-29.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Local South Asian artists showcased their best works and interacted with art enthusiasts.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Poets and authors exchanged dialogue and engaged in book-signing. Local chefs and restaurateurs discussed the behind-the-scenes of culinary arts.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On a sweet note, legendary movie director Imtiaz Ali and TV director Anand Iyer engaged with fans.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Remember \u201cJab We Met\u201d and \u201cTamasha\u201d? We can thank Imtiaz Ali for those childhood memories.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the OTT world, Anand Iyer rocked us with \u201cMirzapur.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The SALA Festival was organized by Art Forum SF in coalition with the Stanford Center for South Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Top, l &#8211; r) \u201cMirzapur\u201d director Anand Iyer; an author talks to an attendee during a book signing event (Janam A. Gupta\/Siliconeer). (Bottom) Bollywood director Imtiaz Ali (Artforum). Poetry, literature, book signings, paintings, photographs, Mirzapur director Anand Iyer, legendary Imtiaz Ali, and Shashi Tharoor\u2026 The list of artists goes on and on.\u00a0 Yep, it was&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/b-crush-thought-provoking-meaningful-conversations-sala-2024\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64189,13,21,11744],"tags":[621,64165,64167,64168,3505,64169,140,11427,6686,15739,36520,4396,64166,55996],"class_list":["post-269776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-culture","category-entertainment","category-india-south-asia","tag-tamasha","tag-2024-sala-festival","tag-anand-iyer","tag-book-signing","tag-imtiaz-ali","tag-jab-we-met","tag-literature","tag-mirzapur","tag-paintings","tag-photographs","tag-poetry","tag-shashi-tharoor","tag-south-asian-literature-and-art-festival","tag-south-asians"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}