Amrita Singh HOME Collection Launch - New York Times

Jewelry designer Amrita Singh launched a home decor line thick with Ganesh and Buddha statues Wednesday night at a splashy party at a vacant penthouse apartment at Trump Plaza on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The party was hosted by the non-profit organization South Asian Young Women Entrepreneurs, or SAY WE.

The bi-level space had panoramic views of the East River and Empire State Building and was decorated with pieces from Ms. Singh's collection called "Home." Ms. Singh has modernized the deities by adorning them with cut mosaic glass in silver and red, and says they were inspired by a trip to Bali. "Every home there had a temple so I got the idea to bring the East to the West in a fun way," she said. Read More

Amrita Singh HOME Collection Launch - Economic Times

Indian American jewellery and accessories designer Amrita Singh expanded her repertoire of works by launching a home decor collection at the recently concluded fashion week in New York.

Sponsored by Wells Fargo and hosted by the South Asian Young Women Entrepreneurs, more than a hundred guests packed the Trump Plaza Penthouse, in Manhattan, at 'The Amrita Singh Penthouse' event which showcased the designer's hand-crafted, life-size and miniature, mosaic Buddha and Ganesh statues, along with special pieces of jewellery and accessories from Singh's illustrious, decade-long career. Read More

Amrita Singh HOME Collection Launch - India Post

NEW YORK: More than 200 New Yorkers from the city's finance, fashion, and business communities packed the Trump Plaza Penthouse the night of Feb 9 to celebrate the launch of Indian jewelry and accessories designer Amrita Singh's brand new home collection. Sponsored by Wells Fargo and hosted by South Asian Young Women Entrepreneurs (SAY WE), 'The Amrita Singh Penthouse' event showcased the designer's hand-crafted, life-size and miniature, mosaic Buddha and Ganesh statues, along with special pieces of jewelry and accessories from Singh's illustrious, decade-long career. Read More

Amrita Singh HOME Collection Launch - Asiance Magazine

More than 200 VIPs of the city's finance, fashion, and business communities packed the Trump Plaza Penthouse Wednesday night to celebrate the launch of Indian jewelry and accessories designer Amrita Singh's brand new home collection. Sponsored by Wells Fargo and hosted by South Asian Young Women Entrepreneurs (SAY WE), 'The Amrita Singh Penthouse' event showcased the designer's hand-crafted, life-size and miniature, mosaic Buddha and Ganesh statues, along with special pieces of jewelry and accessories from Singh's illustrious, decade-long career.

"As a woman and a jewelry designer, I understand what it means to adorn a woman's body with my pieces," said Singh. "Now, I'm working with a larger canvas – a woman's home, and there is no better way to engage a woman's soul than to help her adorn her home." Singh's inspiration for her home collection came to her during a recent trip to Bali. "More than 90 percent of the homes in Bali have their own, private temples. I wanted to bring some of that Eastern spirituality back to the West with my Buddhas and Ganeshas."Read More

Amrita Singh HOME Collection Launch - Aristocrat Magazine

Angelina Jolie was in NYC in January doing her first ever live video chat with her fans on Thursday, Jan. 12. The video chat was done via facebook.

The chat was about her Directorial Debut in a new movie to which she also wrote the screen-play for entitled, "In the Land of Blood & Honey."

Me being a huge fan of Jolie, I am noticing this big step into the higher ranks of hollywood. She is already my favorite lead acrtress for so many Action-Drama movies including Lara Croft Parts 1 & 2, Original SIn, and Wanted, to just name a few; Jolie is now promoting the film, "In the Land of Blood & Honey:"Read More

Amrita Singh HOME Collection Launch - AVS TV

New York, NY - February 9, 2012: More than 200 VIPs of the city's finance, fashion, and business communities packed the Trump Plaza Penthouse Wednesday night to celebrate the launch of Indian jewelry and accessories designer Amrita Singh's brand new home collection. Sponsored by Wells Fargo and hosted by South Asian Young Women Entrepreneurs (SAY WE), 'The Amrita Singh Penthouse' event showcased the designer's hand-crafted, life-size and miniature, mosaic Buddha and Ganesh statues, along with special pieces of jewelry and accessories from Singh's illustrious, decade-long career.

"As a woman and a jewelry designer, I understand what it means to adorn a woman's body with my pieces," said Singh. "Now, I'm working with a larger canvas – a woman's home, and there is no better way to engage a woman's soul than to help her adorn her home." Singh's inspiration for her home collection came to her during a recent trip to Bali. "More than 90 percent of the homes in Bali have their own, private temples. I wanted to bring some of that Eastern spirituality back to the West with my Buddhas and Ganeshas."Read More

Amrita Singh HOME Collection Launch - India West

More than 200 VIPs of the city's finance, fashion and business communities packed the Trump Plaza Penthouse Feb. 8 to celebrate the launch of Indian jewelry and accessories designer Amrita Singh's new home collection.

Sponsored by Wells Fargo and hosted by South Asian Young Women Entrepreneurs, "The Amrita Singh Penthouse" event showcased the designer's hand-crafted, life-size and miniature mosaic Buddha and Ganesh statues, along with special pieces of jewelry and accessories from Singh's decade-long career.

"As a woman and a jewelry designer, I understand what it means to adorn a woman's body with my pieces," Singh said in a press release. "Now, I'm working with a larger canvas – a woman's home, and there is no better way to engage a woman's soul than to help her adorn her home."Read More

Amrita Singh HOME Collection Launch - Travel and Leisure

I've long been a fan of Amrita Singh's glittering jewelry, and I'm hardly the only one—Jennifer Lopez, Katie Homes, and Anne Hathaway are devotees of her ornate necklaces and gem-studded bangles. So when I heard Singh was launching a new home collection with an exclusive party at a penthouse suite at the Trump Plaza, I was intrigued. Would Singh's aesthetic translate into blinged-out interior décor?

The swanky setting turned out to be the perfect showcase for Singh's handcrafted mosaic statues in dazzling shades of crimson, tangerine, and turquoise. Singh, glowing in a pink Robert Rodriguez dress, said a trip to Bali last year inspired her to turn her attention away from focusing solely on jewelry—she was amazed that beautiful home temples were so commonplace there, and wanted to bring some of the spirituality of the east back to her clientele in the west.

Pieces range from a massive full-size Buddha to a seated Ganesh (above); my favorite was a red mosaic bust of Buddha perched atop a mirrored tower (I do happen to collect disco balls, though, so you'll understand my bias). Amrita Singh's home collection is now available on her website. Read More

Devi's Closet - Huffington Post

New York fashionista Meera Patel's interest in Indian fashion designers piqued when she was planning her own wedding a few years ago -- now, her passion has become an e-rental business called Devi's Closet.

"A typical Indian wedding last three to four days, and you dare not repeat an outfit," says Patel. "I was so bogged down with picking and buying outfits for my family, relatives and friends that I thought 'I wish I could just rent Indian wedding clothes online.'"

That's how Devi's Closet began. The new fashion portal enables women and men to RENT one-of-a-kind, South Asian designer outfits (direct from the runway shows of Lakme and Wills Fashion Weeks in India) at a fraction of the retail cost.Read More

Devi's Closet - Divanee

Devi's Closet is the latest in a series of US-based companies that mimics the Rent the Runway model for South Asian wear.

What sets Devi's Closet apart from other sari-type rental services? Not only do they have traditional outfits, but they have fusion dresses that we absolutely love! Read More

United Breweries - New York Times

Growing up in a Punjabi family in which drinking whiskey is a ritual as sacrosanct as a religious ceremony, watching my father, my dadaji (grandfather), and all the uncles from my parents' social circle sip a glass pre-dinner while nibbling on salted nuts is a memory ingrained in me from my early childhood in India. Though they normally stuck to Scottish brands like Johnny Walker and Glenfiddich, a handful of Indian makers like Royal Challenge worked their way into the mix. When we moved to the United States, the lack of Indian whiskeys meant that these memories were only resurrected on trips back to Delhi.

More than 25 years later, that's about to change, as Royal Challenge becomes the first classic Indian whiskey to launch stateside (Bangalore's Amrut Distilleries, which produces a more Scottish-style whiskey started shipping to the United States in 2010). Royal Challenge is made by the Bangalore-based United Breweries Group, which also owns Kingfisher Beer and, like flailing Kingfisher airlines, is controlled by Vijay Mallya. The whiskey has quietly been sold in more than 300 stores in New York, New Jersey and Chicago for the past four months. Read More

American University of Antigua - Huffington Post

Select American University of Antigua AUA) College of Medicine students will leave their idyllic surroundings in the Caribbean this spring and immerse themselves into the hustle and bustle of packed emergency rooms in India for some "in-the-field" training. AUA has just signed affiliation agreements with two respected healthcare facilities, King Edward Medical (KEM) Hospital in Mumbai and the Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad.

As part of its mission to offer world-class educations and opportunities to students of all backgrounds, American University of Antigua (AUA) would like to acknowledge the accomplishments of three College of Medicine students of Indian descent: alumnus Dr. Jesse Gill and currently enrolled students Rahul Bhagat and Rheena Patel. All three have excelled as medical students and physicians, serving as inspirations and role models to their colleagues. Read More

UB Group - Huffington Post

Close to 200 VIPs from New York City's finance, fashion and business communities packed the Trump Plaza Penthouse Midtown recently to celebrate the launch of Indian jewelry and accessories designer Amrita Singh's brand-new home collection

Sponsored by Wells Fargo and hosted by South Asian Young Women Entrepreneurs (SAY WE), "The Amrita Singh Penthouse" event showcased the designer's hand-crafted, life-size and miniature mosaic Buddha and Ganesh statues, along with special pieces of jewelry and accessories from Singh's illustrious, decade-long career. Read More

UB Group - International Business Times

Vijay Mallya, the beleaguered chairman of The United Breweries (UB) Group and Kingfisher Airlines, has something to cheer about after a long time: One of his flagship brands in the liquor business, Antiquity Whisky, introduced recently at select stores in the United States, has bagged the silver award in the Spirits Tasting competition at the largest liquor convention in the world, the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America Conference, which concluded in Las Vegas on Thursday.

American United Beer & Spirits (UBS), the exclusive U.S. importer and distributor of The UB Group, India's largest beverage alcohol company, introduced three spirit brands at the convention. Spirit connoisseurs got their first taste of Royal Challenge Whisky, Romanov Vodka, and Antiquity Whisky, which are currently available at select liquor stores in New York, New Jersey, and Chicago.Read More

Amrita Singh - Huffington Post

Close to 200 VIPs from New York City's finance, fashion and business communities packed the Trump Plaza Penthouse Midtown recently to celebrate the launch of Indian jewelry and accessories designer Amrita Singh's brand-new home collection

Sponsored by Wells Fargo and hosted by South Asian Young Women Entrepreneurs (SAY WE), "The Amrita Singh Penthouse" event showcased the designer's hand-crafted, life-size and miniature mosaic Buddha and Ganesh statues, along with special pieces of jewelry and accessories from Singh's illustrious, decade-long career. Read More

Wells fargo - Huffington Post

Close to 200 VIPs from New York City's finance, fashion and business communities packed the Trump Plaza Penthouse Midtown recently to celebrate the launch of Indian jewelry and accessories designer Amrita Singh's brand-new home collection

Sponsored by Wells Fargo and hosted by South Asian Young Women Entrepreneurs (SAY WE), "The Amrita Singh Penthouse" event showcased the designer's hand-crafted, life-size and miniature mosaic Buddha and Ganesh statues, along with special pieces of jewelry and accessories from Singh's illustrious, decade-long career. Read More

SAY WE - Huffington Post

Close to 200 VIPs from New York City's finance, fashion and business communities packed the Trump Plaza Penthouse Midtown recently to celebrate the launch of Indian jewelry and accessories designer Amrita Singh's brand-new home collection

Sponsored by Wells Fargo and hosted by South Asian Young Women Entrepreneurs (SAY WE), "The Amrita Singh Penthouse" event showcased the designer's hand-crafted, life-size and miniature mosaic Buddha and Ganesh statues, along with special pieces of jewelry and accessories from Singh's illustrious, decade-long career. Read More

NYIFF - Wall Street Journal

No stranger to blazing a multitude of cinematic and social trails, Shabana Azmi became the first Indian actor to receive a proclamation from the state of New York last week.

Ms. Azmi, 61, was awarded the honor for her contribution and commitment to the Big Apple's film industry, largely fueled by her involvement with the Indo-American Arts Council and its annual New York Indian Film Festival, now in its 12th year. Read More

NYIFF - NDTV

Padma Bhushan awardee Shabana Azmi has been honoured by the city of New York for her contribution to cinema and her involvement with the movie industry here, becoming the first Indian actor to receive the honour from the city.

Azmi was presented with a 'Proclamation by the City of New York' honouring her "in recognition of her great contribution to the art of cinema and for her participation with the movie industry in New York City." Read More

NYIFF - Press Trust of India

New York: Padma Bhushan awardee Shabana Azmi has been honoured by the city of New York for her contribution to cinema and her involvement with the movie industry here, becoming the first Indian actor to receive the honour from the city.

Azmi was presented with a 'Proclamation by the City of New York' yesterday honouring her "in recognition of her great contribution to the art of cinema and for her participation with the movie industry in New York City." Read More