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The luminous Tannishtha Chatterjee talks about her role in "Brick Lane," the film adaptation of Monica Ali's novel about a Bangladeshi family in Britain. Chatterjee spoke after a special screening of the film one day before its US release.
Manu Narayan (center), who co-stars with Mike Meyers in "The Love Guru," shares a meal with Diana Rohini LaVigne, Sree Sreenivasan, and Sugi Ganeshananthan.
Nikhil Deogun, international editor of the Wall Street Journal, speaks at the opening plenary session.
Amitava Kumar leads his popular seminar on long-form narrative writing.
Photographers Dipti Vaidya of The Tennessean and Adam Huggins of The New York Times, with Annalisa Merelli, at the reception at the new New York Times building.
Neil Katz and Jigar Mehta at the Times reception.
Kiran Khalid, creator of the documentary "We Are Not Free" about press freedom in Pakistan, moderates the discussion "Pakistan in Peril."
Human rights lawyer and blogger Anil Kalhan talks about "Pakistan in Peril."
Jennifer 8. Lee of The New York Times never goes anywhere without her Mac.
Sudipa Shrestha, Divya Gupta, and Anup Kaphle at the reception before the gala.
Surendra K. Kaushik sports his Rajasthani finery at the gala.
Roopa Singh is all about attitude.
Reena Ninan, Fox News' Middle East Correspondent, emcees the gala with Hari Sreenivasan of CBS News.
Veena Merchant accepts the plaque honoring the late Gopal Raju as he is inducted into the SAJA Hall of Fame.
Zain Verjee, CNN's State Department correspondent, gives the keynote at the gala.
Aisha Sultan of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, wins a ring at the raffle.
Sonny Mehta, Shelley Rubin, Gita Mehta, Donald Rubin, Roopa Unnikrishnan, and Sree Sreenivasan
Melanie Huff, Monika Mathur, Deepti Hajela, Sugi Ganeshananthan (with Sprite), and Roopa Unnikrishnan
Devan Ganeshananthan and Sandeep Junnarkar at the brunch at Mint.
Radha Vij, brunch chairman, at Mint
Comic Dan Nainan riffs on media errors at the brunch and shows off the Washington Post article about his the new comedy club he's opening in the Washington, D.C. area. It's going to offer only "clean comedy," he says.
