A. R. Rahman

A. R. Rahman

male, 42 years old
From chennai, A. S. Dileep Kumar, Padma Shri recipient, all-time top selling recording artist, film soundtrack, film score…SouthAsian
Allah Rakha Rahman is an internationally renowned musician, best known for composing film scores and soundtracks. In a career spanning over a...
Russell Peters

Russell Peters

male, 39 years old
Indian-Canadian, Indo-Canadian, South Asia, dubai, kolkata, arab…south, SouthAsian, Asian
Russell Dominic Peters (born 1970) is an Indian-Canadian stand-up comic from Brampton, Ontario, Canada. His parents are originally from Bombay and...
Talvin Singh

Talvin Singh

male, 39 years old
madonna, English, musician, Drum and Bass, tabla, drum n bass…SouthAsian, Asian Underground, Asian Underground musician
Talvin Singh (Matharoo) (born in 1970 in Leytonstone, London, England) is a British DJ and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of...
Kiran Desai

Kiran Desai

female, 38 years old
Hollins University alumni, Indian women writer, National Book Critics Circle, writer, Indian American, Indian…SouthAsian
Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author who is a citizen of India and a Permanent Resident of the United States. Her novel "The...
M. F. Husain

M. F. Husain

male, 94 years old
artist, SouthAsian, painter, Muslim, Indian, Padma Shri recipient
Maqbool Fida Husain, (born September 17, 1915, Pandharpur) popularly known as M F Husain, is one of India's best known artists. According to Forbes...
Mohammad Yousuf

Mohammad Yousuf

male, 35 years old
Sir Vivian Richards, West Indian, Wisden Cricketer of the Year, Pakistani national cricket team, SouthAsian, cricket captain…ACC Asian XI ODI cricketer
Mohammad Yousuf (born 27 August, 1974, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan) is a Pakistani cricketer who has been a member of the Pakistani national cricket...
M. G. Vassanji

M. G. Vassanji

male, 59 years old
Afro-Asian-Canadian, university of nairobi, Order of Canada, Tanzanian, immigrant to Canada, SouthAsian…The Toronto South Asian Review, South Asian Canadian
M.G. Vassanji, C.M. is an Afro-Asian-Canadian novelist. Although of South Asian heritage, Vassanji grew up in East Africa--he was born in Nairobi,...
Sharmila Tagore

Sharmila Tagore

female, 62 years old (Mississippi, United States)
Filmfare Awards winner, film actor, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, SouthAsian, Pataudi, bengali
Sharmila Tagore is a renowned Indian film actress from Bengal, who as of April 2005 heads the Indian Film Censor Board. In December 2005 she was...
Mary Anne Mohanraj

Mary Anne Mohanraj

female, 38 years old
tamil, erotica, Master of Fine Arts, Clarion Workshop, SouthAsian, Strange Horizons
Mary Anne Mohanraj , Consulting Editor Mary Anne Mohanraj is the author of BODIES IN MOTION, a set of Sri Lankan-American linked stories, covering...
Nicholas Dirks

Nicholas Dirks

male
Yale University, SouthAsian, South Asia, Scandal of Empire, Wesleyan University, madras
Nicholas Dirks is the Franz Boas Profressor of History and Anthropology at Columbia University, dean of the university's faculty, and Vice...